Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.

Today our surging strength is apparent to everyone.

Today the recreational boating scene is awash with heartening statistics which prove the enormous growth of that sport.

Today, the boat, on its trailer, is brought to the gear and loaded at the door.

Today, according to land economist Homer Hoyt, shopping centers and their associated parking lots cover some 46,000 acres of land, which is almost exactly the total land area in all the nation's Central Business Districts put together.

Today he is a major -- in the Regular Army.

Today Northern Vietnam is overtly Communist ; ;

Today Sukarno's government is heavily besieged by avowed Communists, and for all of its `` neutralist '' pretensions, it is a firm ally of Soviet policy.

Today, Africa is swerving violently away from the West and plunging, it would seem, into the Soviet orbit.

Today it is up for grabs.

Today many college bound students try to take a course in personal typing, as they feel a certain degree of mastery of this skill is almost essential for one who proposes to do academic work in college and a professional school.

Today the yearly import into the United States of locust bean gum is more than 15 million pounds ; ;

Today it is occupied by the French Embassy.

Today, by contrast it is a lively and colorful fruit, vegetable, and flower market.

Today Dogtown is the only deserted village in all New England that I know of.

Today however, the `` outsider '' is likely to have professional qualifications of the highest order ( otherwise the college would not be interested in hiring him ) and to be acclimatized to the democratic processes of the secular or state university.

Today, more than ever before, the survival of our free society depends upon the citizen who is both informed and concerned.

Today the cancer is gone.

Today, in the era of the integrated musical when an individual song must contribute to the over-all development of the show, it is understandable that a song, no matter how excellent it may be on its own terms, is cut out because it does not perform the function required of it.

Today, as Harrison's Principles Of Internal Medicine, a standard internist's text, puts it, `` The most common form of malnutrition is caloric excess or obesity ''.

Today anthropology is a global discipline, and anthropologists study all types of societies.

Today it is regarded as an archaism and replaced by the handheld calculator.

Today, Israel is a major arms supplier to the country.

Today Ahmed I is remembered mainly for the construction of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque ( also known as the Blue Mosque ), one of the masterpieces of Islamic architecture.

Today, antisemitic themes have become commonplace in the propaganda of Arab Islamic movements such as Hizbullah and Hamas, in the pronouncements of various agencies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and even in the newspapers and other publications of Refah Partisi.

Today, Medina (" Madinah " officially in Saudi documents ), in addition to being the second most important Islamic pilgrimage destination after Mecca, is an important regional capital of the western Saudi Arabian province of Al Madinah.

Today, the Old City is under Israeli control, but the mosque remains under the administration of the Palestinian-led Islamic waqf.

" Today, Islamic philosophical thought has also been criticized by scholars of the modern Salafi movement.

Today many financial institutions, even in the Western world, that offer financial services and products in accordance with Islamic finance.

Today, the term is sometimes used as a derogatory term for any Islamic cleric.

::: Today in many countries of the world-especially in Asia-Muslim or Islamic ideology has become a driving force in the popular resistance against oppression.

Today Albania is the only entirely European member of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

Today, the region is almost 93 % Muslim and is dominated by Islamic politics, although one country ( Israel ) is mostly Jewish.

Today, Mr Baloch lives in Lahore and is the Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan's Islamic religio-political party.

He argues that " Today it is difficult, if not impossible, to identify a Muslim-majority nation that could plausibly be identified as a modern, viable and legitimate “ Islamic state ” and that " contrary to popular Muslim opinion, there is not a shred of theological, historical or empirical evidence to support the existence of such an entity.

Today, Islamic Cairo includes the Mosque of Ibn Tulun ( the oldest and largest in Cairo ), Al-Azhar University, the oldest university in the world, the Al-Hakim Mosque, and many other famous mosques and buildings.

Today, given changing political affiliations and political pressures from 1990's, and influx of non-Croat option of Bosnian Muslems, the centre is now known as the Bosnian Islamic Centre.

Today, despite having become extremely crowded and dilapidated because of the failure of the Delhi government to control migrants from moving in, it still serves as the symbolic heart of Islamic metropolitan Delhi.

Today, only two of these name-day continue to have a wide following in ( predominantly ) Islamic Iran.

Today, over 1. 5 million Iranians have chosen to leave Iran for other countries due to Islamic government's practices.

Today, contemporary theologians who were once part of the Iranian Revolution have also become disenchanted and critical of the unity of religion and state in Islamic Republic of Iran, and are advocating secularization of the state to preserve the purity of the Islamic faith ( see Abdolkarim Soroush and Mohsen Kadivar ).