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Sentence Examples I'm fascinated by the way that modern-day culture resonates with the whispers, sighs and echoes of ghosts. It is the modern-day equivalent of finding the right cave, keeping it dry and decorating it with pretty cave paintings. The description of being drunk on too much wine and going into brothels made me think how little modern-day life has changed. A force with fewer than 1,600 officers was not equipped to deal with modern-day crime, he said. Fittingly, the story of Britain's relationship with its underwear ends with a modern-day corset. The methods used have changed little over the centuries and appear quaint compared with modern-day forestry. Society nowadays is much more violent than it was 30 years ago and the screens are a modern-day necessity. The Whitbread was first run in 1957 and was the forerunner of all modern-day sponsorships. If you want to rub shoulders with the modern-day glitterati, go for dinner at any of the restaurants by the harbour. No one is under any illusion that drugs are the scourge of modern-day society. What made the 1973 film stand out was that it set its demonic possession in a humdrum modern-day context. People who reflect the wide diversity which exists in modern-day Scotland are needed for this vital work. In the 19th century, a laboratory existed in part of the modern-day district of Belmont. Moscow and London concluded a non-aggression pact and agreed the bounds of modern-day Afghanistan. The deer's range later contracted to the Ural Mountains, in modern-day Russia, which separate Europe from Asia. Sometimes dubbed a modern-day Lowry, he draws upon his Midlands background to produce quirkily humorous work with universal themes. Because he believes modern-day adventurism of this sort cannot work and is unnecessary. It's a modern-day fairy tale, folks, because, you see, they did get on the telly after all. One would've imagined that an ability to distinguish ladyboys from genuine ladies is a minimum requirement for modern-day editorial work. For modern-day adherents of the belief that tariffs and not slavery caused the war, the Confederate tariffs serve as a sharp rejoinder. Show More Sentences It concludes with a modern-day Bach chorale in the winds and a restatement of the stately, sonorous string chords from the opening procession. He was a modern-day Robin Hood, who gave liberally to the poor and the downtrodden. It works if only as a glorious distraction from the antiseptic earnestness of life as a modern-day Test player. The Arian crisis, both for its longevity and its melodrama, puts modern-day soap operas to shame. Ennui would set in, as we sophisticated consumers became modern-day lotus-eaters, hooked on channel surfing and material comforts. The Buddha was born in the Terai lowlands near the foothills of the Himalayas just inside the borders of modern-day Nepal. In addition to bread, wheat was also included in salads with chopped herbs and spices, much like our modern-day tabbouleh. This is clearly a book with a western audience in mind, but there are plenty of ideas for the modern-day cook in India too. The third group of invaders were the Magyars who came from modern-day Hungary. In recent years governments and citizens and non-governmental organizations have begun to awake to the problem of modern-day slavery. Elections are rarely worth defending, and certainly are not the holy things modern-day majoritarians say they are. Their stories are narrated with sharp adroitness and lessons are drawn that apply to our modern-day craving for supermen and saviours. As such, he confounds modern-day screamers on both the left and the right for whom the warrior code is unintelligible. Now, there's a word you don't read or hear too often when it comes to modern-day sport. The question you have asked is basic to much of modern-day science activity. Count Thibault and his servant Andre are in a tizzy after being transported from the 12 th century to modern-day Chicago. The cross-shaped hall resembles an aircraft hangar or perhaps the transept and nave of a modern-day basilica. The rewards can be huge for a band of men who regard themselves as modern-day big-game hunters. These men are modern-day pirates, bringing terror to the high seas. The play is a sad, beautifully written, modern-day tragic love story. Show More Sentences The modern-day comedians still look at them as the first and the best. This period is often viewed by modern-day Thais as a golden age of Siamese religion, politics, and culture. The festival last week was charged with a modern-day energy and a multicultural feel. Here, we consider the concept of negative advertising and the effects such practices have on modern-day campaigning. As I have pointed out elsewhere, modern-day German neo-Nazis are demonstrably just as Leftist as Hitler was. A traditional Victorian wooden wagon called a varda was on show at St Mary's School, Swanley, as was the Romany modern-day caravan equivalent. Their modern-day equivalents are merely bureaucratic nonentities completely remote from everyday life. It is a modern-day social commentary, ranging from capitalistic alienation to the seeking of immediate gratification in relationships with women. It is a modern-day fairy tale complete with magic, an ogre, brave deeds, and the ultimate triumph of good over evil. The 1997 IRL champion has served as the modern-day role model for any open-wheeler looking to transition into stock-car racing. The modern-day emphasis is as much on avoiding illness as on enjoying optimal health. His 12.5-inch Combat Axe melds Medieval styling with modern-day design cues, bringing the art of chopping up to a new level. Harlan is a horse-riding, pistol-twirling charmer who seems to have stepped out of a 1950s western and washed up in modern-day Los Angeles. A theatre full of modern-day hyperactive children still laughs and cheers at all the right places. These will be men who know their way around a panga, the weapon of choice in modern-day Africa, and I would put my life on the line for them. But modern-day swimming pool chutes and ponies captured the imagination and attention of the youngsters. But modern-day life, with its swing shifts and all-night lighting, often manually overrides nature's schedules. Some Syrian scientists say that the discovery shows that Syria may have been the birthplace of modern-day camels. The media has been promoting the idea, recently, that supermodels are being replaced by actors as celebrities and modern-day icons. My consultants currently read Harry as a modern-day knight, peerless and beyond reproach. Show More Sentences The characters in my fable are modern-day versions of Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz. Outside the train, the concert footage is mingled with modern-day interviews, much of them regarding the political perplexities at the time. In 1933 Standard Oil of California obtained a concession from the founder of modern-day Saudi Arabia King Abd Al-Aziz Ibn Saud. This time the modern-day Lady workers were enjoying a string concert and a glass or two of wine. The persecuted poor of Australia turn the Kelly brothers into folk heroes, a modern-day Robin Hood. His modern-day company is a shaft of light into a world he once straddled with an unprecedented combination of foppishness and fear tactics. Those Puritan forefathers generate their fair share of criticism from we their modern-day descendants. Not many people know this, but most modern-day cremators are about 30 inches wide, and new furnaces are now being built around 10 inches wider. He has been forced into being a frontman for a bunch of modern-day American scoundrels. He is to appear as a modern-day Narad, armed with gizmos to spew cutting comments. And Terre Haute Federal Prison and its death house in rural Indiana hardly make for a modern-day Calvary or Golgotha. By the standards of both Cook's crew and our modern-day colleagues, we were geriatrics. The glassed-in ice pilot's tower is the modern-day equivalent of a crow's nest, three vertical ladders above the bridge. In those border zones, modern-day barbarians can use technology to collapse distance, to inflict devastating damage on centers of power far away. Our poets and storytellers are the modern-day griots who speak the history and carry on the culture with dazzling tongue. The Indian leaf plate, pattal or istaraku is one of the precursors of the modern-day disposables. The basis for the modern-day sovereign belief system is a conspiracy theory that is as outrageous as it is confusing. It was pretty strict, but it turned out to be an important part of the modern-day rescue of Irish and Celtic music. As every media outlet on the planet reminded us, the original Council of Nicea was held in 325 c.e. in modern-day Iznik, Turkey. A modern-day Astaire or Crosby, the well-wardrobed Wes Anderson exhibits style and grace, both personally and in his filmmaking. Show More Sentences Although comically represented, the works depict sober modern-day issues. A wide range of vegetable crops are grown, all of which are produced without any of the modern-day chemicals which dominate the lives of today's farmer. After word of Banks' presence spread, he became a modern-day pied piper. Those modern-day prophets, the health and nutrition experts, reckon that getting five portions of fruit and vegetables under your belt should be as easy as pie. It's a good fit for these books, which are set in an alternate modern-day world, but which also manage to give off a Prohibition era-slash-mobster vibe. But when modern-day conservationists surveyed the offshore rocks they discovered something even more ethereal lurking within. Whether they're helping their kids with a science project, kissing boo-boos or waking up for midnight feedings, many modern-day dads are deep in the parenting trenches. Naughton looks and sounds like a modern-day frat boy in period drag. What does our desperation to get a nuclear deal at all costs say to the modern-day Iranian Solzhenitsyns rotting in Evin prison? And we pay these modern-day monarchs to reign over and rule us. The Web is indeed a modern-day breeding ground for unscrupulous forgers. Our modern-day parliamentary procedures are a little more sophisticated but the basic values and principles seem to me not to have changed at all. These are modern-day minstrels, trolling late-night highways to bring their art to your door. Going to The Ball, signing up for JDate, downloading JSwipe are all modern-day rites of passage. I wonder if there are any anthro studies of modern-day cannibal cultures? Pieced together, they represent Wattieza, a tree that looked like modern-day palm with a crown of fronds that grew up to 30 feet high and reproduced through spores. If the courts decided that a slave was merely a modern-day villein, or serf, then his master might be legally entitled to transport him to Jamaica. Their research provided the groundwork for other modern-day solutions that use microwave energy and light to propel ships, rather than nuclear fission. The entrance the modern-day budoka makes to his ryu or dojo may be simpler than it was in the old days, but it has just as much meaning and commitment. Men like Rove are the gurus, gray eminences, cardinals and kingmakers to the modern-day queens, and wield tremendous power and influence behind the scenes. Show More Sentences In fact, he's even a kind of modern-day Orpheus, descending into the sewer to bet his life and find redemption. But while the miracle of Hanukkah was being celebrated downstairs, a modern-day miracle was happening on the second floor. Before establishing control in Britain, the Romans probably forded the Thames in the area of modern-day Westminster, as this was the lowest fordable point in the river. In 907 Magyars, a semi-nomadic people from the northeast, invaded the empire and established the Kingdom of Hungary, which incorporated modern-day Slovakia. Many believe Ubykh descended from Hattic, an ancient language that flourished in modern-day Turkey until Indo-European Hittite largely displaced it. And that softness is a modern-day killer, the equivalent of the savanna-dweller's lion. And that softness is a modern-day killer,the equivalent of the savanna-dweller's lion. The pupils of Llanedeyrn Primary in Cardiff, are the stars of a modern-day version of Scrooge. But given the hyperkinetic demands of the modern-day action movie, drastic measures are needed to weld hero and villain together. His numbers improved, declined, and improved again to a degree that was incomparable to his modern-day pitcher counterparts. He suggests that we should learn from empire, so when we go into places like Iraq we appoint a modern-day governor-general who directs military and political operations. The deal has been heralded as the first modern-day treaty in the province. Appret invented a method for preservation by sealing foods in airtight bottles and immersing them in boiling water for varying periods, which led to modern-day canning. A type of modern-day vegetarian moussaka, these sweet oven-roasted onions are filled with a herby tomato, nut and mushroom mixture, then baked in a rich feta cheese custard. Boat making, silver-smithing, bronze tooling, cloth weaving and basket making are examples of the types of artistry celebrated and emulated in modern-day culture. One of Scotland's most beautiful towns is to stop rich incomers pricing locals out of the housing market by introducing a modern-day version of croft houses. Discover which modern-day master sports the smartest mawashi belt. Far murkier is what did they believe they would accomplish, these modern-day kamikazes with their box-cutters, their commandeered jets and their insane visions of vengeance? The trio was under the impression that they were untouchable and would beat the rap and began to transfer their assets to relatives' modern-day off-shore accounts. The drama will open in modern-day Great Ormond Street Hospital where 12-year-old Lucy Rose is awaiting treatment for a serious heart condition. Show More Sentences A modern-day Crusoe will find not just one footprint in his island's sand. Fewer people may be adding squirrel meat to authenticate their Brunswick stew, but the ubiquitous city squirrel has its own modern-day problems. Mzungu Mjinga by Edgar award winner Rick Boyer is a modern-day safari memoir. This collection of essays examines the idea of modern-day feminism through the lens of popular heroine Hermione Granger, a character in the well-known Harry Potter series. The newspaper was duly found guilty of crimes against the language in the modern-day kangaroo court known as Twitter. In Table 12, the developments that have taken place between a protolanguage and the modern-day varieties are summarized. Prior to the modern-day immunoassays and automated analyzers, urinary screens for acetaminophen relied on indophenol colorimetric methods. With more than 30 years of technical experience, Acampora has been instrumental in the development of modern-day technical analysis. According to Li Anshan, most scholars believe the Bobali Kingdom was located in modern-day Berbera, in the Somali region of Somaliland. Over the years, I've made no secret of the fact that I suffer from the crippling modern-day ailment of cyberchondria. Yet all this modern-day whoop-de-do notwithstanding, the fact remains that de Soto was and is an important part of Alabama history. Tetracycline, a modern-day antibiotic, is a fluorophor that binds with calcium during the mineralization phase of osteon production. Visitors will also be treated to early printing type, illustration, calligraphy, printmaking and modern-day printing processes done by computer. She uses modern-day Los Angeles as the setting for her book. In a modern-day treasure hunt, a geocache is marked with GPS coordinates shared via the Internet. A Fan History Lounge would be a great way to educate modern-day fans about Eofandom, fanac during World War II, and so on. With its snarly synths and ricocheting beats, this modern-day morality play set to music marks his psychotic break and spiritual rebirth. That the series archly referenced such modern-day scandals as Enron and, in its loonily bizarre finale, Halliburton, will likely be lost on most voters and viewers. Sir Bob championed the cause of Charles William Alcock, who was born in Sunderland and is considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern-day football. The researchers found the geologic remnants of the Hindu's legendary sacred Sarasvati river in the desert surrounding the modern-day Ghaggar-Hakra valley. Show More Sentences Most modern-day conservatives do not disassociate themselves from Limbaugh the way Bill Buckley and Kirk distanced themselves from Welch and the Birchers. This version claims Arthur was born on the eastern fringes of the Roman empire in Sarmatia, south of modern-day Russia, as Lucius Artorius Castus, before coming to Britain. Like modern-day Kremlinologists, we all try to discern what each question the Justice asks at oral argument signals about how the Court will rule and on what grounds. The overall image of modern-day admen has been somewhat tarnished in the public eye in recent years, by the industry's flagging creativity and charm. In the court of public opinion, we are the judge and jury so wouldn't it be wiser sometimes not to start a trial but to tell the modern-day accusers to bog off and get a life? Hanks thinks he probably spent more time in make-up preparing to play thuggish, modern-day Irish author Dermot Hoggins than he did actually depicting him on set. Climatic warming during the past 10,000 years led to the extirpation of most low-elevation pika populations, producing the modern-day relictual distribution of the species. Our holistic study of these modern-day traces suggests it to be a complex trace arising from domichnial, fodinichnial and possibly pascichnial behavior of polychaetes. Ed Udovic, both Vincentian priests, speak of and include a larger body of people in a more encompassing description of those who are modern-day Vincentians. In fact, the director of the EH Williams Group claims they are pioneers in the sector, being among the first to establish the modern-day retail garden centres. Another layer of meaning is imposed by geomancy, or feng shui, which even modern-day laowai recognize as a construct for analyzing and organizing the environment around us. Docofossor, which lived around 160,000,000 years ago, had a skeletal structure and body proportions strikingly similar to the modern-day African golden mole. Part three describes the time when amphibians and reptiles in North America, the Elgin region, and Gondwana began to resemble modern-day creatures. If modern-day Docetists, Arians, and Nestorians are in our pews, they probably won't do much harm to themselves or others, and they might still lead fruitful lives. I read with jaw-dropping shock that an accused child molester is being hailed as a modern-day Galileo or Copernicus in the pages of this magazine. Another Fuller invention was a revolving disc of gels, which enabled a lighting operator to shift hues constantly like a modern-day color scroller. Described as a modern-day Stonehenge dedicated to the cult of the automobile, it features ten partially buried Cadillacs, tail fins upended, along Route 66 in Amarillo, Texas. Her prose manages to be at once lyrical and gritty, magical yet unsentimental, connecting a dreamworld of Ojibwe legend to stark realities of the modern-day. Taken at his own word, William Hogarth could be assumed to be as zealous and boorish a Francophobe as any modern-day editorialist in the British popular press. And most modern-day ear candle packages have disclaimers warning consumers the product is not meant for medical treatment, but meditation, relaxation or amusement. Examples from Classical Literature Recreating the covers will be an exciting way of introducing modern-day stars and personalities to our readers. Female Tunisians could be considered the modern-day equivalent of comfort women as they provide sexual comfort to rebel Syrians. The equivalent of a modern-day saviour, the Extensor Blue Hand Exerciser can put an end to all your typing woes. Made In A Free World is a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California dedicated to ending modern-day slavery. Well, all that has changed for me since I tasted the grown-up charms of the throbbingly cool metropolis which is modern-day Miami. Set in what is now modern-day Germany, the first part of his new trilogy centres on the worlds of Arminius, a tribal chieftan, and centurion Lucius Calvinus Tullus. More than half of the white working classes believe no one speaks out for people like them in modern-day Britain, the survey for BBC2's White season of programmes found. When the show ended, Bullock was rich and famous, and his stock rose further when he proved himself a modern-day Paul Lynde in a version of Hollywood Squares. Fast forward to modern-day Chicago and Fred is a mean-spirited bailiff, happy to steal the goods he's repossessing, while Nick lives in the North Pole making toys. Fast forward to modern-day Berlin, where Nate has agreed to act as guardian on a school trip to Germany to visit Hades at the entrance to Tartarus. Studying naval mutinies of old are worth studying today, researchers point out, because they illuminate how modern-day ill-treatment toward subordinates can lead to violence. Find more words! 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