Where Mary was tentative, her modern equivalent left no room for doubt.

Here, we were the modern equivalent of the people at Villa Diodati.

Increasingly a text or WhatsApp message to Warren Gatland is the modern equivalent.

The modern equivalent, though, is all about noise rather than impact.

Well, of course - and Gerry Adams is the modern equivalent of Oliver Cromwell.

You'll be the modern equivalent of Mrs. John Wilkes Booth.

This bubble is the modern equivalent of the inventor's garage.

An efficient computer virus is the modern equivalent of a plague, showing no mercy.

That message may be a modern equivalent of Alexander Graham Bell's Mr. Watson, come here.

The barbarism of the neo-Gaul is unrestraint ("punch" is the nearest modern equivalent).

They are fighting it out in court - the modern equivalent of the Wild West.

These radar outposts could be the modern equivalent of the frontier forts of Indian days.

Neither art nor thought has a modern equivalent; only Heloise, like Isolde, unites the ages.

There is certainly no modern equivalent to da Vinci.

It was the ultimate get-out-of-jail card, the modern equivalent of a ticket to Noah's Ark.

This is the modern equivalent of digging through a household rubbish bin or stealing mail.