Sentences with phrase «modern examples of»

There are modern examples of juries arriving at decisions which have helped shape the UK's constitution but were initially difficult to reconcile with the stated position of UK Government at the time of the trial.

With the exception of the US and Canada, every Democratic nation in the Americas has at some point in its history fallen into tyranny, as have many elsewhere throughout the world such as the Roman Republic all the way through more modern examples of western nations including Germany and France.

Modern examples of environmental art stem from landscape painting and representation.

**** The parallels between the Salem witch trials and more modern examples of «witch hunting» like the McCarthy hearings of the 1950's, are remarkable.

Modern examples of terrorism and terrorist activity are discussed and contextualised.

This lesson has pupils research modern examples of miracles and prepare presentations to evaluate the their viability.

Excellent modern examples of what Church could be for young Christians, with an opportunity for students to use sources of wisdom and authority and reflect on SMSC.

Modern examples of the process include the clay models of Chicken Run and Tim Burton's The Nightmare before Christmas.

There are many modern examples of rich, hot messes catered to by behind - the - scenes people generously compensated to look after them, often ending with premature death and glamorized legacies.

Most of the modern examples of pumpernickel bread include a mixture of rye and wheat flour and are darkened with caramel coloring or cocoa so that they look like the original.

The courts, at least, deemed the modern examples of Divine Inspiration as insantiy.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

I take these incidents to be two of many modern examples of demon possession and exorcism.

C. S. Lewis offers a modern example of effective apologetics in an unchurched world.

He sees Santayana as a perfect modern example of this tendency (see PR 48 and 158).

A great modern example of how to «sin no more» is by following a 12 step program.

The opponents of the constitutional convention are a modern example of the old saying that «politics makes strange bedfellows».

I wonder if early examples of high intensity training being used is rather different than modern example of doing similar style of training.

NO is the story of how in 1988, a group of dedicated and media - savvy people took a sham election in Chile and turned it into a bloodless coup that remains the only modern example of removing a dictator using only the power of the ballot box.

A modern example of school discipline in North America and Western Europe relies upon the idea of an assertive teacher who is prepared to impose their will upon a class.

A logbook loan is a form of secured lending in the United Kingdom and is the most common modern example of a security bill of sale.

Villa Saasil is a beautiful, modern example of simple luxury.

You can see a modern example of how it can sometimes go awry even in innoctuous innocuous ways within FFXV.

Words with Friends is a modern example of this technique, but the practice goes back decades if not centuries (if you include play - by - mail board games).

(As with the Lake Nyos CO2 eruption, there is a small - scale modern example of this: occasional hydrogen sufide «belches» occur off the Namibian coast, though none so far has killed or even injured anyone.)

Not exact matches

Online health insurer Oscar Health is a prime example of how payers use modern technology and a customer - centric approach to drive growth and retention.

Axe's «Susan Glenn «is a perfect example of a modern story that was shared across various media platforms.

For example, Istanbul and Dubai are gateways to the modern Middle East, a market that is growing faster than (and is younger and bigger than) that of the United States.

Some might scoff at the idea of using emojis and jokes about modern tech to communicate, but these are just small examples of Coach K's ability to communicate in a way that his players understand and appreciate.

Today it remains a landmark collection of some of the best examples of mid-century modern architecture in the city, and it has the real estate prices to prove it, with average home prices of almost $ 2.4 million.

The press tour was a scary example of what modern athletes will do for money.

For example, American Giant partners with Carolina Cotton Works in Gaffney, S.C., a mill that exports 75 percent of its product and is considered one of the most modern yarning facilities in the world.

His experiments, writes Tim Harford, «are a modern classic in evolutionary biology, and a striking example of how a population adapts to a new problem.»

In its release describing the initiative, the Attorney General's office cited examples of pimps and sex trafficking rings who posted pictures of minors on websites like Backpage and Craigslist, describing the practice as «modern day slavery.»

A better modern example is Japan, the miracle economy of the 1980s (just as the U.S. was in the 1990s and naughties).

The New Rules of Sales and Service is written with dozens of examples from people who are achieving tremendous success with the five important aspects of modern selling and customer service.

«a welcome change from the standard business books... Scott and Halligan provide examples of modern - day companies that are illustrating the lessons.»

With all due respect to Fred Wilson, another true believer — and, to be clear, an enormous amount of respect is due — it says a lot that, in the midst of this massive boom, he's citing «Rare Pepe Cards,» of all things, as a prime example of an interesting modern blockchain app.

NIA looks like it has a lot of good information mixed with bad, but they're still a bunch of crackpots wailing about hyperinflation with little regard for the historical profligacies it takes to cause the levels they're afraid (or for a more modern example the comedic horror tale that is Venezuela).

There are a number of examples in Canadian case law where issuers were attempting to sell «utilities» or something similar to modern day tokens and coins, where the court simply didn't buy the argument.

The series also included the example of a modern banking model that combined characteristics of both the fragmented 19th century US and great resilience, thanks to its peculiar liability - sharing, funds transfer mechanism and cross-control structure: the German Sparkassen Finanzgruppe (saving banks group; see post here).

If you were truly reasonable, you would read the best examples of Christian philosophy - whether Aquinas (from the classical period) or modern writers such as Ravi Zacharias, R.C. Sproul, or even a popularizer like C.S. Lewis.

The modern day example of a super star on a platform whose hand you occaisionally shake doesn't work.

Francis points to the destruction of species and entire ecosystems as examples of a «cheerful recklessness» (59) that characterizes modern financial and industrial culture.

Another example of why modern citizens of the world reject Judaism — its laughable tribal rituals used to subjugate women.

Give me an example of anyone «forcing» a belief on anybody in the modern world.

Also, the Bible has basic elements of good vs. evil, and for the purpose of a sermon (ie a pastoral message meant to convey some sort of spiritual lesson), having a good modern day example of Christian symbolism is always a fun tool to use to keep a congregation interested.

Your examples of atheists — Lenin, Stalin and Mao — are all relatively modern.

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.

For example, in addition to having higher levels of genetic diversity, populations in Africa tend to have lower amounts of linkage disequilibrium than do populations outside Africa, partly because of the larger size of human populations in Africa over the course of human history and partly because the number of modern humans who left Africa to colonize the rest of the world appears to have been relatively low (Gabriel et al. 2002).