An important feature of present-day globalisation is the advent of a consumer credit society. |
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She said that a large proportion of present-day nurses are degree students who have spent more time in a classroom than on the wards. |
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Like most elderly folk I find the present-day world much more complicated than that of my early years. |
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The collapse of European fertility rates shows the force of present-day welfare state pressures. |
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Many people die with a minimum of discomfort and distress due to present-day medication and expert care services. |
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In the light of present-day circumstances, old-age homes have to be accepted as an option. |
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The film is a period thriller clearly intended to shed light on present-day problems. |
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The present-day security employee has to meet a number of serious requirements. |
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The present-day education system hardly resolves the prejudices against the victims. |
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One of the few fascinations of present-day politics is the stark contrast between the Tory and Labour leaders. |
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Despite all the attractions of present-day living, it is good to see the old traditions still strong in the area. |
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The teachings of Jesus Christ are the reasons, basically, for present-day standards of behaviour. |
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We pity our forebears for the pain and suffering they endured along the way and revel in our comfortable present-day lives. |
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But the ancients would hold their own if they could be given the benefits of present-day training and diet. |
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The high efficiency of a quantum computer facilitates computing far beyond the capacity of present-day equipment. |
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In ancient times, present-day Tajikistan was a part of the empire of the Achaemenian Persians. |
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Her valuable book offers the reader an acute insight into the origins of our present-day consumer culture. |
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His present-day position of film adapter of Italian films into English stems from this early period. |
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Kathleen Jamie is the latest in a line of present-day poets who are attracting large audiences to the Grasmere readings. |
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Their princes, or khans, made capital and court at Karabalghasun on the River Orkhon in present-day Mongolia. |
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Similar effects occur when present-day glue sniffers rebreathe exhaled air from a plastic bag. |
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The Ohio testers found that most of the receipts can be made easily with present-day ingredients, techniques, and equipment. |
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Similar in size to present-day yellow-eyed or king penguins, Waimanu penguins stood about 26 to 30 inches tall. |
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More dubious than any of these schoolboy larks is the lengthy section of tragedy-as-farce set in present-day Lithuania. |
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Methane has been found in the Martian atmosphere which scientists say could be a sign of present-day life on Mars. |
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Do you sense a strong current of social idealism running through present-day American design? |
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Tone in Luganda is of cardinal phonemic importance, which is probably a general characteristic of most present-day Bantu languages. |
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At that time, the lowland savannas were settled by large numbers of farmer-herders who were ancestors to present-day Luo and Kipsigis. |
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Systems of this kind are referred to as telefacsimile systems in present-day parlance. |
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The tree species included dawn redwood, ginkgo, bald cypress, and relatives of present-day sassafras, tulip tree, and magnolia. |
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He starts going back in time to fix things and coming back to ever more screwed-up present-day circumstances. |
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All this is conventional, except for the projection forward of present-day mechanisms and gadgetry. |
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Rarely has the church appeared so out of touch with present-day Scotland than it did during the cardinal's sermon. |
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In 1960, the Gujarati-speaking areas of Bombay were split off to form the present-day Gujarat. |
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The ancient Siberian demonstrates genomic signatures that are basal to present-day western Eurasians and close to modern Native Americans. |
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Contemporary plays are also bound by the facts of present-day life. |
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The original inhabitants of present-day Burundi are thought to be the Twa people, descendants of the pygmies. |
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Few present-day Green Party leaders seem willing to urge the Greens to forego the blandishments of a presidential campaign. |
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He was also a superb signwriter and used to teach it at the York School of Art in the same building as the present-day Art Gallery. |
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But the accuracy of Canaletto's paintings has been checked against present-day photographs. |
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Maintaining the distinctiveness of their culture in the face of urbanization and modernization is a challenge for the present-day Motu. |
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People see that present-day law is unduly lenient towards the criminal, and unsympathetic, sometimes harsh, towards the victim. |
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The Kumaun and Garhwal hills of present-day Uttar Pradesh contain the best stands of softwood in the subcontinent. |
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Some buckaroos will protest that the list is unfair to Westerns because it reflects only present-day movie tastes. |
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It involves comparison to reconstruct, if you like, the ancient vocabularies that present-day languages are derived from. |
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Those who sent these men to burn themselves and others are the high priests of this present-day heathen cult. |
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Before then, the Mayans, who lived in present-day Guatemala, Honduras and southern Mexico, recorded hurricanes in their hieroglyphics. |
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These data define another linear palaeotemperature profile that is subparallel to the present-day geothermal gradient. |
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Human experience on the territory of present-day Russia dates back to Paleolithic times. |
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Alternatively, the present-day geothermal gradient may be lower than that used in calculating the profile. |
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The dynamics used in the Pixies' sounds have been imitated widely in present-day rock music. |
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Our present-day concerns for ecological, social, and economic sustainability are consequences of growing industrialism. |
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Indeed, his words have proved true, as present-day giant media corporations and media conglomerates attest. |
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The Inupiaq dwell in the icy lands on the North Slope of Alaska near present-day Barrow. |
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If a new kind of fusionism is to have any chance for success, it must aim beyond the specifics of particular, present-day controversies. |
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The bright facades of present-day Willemstad conceal the dark secrets of offshore finance. |
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A typical present-day covered bridge has a flooring dead load equal to approximately one third of the total weight of the bridge superstructure. |
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For present-day society in the Arab nation that is not the case. |
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This process has less to do with the war on terrorism and more to do with old enmities and present-day geostrategy. |
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The factors that produced social bandits and other primitive rebels in the past are very much part of the present-day world. |
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This could be a fault that delineates the present-day eastern boundary of the West Siberian Basin. |
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He is one of the most ironic, intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America. |
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I wonder whether there are some differences in the colloquial applications of this word between present-day American English and English English? |
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An early Cretaceous to late Eocene volcanic arc was located in the present-day Central Depression. |
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It is true that present-day river courses are not wholly natural. |
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In the present-day world when allopathy calls the shots everywhere, an acupuncturist also operates his clinic here in the city to treat the patients. |
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The Neogrammarians in their Manifesto declared that it was the study of present-day language use evidenced in dialects that was of utmost importance. |
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In the middle of all of that past suffering and present-day conflict, this Cosby bomb was dropped. |
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In addition, two main temples were constructed on the acropolis, and a thriving seaport at present-day Minet el-Beida was located about half a mile away. |
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The creatures in question are evenly spaced and their spines are curved, typical of the position and posture of embryos in present-day viviparous lizards. |
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Though square-rigged sailing ships have just about vanished from our oceans, they have left us present-day sailors with a racial memory of grandeur, power, and beauty. |
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The magnitude of this exhumation was stronger along the present-day coastline where the deep-seated late Palaeozoic to Mid-Jurassic plutono-metamorphic belt is now exposed. |
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Without the discomfort of necessity, people tend to become complacent, as can be gauged from the present-day Assam compared to its historically famous yesteryears. |
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We all agreed that we should film the making of allegiance as one of the present-day threads. |
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In some present-day music the individual syllables of words are used primarily for their sound quality and seem disconnected from the rest of the text. |
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The present-day areal extent of the province is highly asymmetric with most of the outcrop preserved today in the Parana basin, on the South American continent. |
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Founded by german monks in present-day Old Town Stockholm, Zum Franziskaner has become a legend amongst locals and tourists. |
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In present-day usage, despite Fowler's strictures, concern for classical and linguistic purity is minimal and the coining of etymological hybrids is casual and massive. |
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He spoke of the present-day tragedies and turmoil that struck the city while he and his classmates were in the academy. |
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Although Marriott is virtually unknown as a writer outside of the church, this work is a well-crafted poem, and is still a popular item in present-day hymnaries. |
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Barkcloth and paper look and feel similar, and writers from the earliest European explorers to present-day anthropologists have commented on that similarity. |
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The result is that the ability of present-day electron and ion microscopes and microanalyzers to probe matter directly on the atomic scale is greatly limited. |
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Blocks of coquina were quarried for the Castillo from pits in present-day Anastasia State Recreation Area and then ferried by barge across Matanzas Bay to St. Augustine. |
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The tracker mechanism continued in use into the 19th century and has been revived on present-day organs because it gives an immediacy of touch from key to pipe. |
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We massively underachieved and the present-day side are doing that too. |
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Fabricating the future on screen has always been a way of mirroring present-day anxieties about technology. |
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The Krym are from the Crimean peninsula of present-day Ukraine. |
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The connections and motivations between subjects are somewhat discontinuous, but he seems to have more in mind than a snapshot of the state of present-day culture jamming. |
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Lawyers will recognize this as related to present-day incorporation through the due process clause, but this differs in requiring no showing of fundamentality. |
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According to company officials, Owen has gained widespread recognition as a Western painter of fine art, and his work in gouache captures present-day working cowboys. |
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The couple settled on his Silesian estate, located in present-day Poland. |
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Just as for Darwin's finches, it can reasonably be inferred that all the present-day species descended from an original species invading the island. |
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This assumption is reasonable because the maximum likelihood estimates of early Cretaceous and Neogene palaeogeothermal profiles are both similar to the present-day gradient. |
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The Tarim mummies, found in present-day China, were anhydrated naturally by searing desert conditions. |
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Soon we had a good view of the diprotodons, relatives of the present-day wombat but vastly larger. |
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The path followed a northwesterly course, passing through or near present-day Lehighton, Jim Thorpe, Mountaintop and Wilkes-Barre. |
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No doubt the associational test will itself be tested because it hinges on present-day understandings of cohesiveness and communal acts. |
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The verb-like prepositions derive historically from transitive verbs, but the etyma do not function as verbs in the present-day language. |
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The present-day rivers have narrow courses incised into the floodplains, with anabranches, or anastomosing distributary channels. |
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It seems more likely that the foundation for the legend lies in the prosperous Axumite empire in the north of present-day Ethiopia. |
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Deckles reviews the debate and recommends reparations for present-day ancestors of enslaved Africans forced to labor in the Caribbean. |
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Other early settlers probably crossed the Bering Strait from present-day Russia to Alaska. |
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Skull measurements indicate that Victoriapithecus was roughly the size of present-day vervet monkeys, Gonzales says. |
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Were the jatis, forerunners of the present-day ragas, rendered only during theatrical performances, or were they concertized widely? |
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The adolescent love of gadgets long ago merged seamlessly with the dominant vocationalism of present-day higher education. |
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No present-day researcher takes the idea of the refrigerator mother as the cause of autism seriously. |
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His first assignment with the Gooney Birds was in 1944 when he deployed to Aden, Arabia, in present-day Yemen. |
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The denouement is shocking in its fusion of black history and present-day social issues, but dissatisfying in its unraveling of this whodunit. |
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In his plea for masculism John Macy defies the champions of present-day feminism. |
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The present-day technology has been adopted in unrecognizably different forms based on applications. |
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The ancestors of a critical and growing mass of present-day Americans existed in dungheaps of humanity amid rotting vegetables. |
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Yet its implicit focus is resistance to all forms of social control, including the soft totalitarianism of present-day mass democracy. |
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The explorers spent a winter in present-day central North Dakota with Mandan and Hidatsa Indians. |
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The explorers built the fort in 1804 near the five Knife River villages of the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians in present-day North Dakota. |
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It opened present-day Lincoln and Pottawatomie counties and portions of present-day Cleveland, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne counties. |
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This article explores the identity of the Siang of the upper Barito River, in the present-day Regency of Murung Raya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. |
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But the movie pulls a reversal on that theme, trying to make a present-day girl's unhappinesses more understandable in the light of a Holocaust-shaded event. |
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Latosols occur irrespective of present-day climatic regimes, being found in subarid north-east Brazil or in very humid areas elsewhere in the country. |
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AtatE-rk was born in 1881 in Thessalonica, in present-day Greece. |
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First, how can we read relations between men and women in early modern texts in such a way that denaturalizes present-day, normative heterosexuality? |
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But beyond the dargah, and the medieval warren in which it sits, north India's present-day politics can be a good deal less accommodating of religious diversity. |
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In the 1940s, the Corps of Engineers planted what they believed were harmless Melaleuca trees in and around the campus of the present-day Pennsuco plant. |
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Based on the idea that while a tzaddik lives in the future, his goal is the betterment of the present, Yonatan started thinking about how this genre affects the present-day. |
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The present-day Cyrillic alphabet has 31 letters and is adapted to the Macedonian phonetic and phonologic system, drawing upon Krste Petkov Misirkov's reforms and alphabet. |
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In contrast to the phenomena of open and close vowels, the presence or absence of the gheada is still one of the most prominent phonetic features of present-day Galician. |
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Forams are abundant in present-day ocean sediments, where they use fingerlike extensions called pseudopods to engulf prey and to explore their surroundings. |
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