11.  The nearest thing to a University Parliament, they were voting on plans to promote fifteen people to professor.

12.  The United Nations General Assembly has been called the nearest thing to a world parliament.

13.  It would appear that the legal profession is the nearest thing to a recession-proof industry.

14.  The nearest thing to a termitarium that I can think of in human behavior is the making of language,

15.  That and the fact that it lost faith in the nearest thing to a charismatic it had had since Rose Fox.

16.  In the face of an unprecedented presence of troops, Luddism was the nearest thing to a guerrilla campaign waged on English soil.

17.  Of the three sequences this sequence appears to be the nearest thing to a traditional form of design.

18.  This leaves the US as the nearest thing the world has to a globocop, the only major power able to project its military forces on a global scale.

19.  It was the nearest thing to a coherent defence system yet seen at Verdun.

20.  Alaska was, and is, the nearest thing we have to an American frontier, and frontiers seldom are tidy.