Sentences with 'analogous'
Example sentences and phrases with the word analogous and other words derived from it.
• « Rome struggled with a situation analogous to that of Athens, in which the rich not only had a virtual monopoly of political power, but in many cases had the legal right to enslave or at least extract labour from debtors. »
• « Therefore, the Teutonic Knights could make a very plausible case for their Crusades as analogous to the Spanish Reconquista, and the Teutonic Knights proved to be very astute in placing agents in the papal court who worked to maintain papal support for their efforts. »
• « A Sumerian text from almost four thousand years ago - which predates the biblical text by a thousand years - contains a narrative strikingly analogous to the one describing the confusion of languages at the Tower of Babel. Once again the Sumerians reveal themselves to be the authors of literary traditions, beliefs and motifs that have spread throughout the world. »