Sentences with phrase «modern counterparts»

According to our most current statistics, even some models from the mid-1990s have a greater chance of getting stolen than their modern counterparts.

Unlike their modern counterparts, their nineteenth - century lordships (or at least their early nineteenth - century lordships) did not seem to think that they were bound by the text of the earlier decision.»

Contrary to the power industry's claims, requiring older plants to install the same cooling technology as their modern counterparts would cost consumers pennies or at most a few dollars per month on household electric bills.

As a general note, while I've never really been into pattern - based shooter hell games from the classic arcade and beyond, I am a huge fan of many classic arcade shooters and their modern counterparts.

4) Calling John Henry and his modern counterparts: can traders be replaced by computer algorithms?

The concept is pretty interesting and somewhat novel: the original X-Men as created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby — Iceman, Cyclops, Angel, Beast and Jean Grey as teenaged school children — travel forward in time and space (and hopefully Bendis remembers the «space» part, otherwise the X-Men will wake up gasping with their blood boiling somewhere off the shoulder of Orion) to the current Marvel Universe and meet their modern counterparts.

With the third installment in author Jacqueline Winspear's mystery series, Maisie Dobbs takes her place in the upper echelon of literary female detectives, right next to Kinsey Millhone and Kay Scarpetta — the main difference being that unlike her thoroughly modern counterparts, Maisie Dobbs lives in post-World War I London.

Along with her personal journey, she offers a quick trip through the history of swimming, with fascinating tidbits about swimmers of old and their modern counterparts.

This single overhead camshaft engine, which dates back to the 1990s, was certainly not as efficient as its modern counterparts, but nevertheless rose to (almost) any challenge.

Its a sleeker, more curvaceous SUV and like most of its modern counterparts, the spare wheel has found shelter under the tailgate.

These resources focus on a range of ancient Greek and Roman women and their modern counterparts.

Below, Geekosystem has put 15 video game companies» old - school logos side - by - side with their modern counterparts.

Early efforts It Happened One Night, The Philadelphia Story, The Seven Year Itch and Breakfast at Tiffany's regaled viewers for decades; however most of their modern counterparts are too awful to endure.

During this time, there was a lot of «evolutionary experimentation», with many ancient communities dominated by alien - looking creatures unlike any of their modern counterparts.

They also matured up to 5 years earlier than their modern counterparts and grew to twice their current size of 100 kilograms.

Last June, researchers reported in Science that the seed germinated after planting and developed much like its modern counterparts.

«Each scan is a new discovery,» Tafforeau says, yet the ancient insects appear, overall, remarkably similar to their modern counterparts; they differ chiefly in detail.

Here, six of the candidates for de-extinction, and the modern counterparts that could shepherd them into being.

In contrast, one of the extinct groups of kangaroos in the study — the sthenurines, which lived 100,000 years ago — lacked many of the locomotory features of their modern counterparts, including a flexible backbone, a sturdy tail, and forelimbs capable of supporting their body weight.

His other problem seems to be that he can not be as ruthless as his modern counterparts.

If you want a response to the above «rant»; you are so right, Wenger is not the passionate, motivating, directing, managing type of manager during games the way we see his modern counterparts (Pep, Klop, Conte, Mourinho).

Appearing hardier and more informal than their modern counterparts, skiers were loaded on logging trucks at the station and taken to various slopes in the area.

Biblical torah repeatedly finds modern counterparts in the complex systems of Western law.

A wide array of modern minds have thought the same: Hegel lamented that philosophy is no longer «practiced as a private art, as it was by the Greeks,» Heidegger called for a return to the Greek grammar of being, and Kant claimed that «the ancient Greek philosophers remained more faithful to the Idea of the philosopher than their modern counterparts have done.»

You insist your god exists, yet we can prove he does not exist at all and is only a con - artist's story to bewilder and hypnotize you into following and giving away your wealth, life, etc. to these con - artists modern counterparts.

Here again there are modern counterparts and derivatives, for apart from foundations in a God of supreme power, righteousness and grace who is implicated in the suffering of his people, who condemns their sin yet offers release, prophetic preaching today escapes from soporific optimism only to fall into moral diatribe.

In many ways the rise of the new state of Israel is the modern counterpart of the use of the idiom of resurrection to express in metaphorical form the hope of an historical renewal after the national life has been near to the point of extinction.

But this took much longer than its modern counterpart.

That's why doomsayers like Thomas Malthus and his modern counterpart, biologist Paul Ehrlich, have been proven wrong again and again.

Clint and Jared (along with returning guest Craig) polish off Horror Octorbor with their final double feature of a Universal classic monster movie and its modern counterpart!

Modern counterpart: The Kindle, the Nook, Sony's Readers, and every other current gadget for reading digital tomes... even though they all cost a lot more than $ 2.

It's a tall order, but like we said, it's inevitable that the game will be compared to its modern counterpart.

Not exact matches

The analysis is part of Reveal's ongoing coverage of modern - day redlining in America, which found 61 metro area s, from Jacksonville, Florida to Tacoma, Washington, where people of color were significantly more likely to be denied a conventional home loan than their white counterparts.

The job of modern - day central bankers — Bernanke, King, Draghi and their global counterparts — is to decide how to control a «beneficial chain reaction» without it getting out of hand, he answers.

Modern banks, even prior to the recent crisis, have generally had to keep somewhat higher reserve ratios than their pre-1845 Scottish counterparts, mainly owing to the fact, mentioned above, that they must stock their cash machines and tills with base money, instead of being able to do so using their own circulating banknotes.

While our modern shaving tools, including the razors, best shaving soap or shaving cream, and shaving brushes may definitely still not be perfect, the following infographic covering the history of shaving should show you just how lucky we are compared to our historical counterparts.

Jesus was a radical jew, however unlike his modern day counterparts, he was mild humble, mild - mannered, softspoken, practices what he preached — a truly godlike figure!

However, unlike his modern day counterparts, he was genuine, humble, soft - spoken, reasonable and practized what he preached — a truely God - like figure.

Though the postmodern author, unlike his medieval counterpart, doesn't refuse to sign the text (and receives, or should receive, royalties), there is a weakening of the authorial element that asserted itself for so long in the modern age.

I know both Modern Greek and Modern Hebrew beter than their Ancient counterparts.

Among the most potent was the one launched by the mad sophists of the modern age» those radicals who promised, at long last, to make us at home in the world, not by reconciling us to its imperfections, as their ancient counterparts had proposed to do, but by transforming the world into a post «political paradise.

Modern European dogs still share heritage with Stone Age canines on the continent, hinting that all the pups came from a common source rather than separately domesticated Asian dogs replacing their European counterparts.

Modern astronomers have long speculated that their 17th century counterparts had observed a nova — an exploding white dwarf.

Along with Michael Faraday, Rutherford was the greatest experimentalist in modern history and the twentieth century's experimental counterpart to Einstein.

If you want to take a modern photo that will contrast effectively with its historical counterpart, though, you need to ensure it is taken from the same spot, and with the same zoom level.

Wild Relative Ancestors or cousins of modern crops, usually the same species as their farmed counterparts.

Among these many differences, Neanderthals were shorter and stockier, with wider pelvises and rib - cages than their modern human counterparts.

The study revealed the shocking insight that we modern slackers burn a similar number of calories (pound for pound, of course) as our seemingly harder working, traditionally living counterparts.

Tantra, and its modern primarily sex - focused counterpart Neotantra, teach that lovemaking, when entered into with awareness, is a gateway to both sexual and spiritual transcendence.

Key Insight: During each of these studies, those actually on the paleo diet were consuming overall fewer calories than their dietary counterparts (who were on more «modern» diets).