Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would not dissolve Parliament. "Dissolution of Parliament," continued Mr. Asquith, "is in this country one of the prerogatives of the Crown. It is not a mere feudal survival, but it is a part, and I think a useful part, of our constitutional system for which there is no counterpart in any other country, such, for instance, as the United States...
...most definite declaration of belief made by any Protestant Church during the last five years of religious controversy was made at Dallas, Tex., by the bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S., which is the counterpart of the Anglican or State Church of Great Britain...
Archeological and paleontological digging in Africa and Europe (TIME, Oct. 22) has its counterpart in the Americas, and also in China, whence comes the report from Roy Chapman Andrews that his expedition has discovered the eggs of the dinosaur...
...Army, for maintaining peace and order. Governors of the provinces will be elected by the individual provinces concerned under much the same system as the election of state governors in the U. S. On the whole the Constitution follows more closely American ideals than did its provisional counterpart of Nanking...
...inexorable polka, but in vigor of execution, in recognition of artistic requirements and in sheer merit, these two most popular scenes scarcely outdo the others. The music throughout is so far above the level of the American vaudeville that one hesitates to apply that classification to the Russian counterpart. The voices are really musical,-except, of course, when they are intentionally harsh for obvious effects,-and the dancing, of which there is regrettably little, is interesting to say the least...