Not discussed here are some military problems of modern times such as undersea warfare, where the surveillance, sending, transmitting, and receiving are all so inadequate that networks and decision making are not the bottlenecks.

Over these voluntary agencies, in 1917-18, the CTCA served as a co-ordinating body in carrying out what Survey called `` the most stupendous piece of social work in modern times ''.

Those modern scholars who urge that we must keep in mind the fundamental continuity of Aegean development from earliest times -- granted occasional irruptions of peoples and ideas from outside -- are correct ; ;

True, we do not know how they were regarded in their day, but we need not believe the epic audience to have been more insensitive to the formulas than the numerous scholars of modern times who have read Germanic or Homeric poetry all their lives and still found much to admire in occasional occurrences of the most familiar phrases.

In modern times, some idioms refer to the ocean in a humorously diminutive way as the Pond, describing both the geographical and cultural divide between North America and Europe, in particular between the English-speaking nations of both continents.

And to " measure " is to place a shorter measuring length s successively ( q times ) along longer length l until the remaining portion r is less than the shorter length s. In modern words, remainder r = l − q * s, q being the quotient, or remainder r is the " modulus ", the integer-fractional part left over after the division.

In modern times, rivers do not generally flood as often in areas employing flood control.

According to Tillich, the last of these three types of existential anxiety, i. e. spiritual anxiety, is predominant in modern times while the others were predominant in earlier periods.

Until modern times there was no clear distinction between the architect and engineer.

Prior to modern times, there was no distinction between architects, engineers and often artists, and the title used varied depending on geographical location.

Trinitarianism remained the dominant doctrine in all major branches of the Eastern and Western Church and later within Protestantism until modern times.

To quote the Encyclopædia Britannicas article on Arianism: " In modern times some Unitarians are virtually Arians in that they are unwilling either to reduce Christ to a mere human being or to attribute to him a divine nature identical with that of the Father.

In modern times, the largest Andean cities are Bogota, Colombia, with a population of about eight million, La Paz, Bolivia, and Quito, Ecuador.

Locally, the relatives of the camel, the llama, and the alpaca continue to carry out important uses as pack animals, but this use has generally diminished in modern times.

Ambergris is the waxy aromatic substance created in the intestines of sperm whales and was used in making perfumes both in ancient times as well as modern.

In former times the alphorn maker would find a tree bent at the base in the shape of an alphorn, but modern makers piece the wood together at the base.

As an English name, it has been in use since the Middle Ages, though it was not popular until modern times.

In many parts of the world, acropoleis became the nuclei of large cities of classical antiquity, such as ancient Rome, which in more recent times grew up on the surrounding lower ground, such as modern Rome.

The glyphs most commonly used in conjunction with the Latin script since early modern times are < big > 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 </ big >.

Sophocles and Euripides ( and in more modern times, Corneille ) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art.

Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat, while in modern times, its main use is that of a recreational activity.

Including an account of the most famous archers of ancient and modern times ; with some curious particulars in the life of Robert Fitz-Ooth Earl of Huntington, vulgarly called Robin Hood .... York: printed for E. Hargrove, bookseller, Knaresbro ' ( later editions: York, 1845 and facsimile reprint, London: Tabard Press, 1970 )

Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times, and there is a longstanding debate about his authorship of one of these plays, Prometheus Bound.

In Roman times, a main route ran south from the Baltic coast in through the land of the Boii ( modern Czech Republic and Slovakia ) to the head of the Adriatic Sea ( modern Gulf of Venice ).

Though most modern vendors serve only the bigger 1 / 4 " pearls, they still use " pearl tea " as the name.

One of the most ubiquitous accessories in modern China, after a wallet or purse and an umbrella, is a double-walled insulated glass thermos with tea leaves in the top behind a strainer.

In 1900, Com married David Elkington, one of her many suitors who owned a tea plantation in British-occupied Ceylon ( modern Sri Lanka ).

Makoto Hagiwara of Golden Gate Park's Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco is reported to have been the first person in the USA to have served the modern version of the cookie when he did so at the tea garden in the 1890s or early 1900s.

Others will use tea or tobacco stains to brown or age their modern missives.

Often decorated with lace or log cabin motifs in the early 1900s, the modern tea cosy has come back into fashion with the resurgence of loose leaf tea ateliers.

This word is still used in modern tea communities in Taiwan and the People's Republic of China to denote tea.

In modern China, virtually every dwelling — even down to the simplest mud hut — has a set of tea implements for brewing a hot cup of tea.

Among Chileans, the tradition was known as under the same name, although in modern times, it has shifted in most respects to later in the afternoon, more closely reflecting the pattern of British " tea time ".

Most modern packages can be resealed so as to keep the tea dry.

A modern cream tea.

Very large tea houses may have several tea rooms of different sizes ; a large, well-equipped mizuya resembling a modern kitchen ; a large waiting room for guests ; a welcoming area where guests are greeted and can remove and store their shoes ; separate toilets for men and women ; a changing room ; a storage room ; and possibly several anterooms as well as a garden with a roji path, an outdoor waiting area for guests and one or more privies.

A tea room may have a floor area as small as 1. 75 tatami mats ( one full tatami mat for the guests plus a tatami mat called a daime ( 台目 ), approximately 3 / 4 the length of a full tatami mat, for the portable brazier ( furo ) or sunken hearth ( ro ) to be situated and the host to sit and prepare the tea ); or as large as 10 tatami mats or more ; 4. 5 mats is generally considered the ideal in modern tea rooms.

Popular modern flavors include green tea, chocolate, and tiramisu.

In the winter time, the wine was heated in a kettle and drunk like a tea ( a practice that still has some tradition among modern vineyard workers who drink it like coffee often with a little sugar added ).

In modern mainland Chinese weddings, the bride may opt for Western dresses of any color, and later don a traditional costume for the official tea ceremony.

* Arita Kan ( 有田館 ) has an exhibition of modern art porcelain, 400 different cups for coffee or tea and a theater with computerized puppets made of porcelain.

In more recent times, the traditional drinking of Turkish coffee has been diminished by the growing availability of other hot beverages such as tea ( grown locally and bought without hard currency ), instant coffee, and other modern styles of coffee.