Sentences with phrase «feat in modern»

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China is trying to transform itself from an agrarian backwater into a modern industrial power in the span of a single generation — a feat that took the West a century of ups and downs, harsh lessons and hard - won victories.

There have been 13 Olympics since, and each has left a legacy of unforgotten moments and splendid heroes: Dorando Pietri staggering to a disqualification in 1908; Aileen Riggin, at 12, winning the dive in Antwerp; Jim Thorpe, who astonished the Swedes with his athletic feats by day and his revelry by night; the taciturn little Finn, Paavo Nurmi, who won seven long - distance championships; Jesse Owens, whose four gold medals in Berlin brought a scowl to the face of Adolf Hitler; and Emil Zatopek who, lacking natural speed, became by will the most marvelous of modern long - distance runners.

The operation of separating Siamese twins is delicate and intricate and is a great feat of modern science in this modern world.

In September, modern technology applied to a centuries - old technique raised the wreck of the luxury liner Costa Concordia in an unprecedented engineering feaIn September, modern technology applied to a centuries - old technique raised the wreck of the luxury liner Costa Concordia in an unprecedented engineering feain an unprecedented engineering feat.

On a steamy, torpid summer morning in Florida, the Polk power plant is performing a small feat of modern alchemy.

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The company also owns Adventist Singles Connection... as a divine promise for prosperity in modern Christians» dating lives requires a feat of theological gymnastics.

Make no mistake, Ford's latest GT is a modern homologation special created first and foremost to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans, a feat it accomplished in 2016.

Amazingly, 40 years later, John Calvert repeated the feat, winning in the debut of the modern CJ at the 2009 Winternationals.

«We think the Ford GT's trio of awards over the past four Chicago Auto Shows demonstrates the appeal of the car's stylish looks, modern innovation and legendary history, including beating Ferrari again at LeMans in 2016, 50 years after accomplishing the same feat in one of racing's most memorable races of all time,» said Matt Leaver from Ford Performance Communications in his comment to Chicago News.

A monumental feat of multi-sensory descriptive writing too, that actually made me feel cold while under a warm duvet in a modern heated house.

In fact, the sewers — seen upon their completion as a magnificent feat of engineering — have been a tourist attraction since not long after the modern network was created in 185In fact, the sewers — seen upon their completion as a magnificent feat of engineering — have been a tourist attraction since not long after the modern network was created in 185in 1850.

There are many theories as to how this city in the sky was built — a feat that defies modern physics, much less ancient physics.

How the Incas accomplished the incredible feat of using immense granite building blocks fitted perfectly together - in spite of many different angles to match up - is still a mystery to modern engineers.

A super-sleek, minimal feat of modern architecture, sublime in design with magnificent sweeping views of the Bay of Villefranche in the Mediterranean Sea.

Perhaps the biggest news of the week however is Modern Warfare 2 which, having left behind the DS» Dr Kawashima — a feat accomplished in 41 weeks — is now officially the UK's biggest - selling videogame of all time.

While Modern Warefare 2 was indeed quite a visual feat, Surface 1 & 2 were some of the very first instances of snow transgression in the first person perspective we saw.

That giant leap we saw when the original Modern Warfare game touched down is not quite there, but yet in a time when the development team had to stick handle a game what would be a released on 5 different consoles (Wii U, PS3, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox 360), Ghosts is an impressive feat.

Late in his life, the painter of modern orientation attempted to re-introduce elements of abstraction into his new figurative style, a feat that can be seen in several of his works from 1980.

Yet another view is that the real political feat of modern art was to have been political enough in the first four decades of the twentieth century to have broken in the first four decades of the twentieth century to have broken in the first four decades of the twentieth century to have broken free from the unstated but implicit obligation to be political in the service of the state.

«Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction» at the Museum of Modern Art A feat of scholarship and curating, this retrospective showed the wealthy Impressionist - turned - Cubist - turned - Dadaist - turned - proto - postmodern madman in all of his glory.

His room paintings, such as the gold filigree work that he made for the Turner Prize in 2009 or the dizzying force lines — a graphic technique used in engineering — visible in the stairwell of Modern 2 in Edinburgh, are amazing feats of painstaking complexity.

Having discovered that the metric system was put into it's modern metric use (Please see full attached document) at the advent of the French Revolution, Antunes was able to study the information on this historic and monumental feat and in some cases, archival documentation by the original scientists.

Mann's research was thorough and interesting, and like Manley's work with CET, and Hansen's with global temperature, was a considerable feat of research and re-interpretation of existing knowledge, which until then had accepted considerable variability, with previous episodes of warming exceeding those in the modern era.

John Chisholm has a nice post about his father retiring after 59 years in the same Australian law firm; a feat that will likely never be matched in this era of modern law.

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