Sentences with phrase «close parallel»

In fact, I can recognize a number of close parallels between the two.

It's no accident that this grim place draws close parallels with Guantanamo Bay.

This, it must be remarked, does not find a very close parallel in the Hebrew Bible, though there are not a few stories of the casting of lots, which is a form of divination of the will of the gods.

the point was not drawn on allegedly close parallels between the two models but on some general principles underlying the OT priesthood system.

Further, there are remarkably close parallels between the stories that celebrate, respectively, the birth of Jesus and the birth of Octavius (the emperor Caesar Augustus).

Furthermore, though close parallels to them are to be found in the letter of Polycarp (early second century), he does not ascribe such passages to Paul, and it has been suggested (by von Campenhausen) that Polycarp himself wrote the Pastorals.

The BAM Project proposal, and now the BRAIN Initiative, share close parallels with another biology - based «Big Science» project — the Human Genome Project (HGP), a 12 - year, $ 3 billion race to sequence the complete human genome completed a decade ago.

A much closer parallel would be dumping hundreds or even thousands of house cats into a completely unfamiliar environment, with rodents enough present to sustain only a few cats for a couple of days.

Chuck Close parallels Pop Art in his photorealism, but he appears only because his portrait of Philip Glass has such iconic status.

A brief look at Robertson seems to demonstrate closer parallel to Tasini's Times suit, not the Huffington Post, given the focus on republication in databases.

Virginia Quarterly Review digital editor Jane Friedman, formerly publisher with Writer's Digest, has noted very close parallels of several of Howey's views with her own, recorded in a 2012 discussion with McSweeney's John Warner, Interview: Jane Friedman on marketing and building an author platform.

Perhaps the closest parallel was in a case filed by federal prosecutors against Lavabit, a privacy - oriented email service used by Edward Snowden.

He found that more than 17 million were duplicates or close parallels.

FedEx, perhaps the closest parallel, had to pay a $ 228 million settlement when it lost a class action suit about the way it classified its California drivers.

Similarly, even if there were close parallels that predated Jesus» life (which there aren't), that doesn't necessarily mean that those other myths were the cause of belief about Jesus.

There is a close parallel, here, to the observation made some years ago by Sir Karl Popper concerning the «reduction» of one scientific field or one scientific theory to another.

Even the Marxist understanding of ideology finds its close parallel in Whitehead:

It is because of the close parallel with Christian existence, especially in the understanding of selfhood, that it is not possible to omit this brief discussion of Gnosticism from this book.

Having indicated both the close parallel between Gnostic and Christian existence and also the difference, I can explain why the account of this threshold crossing was omitted from the body of the book.

The closest parallel I can draw of the review is the kind of professional, vocational inquiry of any regulating college such as those for teachers, doctors or lawyers.

We might expect that the Jewish literature would provide a closer parallel to the gospel narratives, and, indeed, exorcism stories are more common here than they are in the Hellenistic literature.

A majority of political historians, I suspect, would say that his closest parallel is Wendell Willkie, another Democrat - turned - Republican businessman - turned - politician who improbably seized the GOP nomination in 1940.

One important advantage of defining theology as I have done, rather than as reasoning about God, is that it makes possible the recognition of the close parallel between the efforts to articulate Christian faith and similar efforts in such movements as Buddhism.

There is a close parallel in the interaction of metaphorical language and literal language; there is no sharp line between the two, but only a distinction which is relative, shifting, and contextdependent.31 «Man is a wolf» invites reflection not only on wolf - life characteristics of man, but also on man - like characteristics of the wolf, which is seen thereafter as more human.

The close parallel already suggested makes it reasonable to suppose, in advance of specific arguments, that our central need is for a contemporary redemptive society which will do for us what the redemptive society envisaged by Augustine did for his generation and for succeeding generations.

Marshawn Lynch, the IRL Truck Stick, is a close parallel.

The closest parallel to this vision of an early intervention society is found in the Victorian era when local authorities invested on a massive scale in public health: clean air, clean water, proper sewage treatment.

The closest parallel is France's decision to step outside the integrated military command structure of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1966.

The closest parallel would be water, electric power, telephone service, internet service, and gasoline.

There are close parallels, for in the same way as we can preferentially process external stimuli, we are also able to concentrate on the memory content that is currently the most important.

It's even conceivable (though not likely) that the mouse might be one such: the 300 pmol / mg figure cited by AH is for rats, and conceivably mice might prove a closer parallel to human aging and diabetes in this regard).

The method has close parallels to integral projection models, but focuses on a discrete characteristic (group size).

The closest parallel I can think of is Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, a game that still looks amazing in 2018 despite being 15 years old.

While I'm not sure what to have expected, the closest parallel to draw was Mario Party, and this certainly isn't that, and thank God for that.