Is the Russian Big Brother a bit more coarse and disoriented than his American counterpart?
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Which brings us back to Romeo, and his American counterpart Tony in the 1960s musical West Side Story.
And so, when Mr Scharping appeared before the press with his American counterpart, William Cohen, something revealing happened.
The French president also sought to play down differences with his American counterpart.
He has urged his American counterpart, Charlene Barshefsky, to intervene to stop businessmen from buying access to public officials.
His American counterpart, Charlene Barshefsky, who was badly weakened by the disastrous Seattle summit that she chaired, may want to compromise too.
Whereas a British doctor uses medical judgment to determine whether to pursue a symptom with expensive tests, an American counterpart dare not.
Like its American counterpart, the Indian version uses personal accounts - some dramatic, others funny - to illustrate how a woman's sexuality is repressed.
With rates in America at rock bottom, and the Singapore dollar set to strengthen against its American counterpart, interest rates in Singapore are extraordinarily low.
But unlike its American counterpart, success comes not from international saturation, but its ability to cater to the millions of hard-working Indians across the subcontinent.
He doubts it protects investors as well as its American counterpart.
Besides becoming, possibly, the first social networking company to reach the IPO finish line, Renren.com is reaching it prior to its original American counterpart, the ubiquitous Facebook.
Seconds later Howard's American counterpart Freidel made a superb instinct stop from Felliani's snap shot on the turn before Rodwell glanced Arteta's dangerous free-kick just wide of the post.
Two decades later, as President of France, General de Gaulle would telephone his American counterpart, President Lyndon Johnson to tell him that France had decided to withdraw from NATO.
After a Canadian ambulance carrying a patient requiring emergency surgery was stopped en route to Detroit, Stockwell Day, the security minister, asked Michael Chertoff, his American counterpart, to review border procedures.
The day of the arrests, French Defense Minister Herve Morin was meeting with his American counterpart, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington on a previously unannounced visit.
The team of the year honor was awarded to Europe's Ryder Cup golf side , which launched a stirring final-day comeback to beat its American counterpart at the 2012 tournament at Medinah in Illinois.
Compared with its American counterpart, the Federal Reserve, the ECB under Mr Duisenberg has been a bit tardy in cutting interest rates to reflect the fact that deflation and economic stagnation are now more of a danger in Europe than inflation.
Now I see a counterpart to the American 1920s, with the first sizable generation of moderne post-rural life.
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But what carrots and sticks can the American president offer his Russian counterpart?
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On Tuesday, Colin Powell, the secretary of state, telephoned his Uzbek counterpart to offer American help in investigating the latest terrorist attacks in the country.
PARIS, France (Reuters) -- France's defense minister took a double swipe at the United States accusing her counterpart Donald Rumsfeld of American supremacism and U.S. industry of waging "economic war" on Europe.
On December 10th, its Council approved the merger of its (thriving) postgraduate Institute of Latin American Studies with its (faltering) counterpart for the study of the United States.
Santiago Levy, his counterpart at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), thinks that governments need to start reconfiguring spending to protect the social gains of the past five years.
One U.S. commander in southern Afghanistan told me about his Afghan counterpart flaring up when he learned American support was being quickly scaled back.
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Moreover, each American currently has around six times the ecological footprint of his African or Asian counterpart and twice the footprint of Europeans.
Today the average Latin American adult has only five years of schooling, compared with nine years for his East-Asian counterpart.
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