Sentences with phrase «modern forms of»

Interestingly, such descriptions don't match modern forms of syphilis, which is mild at least compared to its apparent earlier manifestation.

For example, the rites of cicatrization (the inducement of scars), genital mutilation, and teeth gouging practiced today in some primitive cultures are analogous to modern forms of extreme body modification, needle sharing, and gang initiation rituals that involve committing violent or criminal acts.

Since some people no longer believe that fiat currency is a legitimate store of value, modern forms of tangible money are seeing record price levels, such as Bitcoins and (electronic statements of) gold and silver holdings.

It should not be a surprise then that other, more modern forms of speculation have taken the lead.

Companies who are new to online and modern forms of advertising often mimic the successes of competing companies.

(c) Rap and other modern forms of music also have more bass content.

Meanwhile, some regions around the world have seen the return of forests and grasslands, as rising agricultural productivity and the transition from biomass to modern forms of energy have reduced or eliminated the need of marginal farmland and forests for food and energy.

And with large segments of the developing world without access to modern forms of energy, Mr. Annan says that meeting the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving, by 2015, the proportion of the world's population living on less than $ 1 a day would depend on providing these people with access to modern energy services for their basic needs and for income generation.

Business as usual scenarios are projecting that by 2030, over 600 million people across sub-saharan Africa will remain without access to modern forms of energy.

In wealthier countries with modern forms of intensive agriculture, large fractions of nitrogen and phosphorus applied to fields, often more than half, never make it into the crop itself.

Foucault's rich vocabulary at the beginning of the chapter entitled «Docile Bodies,» which examines how modern forms of discipline affect the body, is particularly inspiring.

The bridge between modern art and postmodernism, Pop art employed popular imagery and modern forms of graphic art, to create a lively, high - impact idiom, which could be understood and appreciated by Joe Public.

Neo-Dada artists including Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg also developed modern forms of collage and other mixed - media works.

Her first traveling exhibition highlights «the unadorned sophistication of the sultry curves, black, satiny surfaces, and modern forms of her Dark Light series, created from 1997 to present.»

They represent some aspects of influence by European Impressionism, but then the Modern forms of Marsden Hartley form a distinct break, and that break away — of American Modernism asserting itself — was largely what Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Juliana Force were attracted to.

Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars.

What are the modern forms of eLearning?

Traditional dating is online dating vs face to face dating best defined in contrast to modern forms of dating such as online dating and speed dating.

The majority of singles agree that a phone call counts, but they were divided on more modern forms of communication:

Modern forms of exercise focus on exercising muscle.

So some archaeologists argue that the Neandertals copied modern forms of symbolic expression rather than inventing their own.

The Amsterdam - based InterAcademy Council — a group that represents 150 national scientific and engineering academies — released a report this week detailing how countries can shift from burning coal and other greenhouse - gas emitting fuels to cleaner energy while also introducing modern forms of energy to the billions worldwide who rely on charcoal, firewood or even dung as their fuel.

The entire social contract tradition on which most modern forms of government are based depends on equality of certain rights.

Indeed, they may actively define modern forms of hierarchy.

Comparisons of vocabularies and root words in the most ancient as well as modern forms of the related languages, as well as comparisons of their historically attested mythologies and lore, revealed remarkable similarities.

Power goes out and cell phone towers go down, making most modern forms of staying in touch with one another difficult.

Lutheranism can learn a lot from both the Roman roots it has discarded and modern forms of evangelism it mocks.

I should now be willing to suggest that it is a willingness to take the axiological feature as ultimately determinative for the attribution of divinity that characterizes all modern forms of so - called ethical theism and distinguishes them from the classical tradition.

Among the modern forms of religion that have developed their own sacred literatures may be found two variant types: (1) Those which, besides acknowledging as their own some already established scripture, add to it a supplementary scripture, the product of the inspiration of their own founder.

George Soros in America and Jane Kelsey in New Zealand have both referred to «market fundamentalists», by which they mean those who reject all modern forms of socialism and government interference in economic issues, and who seek a return to the free market and private enterprise of pre-modern society.

Later in the book, he seems to condemn some modern forms of philosophy as being unhelpful for developing theology.

Even modern forms of mass evangelism in which this same question is put very pointedly by the evangelist and great stress is laid upon the assurance of salvation are under suspicion by many.

For all its apparent narrowness, it bore stronger witness than many modern forms of Catholicism to realities which have come to seem to me infinitely precious.

In the years after World War I, Christians felt keenly the difference between both of these modern forms of Christology on the one hand and the historic faith of the church on the other.

With the selection of hypnotizability, modern forms of religious sentiment became possible.

Not many ex-Communists in fact posed this question, because to do so would be to undermine the presupposition that binds Marxism with all modern forms of moral calculation; «the utilitarian attention to consequences rather than to actions themselves is liable to lead to a continuous evaluation of the present only as it leads on to some future.»

And the policy, first enacted in 1975, has not been updated to address modern forms of economic insecurity.

If your time and energy is being sapped by saying «yes» to requests — that includes engaging with people over social media, which is a modern form of «people pleasing» — then you need to do a hard pivot and literally rehearse saying «no.»

Think of social media as the modern form of «word of mouth marketing».

«Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery taking place in every state across the country,» said Kevin Burch, co-chairman of TMAF and president of Jet Express, Inc. «With 3.5 million professional truck drivers on America's roads, the industry and truck drivers are in a valuable position to help identify and report possible human trafficking cases.

It's a hidden system that disguises itself as «righteous», being a modern form of sacrificial violence that lurks within the dualistic world of religion.

Again, both attempt to translate the biblical form of eschatological faith into a modern form of existential intensity.

In Europe during the last four centuries the disintegration of Christendom has led to the rise of nationalism, a modern form of tribalism.

If we are to speak theologically, must we not finally say that this image of God as Satan is either itself a satanic and all too modern form of deicide, or else a new and radical form of the Christian faith?

«We know our collective efforts are not adequate to end this modern form of slavery and therefore we must all do more.»

The dualism we find in Descartes encourages a modern form of Gnosticism.

Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi were bonded laborers (seen by many as a modern form of slavery) at a brick - making kiln who lived in a small Punjab town named for the first Anglican missionary to Pakistan.

He argued doggedly against «democratism,» the idea that majorities are always right, because he believed that democracy was the characteristically modern form of political idolatry, based on a flattery of fallen human nature.

Pre-dating post-modern art, the modern form of abstract art is, he says, trying to «unearth spiritual realities».

We are, precisely, delivered into a modern form of tradition - historical awareness by this confrontation.