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 ).

This Kingdom of Burgundy, which under Conrad's successors would become known as the Kingdom of Arles, corresponded to most of the southeastern quarter of modern France and included western Switzerland, the Franche-Comté and Dauphiné.

Whatever the claims of various modern ethnic groups, many of the peoples once known as the Scythians of Antiquity were amalgamated into the various Slavic peoples of eastern and southeastern Europe.

It was established in its modern form in 1981 and is located in the northwestern part of the country, respectively the southeastern part of the Alpine massif.

Cilicia extends inland from the southeastern coast of modern Turkey, due north and northeast of the island of Cyprus.

He stayed there for two weeks, and then moved northwards, following the coast up to modern Maine, southeastern Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, after which he returned to France by 8 July 1524.

In modern times it has been more generally applied to all the lands between the Euphrates and the Tigris, thereby incorporating not only parts of Syria but also almost all of Iraq and southeastern Turkey.

File: TraditionalChineseWeddingDress. jpg | Qing dynasty-style traditional southeastern Chinese wedding dress ( still used in modern day weddings.

The " sheep radical " 羊 is seen in Qiang 羌 " shepherd ; Qiang people " and Jie 羯 " castrated ; Jie people "; the " insect / reptile radical " 虫 is in both Man 蠻 " southern barbarians " and Min 閩 " southeastern barbarians " ( see Fujian # History ); and the " cat / beast radical " 豸 is in Mo 貊 " leopard ; northeastern barbarians " ( modern Huimo 濊貊 " Yemaek people ").

This arrangement of two parallel subduction zones is unusual in that very few twin subduction zones exist on Earth ; the Philippine Mobile Belt off the southeastern coast of Asia is an example of a modern twin subduction zone.

" Recent genetic analysis comparing DNA samples of ancient Thracian fossil material from southeastern Romania with individuals from modern ethnicities place Italian, Albanian and Greek individuals in closer genetic kinship with the Thracians than Romanian and Bulgarian individuals.

The small Hurrian kingdom of Arraphka, of which modern Kirkuk was the capital, was situated along the southeastern edge of the area under Aryan Mittanian domination.

The Libyan Desert is barely populated apart from the modern settlements at oases of the lower Cyrenaica region in southeastern Libya.

At its height, Plymouth Colony occupied most of the southeastern portion of the modern state of Massachusetts.

Sun Quan, who controlled the vast majority of modern southeastern and southern China, did not take any affirmative steps one way or another, leaving his options open.

These were the so-called germani cisrhenani, who in modern terms lived in the region of modern eastern Belgium, the southeastern Netherlands, and stretching into Germany towards the Rhine.

The extent of the realm corresponds to modern southern Serbia, southeastern Bosnia, eastern Herzegovina and Konavli.

Since 1976, continuing archaeological excavations concentrated in the southeastern part of modern Gyeongju have revealed parts of the so-called Silla Wanggyeong ( Silla royal capital ).

He then persuaded the people of the county to join the rebellion, and they headed north and had victories over the forces of the Principality of Chengyang ( modern southeastern Shandong ).

or was a province of Japan which consisted of a peninsula in the southeastern part of modern Mie Prefecture.

In 249, the powerful general Wang Ling, who was in charge of the key southeastern city of Shouchun ( 壽春, in modern Lu ' an, Anhui ) began to plan a revolt against Sima's hold on power, in association with Cao Biao ( 曹彪 ), the Prince of Chu and a son of Cao Cao ( whom he planned to replace Cao Fang with as emperor ).

Compare southeastern Middle Dutch hiwen with modern Dutch huwen.

He tried to persuade Gan Zhuo ( 甘卓 ), the governor of Liang Province ( 梁州, then consisting of modern northwestern Hubei and southeastern Shaanxi ) and Sima Cheng ( 司馬承 ) the governor of Xiang Province to join him, and while both resisted, neither was effective in their campaigns against his rear guards.

In 1864, with the formation of the Montana Territory, the southeastern section of the Idaho Territory ( most of modern Wyoming ) became briefly part of Dakota Territory once again, although a strip of land along the western border of what would become Wyoming remained part of the Idaho Territory.