How to Use no parallel in a Sentence
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Moreover, the bill creates no parallel right to sue to stop the counting of legally invalid votes.
— The Editors, National Review, 23 Sep. 2022 -
Rather than a religious awakening, the USA was seeing a secular surge which had no parallel after the 1960s.
— Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2012 -
Presently, there is no parallel watch list for the Mississippi River basin.
— Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2022 -
The fires unfolding in California right now have no parallel in modern times.
— Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2020 -
The supply-chain crisis, Mr. Levy contends, has no parallel in history.
— Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021 -
There is no parallel for this anywhere else in the American political system.
— Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023 -
Individuals and groups are constrained by law in ways that have no parallel in other democracies.
— Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2021 -
And there’s the organization’s description of itself as a product with no parallel.
— Jack Butler, National Review, 2 Mar. 2021 -
Wolf’s long tryout period has no parallel in the 18-year history of DHS, created after the Sept. 11 attack to protect the country from mass terrorism.
— Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2020 -
Hopefully no parallel parking is required on this particular road trip.
— Brendan Morrow, The Week, 17 Feb. 2022 -
But beyond their accounts, the only publicly available record of the proceeding — an event with sprawling political consequences and no parallel in American history — is a 32-page court transcript and drawings from three courtroom sketch artists.
— Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023 -
But Simons urged new residents to have no hesitation in seeking counseling, to remember their careers were beginning at a time with no parallel in recent memory.
— Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2021 -
Death penalty experts say the way the Trump administration is moving ahead with executions during a lame-duck period has no parallel, and that in the past, the outgoing administration would defer such cases to the incoming one.
— Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2020 -
The Tai may have brought superior agricultural techniques, and so entered into a phase of rapid population expansion into the lowland frontier, which had no parallel during the Mon and Khmer period of dominance.
— Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2011 -
Feliciano and her family have been thrust squarely into a vast social, political and economic experiment that has no parallel or precedent.
— Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2021 -
There are no parallel federal authorities for requiring minimum standards of cybersecurity at hospitals, which are largely state regulated.
— David E. Sanger, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
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