The state economy in the 21st century is dependent on management, finance, manufacturing, aerospace, mineral extraction, healthcare, education, retail, and technology.

After the fall of the Akkadian empire in the mid 21st century BC, the Assyrians who were the northern branch of the Akkadian people, colonised parts of the region between the 21st and mid 18th centuries BC and claimed the resources, notably silver.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a prominent Nigerian author of the 21st century.

Until this point Austria and Switzerland had been the traditional and more popular destinations for winter sports, but by the end of the 20th century and into the early 21st century, France, Italy and the Tyrol began so see increases in winter visitors.

Architect and buildings in 21st century ( 1910 card )

In the early 21st century, Johnson is among those commonly mentioned as the worst presidents in U. S. history.

This document was based on several years of consultation aimed to lay out the government's priorities for museums in the 21st century.

This trend might have stopped since the turn of the 21st century.

The first commercial equipment for HR-CS AAS was introduced by Analytik Jena ( Jena, Germany ) at the beginning of the 21st century, based on the design proposed by Becker-Ross and Florek.

Berlin Mitte skyline in the 21st century.

Their high cost meant that few were built and the 1950s-designed B-52s continued in use into the 21st century.

The Mach 2 Tu-160 ' Blackjack ' was built only in tiny numbers, leaving the 1950s Tupolev Tu-16 and Tu-95 ' Bear ' heavy bombers to continue being used into the 21st century.

In the 21st century, the more senior bishops of the Church of England continue to sit in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as representatives of the established church, and are known as Lords Spiritual.

By the turn of the 21st century, Battery Park City was mostly completed, with the exception of some ongoing construction on West Street.

Having declined from more than one million speakers around 1950 to about 200, 000 in the first decade of the 21st century, of whom 61 % are more than 60 years old, Breton is classified as " severely endangered " by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

* Shock and Awe, the 21st century American military doctrine

That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.

Animal communication, and indeed the understanding of the animal world in general, is a rapidly growing field, and even in the 21st century so far, a great share of prior understanding related to diverse fields such as personal symbolic name use, animal emotions, animal culture and learning, and even sexual conduct, long thought to be well understood, has been revolutionized.

As of the early 21st century, Christianity has approximately 2. 2 billion adherents.

First attested in depictions on a cylinder-seal from around the 21st century BC, it was explicitly recorded in the Babylonian star catalogues as " The Goat-Fish " before 1000 BC.

Canals have found another use in the 21st century, as easements for the installation of fibre optic telecommunications network cabling, avoiding having them buried in roadways while facilitating access and reducing the hazard of being damaged from digging equipment.

Traditionally, throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, these were published in newspapers, with horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in daily newspapers, while Sunday newspapers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections.

It is a system of moral, social, political, and religious thought that has had tremendous influence on Chinese history, thought, and culture down to the 21st century.

For example, the role of viruses in marine ecosystems is barely being explored even in the beginning of the 21st century.

A classic example of 21st century propaganda, Fahrenheit 9 / 11 is overtly political and never tries to hide the director's anti-war agenda.

For example, a coin minted in 2009 would bear the date Heisei 21 ( the 21st year of Emperor Akihito's reign ).

For example, in 1933 H. G. Wells postulated in The Shape of Things to Come a Second World War in which Nazi Germany and Poland are evenly matched militarily, fighting an indecisive war over ten years ; and Poul Anderson's early 1950s Psychotechnic League depicted a world undergoing a devastating nuclear war in 1958, yet by the early 21st century managing not only to rebuild the ruins on Earth but also engage in extensive space colonization of the Moon and several planets.

The experiences of dollarization in countries with weak economies and currencies ( for example Israel in the 1980s, Eastern Europe and countries in the period immediately after the collapse of the Soviet bloc, or South American countries throughout the late 20th and early 21st century ) may be seen as Gresham's Law operating in its reverse form ( Guidotti & Rodriguez, 1992 ), since in general the dollar has not been legal tender in such situations, and in some cases its use has been illegal.

In the 21st century, coats of arms are still in use by a variety of institutions and individuals ; for example, universities have guidelines on how their coats of arms may be used, and protect their use as trademarks.

For example, the Lanmadaw Road is followed by-wide 17th and 18th streets then the medium Sint-Oh-Dan Road, the 30-foot 19th and 20th streets, followed by another wide Latha Road, followed again by the two numbered small roads 21st and 22nd streets, and so on.

" Baroness " is incorrect for female holders of Scottish Lordships of Parliament, who are not Baronesses ; for example, the 21st Lady Saltoun is known as " Lady Saltoun ", not " Baroness Saltoun ".

In the early 21st century, tactical frivolity was often used at much smaller events than global summits, for example by the group Billionaires for Bush who would stage humorous events at US Republican conventions.

The Selfridges department store is a prime example of the early 21st century movement referred to as " blobitecture ", and has been compared to Peter Cook's Kunsthaus in Graz, Austria.

This ordinal numbering is still present in the names of the millennia and centuries, for example 1st Millennium or the 20th century, and sometimes in the names of decades, e. g. 1st decade of the 21st century.

An example in the United States around the turn of the 21st century were the Chick-fil-A billboards ( a chicken sandwich fast food chain ), which had three-dimensional cow figures in the act of painting the billboards with misspelled anti-beef slogans such as " frendz don't let frendz eat beef.

One such example is the clock spider urban legend from the early years of the 21st century.

Zapiski o XX i XXI wieku (" In the Whirlpools of History: Jottings on the 20th and the 21st Centuries "; Cracow, Znak, 2007 ) is a compilation of interviews and lectures, reflecting Kapuściński's training as a historian and dealing with contemporary issues and their historical and cross-cultural parallels ( including such issues as globalisation, Islam, the birth of the Third World, and the dawn of the Pacific civilisation ). Kapuściński's pronouncements on current affairs were noteworthy: he thought that the causes of the 9 / 11 tragedy, for example, were too complex to lend themselves to an exhaustively thorough analysis at present, although he offered an extensive and sophisticated exposition of some of the key elements of the puzzle in " Zderzenie cywilizacji " ( The Clash of Civilisations ); he told a BBC interviewer right after the attacks: " I greatly fear that we will waste this moment.

* In the 20th and 21st centuries, liberal Reform and Reconstructionist rabbis have fostered novel approaches to Jewish ethics, for example in the writings of Eugene Borowitz.

A number of 21st century devices use accelerometers to align the screen depending on the direction the device is held, for example switching between portrait and landscape modes.

In the early 21st Century, pro-choice groups and commentators have attempted to use St Brigid as an example of a Catholic role model who performed an abortion-Choice Ireland proclaimed her as " Ireland's first abortionist " on her feast day in 2008.

At the start of the 21st century, the municipal government and the Municipal Committee of the CPC emphasized repeatedly that more schools should be set up following the example of Nankai High School and Yaohua High School.

For example, during World War II, the Southern Group of Armies ( also known as the U. S. 6th Army Group ) comprised the U. S. Seventh Army and the French First Army ; the 21st Army Group comprised the British Second Army, the Canadian First Army and the US Ninth Army.

For example in March this year a small group of National Leaders of Education enrolled on the college ’ s fellowship programme worked together for a week to address the question: ‘ How can the school system develop the most effective number of trusts / federations / chains and what would be the associated accountability framework ?’ As part of the recent 21st Century Schools White Paper, the college has been asked to lead a leadership and partnership national support programme to provide localised support for emerging partnerships between schools and others.

Taking its example from other European modernists like Joan Miró, the Color Field movement encompasses several decades from the mid 20th century through the early 21st century.

Thus the old and the new have collided in Boryeong, making it a wonderful example of " Dynamic Korea ", the governments phrase to describe Korea in the 21st century.

The Luftwaffe flightcrew of a B / C-equipped Ju 88 R-1 night fighter, Werknummer 360 043, defected in April 1943 and landed in Scotland, presenting a working example of the German radar for the first time, with the aircraft itself, still in existence as of the 21st century, becoming a museum exhibit in the UK.

Here is an example of such a generic formulation, from Materia Medica by William Hale-White & A. H. Douthwaite, 21st edition ( 1932 ):