Sentences with 'counterpart'
Example sentences and phrases with the word counterpart and other words derived from it.
• « A learned person (almost always a member of the Church in this period) in England could still correspond with a learned person in Spain or Italy, but that correspondence was in Latin. He could not speak to his counterpart on the other side of the subcontinent, but he would share this written language. »
• « The Jesuits were founded by Ignatius of Loyola (1491 - 1556), a sort of Catholic counterpart to Luther or Calvin, in 1540. »
• « In India they established self-governing merchant colonies (called factories) run by the English East India Company (EIC), which had a legal monopoly on trade like its Dutch counterpart in the Netherlands. »
• « After the 1988 election, when I had to deal with Ron Brown, my counterpart in the Democratic Party, I sent one of my aides to him. I thought that talking to him personally would make me look vulnerable. And, since I got sick, Ron has been very kind to me - he writes and phones me often. I have learned that politics and human relations are very different things. I can disagree with Ron Brown's ideas and at the same time love him as a human being. »