The nearest parallel, even if we were to treat "private individual" as including a state, would be the relationship between the states and their militia.

Such has been the lack of literary models, though, that the nearest parallel is not with any literary bratpack but rather with the new wave of black film-makers in the States.

The nearest parallel to Maggie is Ted.

Probably the nearest stylistic parallel to the work as a whole is to Elton John's The Lion King, another musical with strong emphasis on ethnically diverse stylistic influences.

Its rather strange style finds its nearest parallels in the third quarter of the century, and primitive elements in the technique suggest that it is an early piece of its kind.

"The nearest parallel to the K Foundation donation would be The Beatles' grandiose plans for Apple Corps", they said.

The nearest parallels are Abraham Lincoln taking over on the brink of civil war, or Franklin Roosevelt arriving in the Great Depression.

The nearest parallel can be found in the principles relating to infant communion, specifically, the age of reason.

The nearest parallel to it in the world of nature is to be found in the remarkable transformations we can make in insects by applying certain rays to them.

The nearest parallel in real life may be Gregory Robbins, an 18-year-old senior at Trinity High School in Manhattan.