6 sentences with “parallel”

Propel the foot toward the ceiling until the thigh is parallel to the floor.

In a symbolic parallel, the Committee also had the bodies of the dead French kings dug up and thrown into a mass grave (the corpse of Louis XIV fell over that of his grandfather, Henri IV).

Euclid was the first to use obvious starting points called axioms - for example, the idea that two parallel lines will never intersect - in order to deduce more complex principles called theorems.

There was a parallel here with the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians, who also (during their expansionist phase during the New Kingdom) claimed to be bringing order to a chaotic world at the end of a sword.

In 1598 he issued the Edict of Nantes which officially propagated toleration of the Huguenots, allowing them to build a parallel state within France with walled cities, armies and an official Huguenot church, but forbidding them entry into Paris and participation in the royal government.

In fact, it was not until the 19th century that writers moved away from Persian as the 'default' language of learning. Persian was thus something of a parallel to Latin in Europe, the big difference being that (unlike Latin) Persian was still a living language spoken by millions of people.