Word: parallelling
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...made it through the first part of the test with minor problems and gathered my strength for the woolly behemoth of the parallel park, a technique Rudy had neglected to teach me until the day before. Slowly I pulled up to the car in front, slowly I turned The wheel and began backing up and slowly, ever so slowly, I backed the car into the curb, coming to a halt with a gentle, yet firm thud. My test was over...
...these explanations share the premise that the events in the Bible actually took place. A parallel line of argument holds that the Bible is made up simply of legends crafted by the Gospel writers to serve a political agenda in the early days of the church. Modern archaeology has given contemporary scholars a much richer sense of the Galilean world, the social tensions around Jesus and the political challenges his followers encountered after his Crucifixion...
...near-death experiences, and we're now going to see if we can pass the tax bill. I think, in part, the strength of it all has been that we were able to create a momentum that I think is literally unprecedented in American political history. The only parallel is F.D.R. in '33. The design worked overall, but I don't think you could sustain it. I mean, we never thought you could do 200 days. The next round has to be almost the opposite. Where this one was a function of decisive, disciplined unity, the next round...
...time period just before The X-Files, Fox has launched the eerie cyberthriller VR.5 (Fridays, 8 p.m. est). Last Wednesday the network introduced Sliders, about a charmingly disheveled physics student who creates a void in his basementthat transports him to different parallel universes every week. Elsewhere, Showtime has just launched a revival of the 1960s anthology series The Outer Limits (Sundays, 10 p.m. est), which will prey on fears of everything from alien organisms to virtual reality. These shows are joining a sizable armada of sci-fi programming already on the air, ranging from nbc's SeaQuest DSV and Earth...
...diabolical plan for a railroad complete. Although Stiles is in many ways the typical villain, he has several faces; all of them are absolutely evil. As a former hired gun, he is a twisted version of the self-made man. His current executive position and gold-lined office parallel him to the "robber barons" of the industrial age, like Carnegie, Morgan and Rockefe