Sentences with phrase «first modern example»

Yet history may judge 2016 as an even more momentous year for midsize trucks because the 2016 Chevrolet Colorado is the first modern example to offer a diesel engine.

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For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

Dreams, for example, were given a high place as media of divine revelation; (Genesis 20:3; 26:24 - 25; 28:10 - 16; 31:24; 37:5; 41:1; 46:1 - 4; Judges 7:13 - 15; I Kings 3:5 - 15 etc.) omens were trusted, such as the first word to be uttered at an expected meeting, (I Samuel 14:8 - 15) or a chance action regarded as a sign, (Genesis 24:12 - 14) or wind in the mulberry - trees taken as Yahweh's command to join battle; (II Samuel 5:22 - 24) and, in general, dealing with the superhuman world suggested nothing so simple and spiritual as private communion in prayer, but rather a whole array of magical techniques and, from the modern point of view, incredible superstitions.

For example, Whitehead himself, in introducing his chapter on God in Science and the Modern World, says that Aristotle was the last European metaphysician of first - rate importance who was entirely dispassionate in his understanding of God.

First, let's look at what we do know, there are in modern times examples of huge catastrophic floods.

The introduction of grammar schools, reducing other schools to the equivalent of secondary moderns, is an example of a tumultuous and contentious policy change that requires the verdict of the voters first.

The first paragraph of this answer is pretty much the definition of terrorism, and the two paragraphs that follow give good examples of how terrorism is used in the modern day.

Eric Pickles is a rare example of a local government leader to have reached the top in Westminster politics, and the first in a Conservative Cabinet in modern times.

In the second half of the 19th century, for example, British sociologist Herbert Spencer (one of the first modern sociologists) taught that «no society can afford to protect their frail members at the expense of the strong ones.»

As another example, consider the modern linkage of computers, first invented to solve projectile trajectories in World War II, into a globe - spanning Internet.

When it comes to human evolution, Europe and the Near East are crucial places: Europe has the first cave art, and the Near East has the first sightings of modern humans out of Africa, for example.

In this first example of that phenomenon in birds and nematodes, we learned that a class of parasites that is a present - day scourge once switched hosts from birds to mammals — a process that is all too familiar to modern epidemiologists.

Their surprising discovery demonstrates that the vitamin A derivative ATRA (all - trans retinoic acid), a treatment for APL that is considered to be the first example of modern targeted cancer therapy, can block multiple cancer - driving pathways and, at the same time, eliminate cancer stem cells by degrading the Pin1 enzyme.

Cutting - edge research, for example, has revealed that consumption of modern wheat is the first step in triggering autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis.

Examples of the first manufactured mirrors called «obsidian mirror «were found in Anatolia in modern - day Turkey and have been dated to around 6000BC.

Final Verdict: Most people steer away from 80s horror reboots, but Maniac could be the one example where the modern movie out - trumps the first.

And a group of modern viewers keen on the alienating dark side of tech paranoia and its drastic, often damaging, fallout as depicted on Black Mirror might take, for example, the first story in the anthology, «Real Life» (directed by Ronald D. Moore of Battlestar Galactica and Outlander), and feel a little underwhelmed when it concludes.

Heinrich von Kleist's novella about the legend of Michael Kohlhaas is considered one of the first examples of modern literature.

More importantly, there's a whole new structure beneath the skin, the first example of Toyota's new modular platform, and together with an improved hybrid powertrain, the overall result is a driving experience that makes you think of a modern automobile, not a transportation pod.

This Lovely Modern Day Classic Porsche Was First Supplied By Stratstone Wilmslow Porsche In The May Of 2002 And Since This First Registration Date Our Marvellous Example Has Only Changed Hands The Five Times, Which In The World Of Porsche Is Still Viewed As Being Low To Find, With The Last Person Acquiring Chassis Number S682460 In The November Of 2013.

With the new 2019 Jetta hitting dealers now, we put a first - generation example side - by - side with the modern Jetta to show off just how much has changed in nearly four decades.

It is finished in its original two - tone Black and Tan that looks especially nice even three decades after it was applied by Tiffany Motor Coach but obviously there's much more to the coupe than just paint, cool cars like this that are built in the same tradition of the Excalibur and Zimmer add century - old class and distinction to more modern components, that's where you get the custom swoopy fenders, decorative exterior exhaust ports, 2 exterior spare tires, full - length running boards, and bright wire wheels and of course the classic - style trunk with leather straps but beyond the grandest of grand touring appearance are the fundamentals you want for example, the doors are unaltered from the original Mercury Cougar body, the same goes for much of the main glass and underlying components, so maintaining this one - of - a-kind appearance is much easier than it might first seem.

For example, her original query letter draft didn't say that hers was the first book written by a woman airline pilot captain in the modern day era.

A modern example: First Lady Jackie Kennedy started using the phrase «Camelot» to describe her husband's brief and tragically interrupted term in the White House, and her marriage to President John Kennedy was not without its trials and infidelities.

It is the first example of the modern novel and it is credited as being the inspiration for much of the work that came later.

«Joining a network of 33 Novotel in the UK, this unique hotel is a shining example of our ambition to create innovative, guest - focused, sustainable accommodation that caters for the changing requirements of the modern - day guest as well as providing first - rate services for the local population.»

For example: First Person Shooters include Goldeneye, Halo, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

Following a celebrity - studded launch party at London's Old Billingsgate Market, featuring a PA from chart - topping rapper Example, 574 Game and Gamestation stores across the country opened specially to sell the first copies of Modern Warfare 3 to punters queuing outside.

The first edition of the Yokohama Triennale, for example, featured Tsubaki Noboru and Muroi Hisashi's suspended giant grasshopper The Insect World / Locust that was hung outside Yokohama's Grand Intercontinental Hotel; Anita Dube's sombre installation His Master's Voice, which meditated on India's modern history through its array of furniture covered in a thick layer of dusk, and Cai Guo - Qiang's Fireworks from Heaven, which featured reclining massage chairs from which viewers gazed on a display of artificial fireworks.

During that decade collectors had the opportunity to buy first - rate examples of Cuban Modernism at important galleries such as Perls and Pierre Matisse, while MoMA's groundbreaking Modern Cuban Painters exhibition in 1944 showcased the full breadth of the island's artistic talents.

On view are examples of the Black Paintings series, with which he announced himself to the New York art world in the Museum of Modern Art's 1959 «Sixteen Americans» exhibition, as well as works from his Aluminum and Copper series, unveiled in his first and second solo shows at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1960 and 1962.

For example, Scott Goodson is the founder of the world's first cultural movement agency and his blog gives great insight into the world of modern marketing.

The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945 at Barbican Art Gallery is the first major UK exhibition to focus on Japanese domestic architecture from the end of the Second World War to today, a field which has consistently produced some of the most influential and extraordinary examples of modern and contemporary design.

Inescapably modern, it is a pioneering example of abstract sculpture, and was Belling's first real success.

With more than 100 works by 16 artists, Debating Modern Photography is the first exhibition to provide a substantial consideration of the group since 1992, and is unique in its inclusion of pictorialist examples to illustrate the debate.

Other examples of the Neo-Dadaist-style «junk art» include Hudson River Landscape (1951, Whitney Museum of American Art) and Australia (1951, MoMA, NY), both by David Smith (1906 - 1965); Untitled (wood, metal pieces, nails)(1960, Museum of Modern Art NYC) by Jesus Rafael Soto (b. 1923); and certain «combines» by Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008), such as First Landing Jump (made from: painting, cloth, metal, leather, electric fixture, cable, oil paint, board)(1961, MoMA, NY).

The first example of this was Bell and Navels (1931, Museum of Modern Art, New York).

The latter was America's first permanent museum of modern art, and included masterpieces by Romantic artists such as Francisco Goya and Eugene Delacroix; Impressionist paintings by Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Pierre - Auguste Renoir and Pierre Bonnard; works by Expressionist painters including Paul Klee, Van Gogh and Modigliani; and examples of Cubism by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso; as well as a range of American art by the likes of Albert Pinkham Ryder, Thomas Eakins and Mark Rothko.

It was evident from the research I needed to do that Stern produced perhaps the first example of a post modern economic report which is perhaps appropriate for a post modern science.

«Researchers first became intrigued by abrupt climate change when they discovered striking evidence of large, abrupt, and widespread changes preserved in paleoclimatic archives... The chapter concludes with examples of modern climate change and techniques for observing it.

The first working group analyzed international examples regarding the incorporation of modern technologies into the justice system in order to identify the extent to which it has been successful in increasing access to justice.