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 ).

" A woman cannot be herself in modern society ," he argues, since it is " an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint.

Pronouns show distinctions in person ( 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ), number ( singular, dual, and plural in the ancient language ; singular and plural alone in later stages ), and gender ( masculine, feminine, and neuter ), and decline for case ( from six cases in the earliest forms attested to four in the modern language ).

Middle Indo-Aryan languages ( named MIA ) generally had three genders ( masculine, feminine and neuter ), and some modern Indo-Aryan languages retain this old system even today.

Although the deity's name is masculine in Nahuatl, some modern scholars have interpreted some representations of Tlaltecuhtli as exhibiting female characteristics, particularly his typical pose which they interpret as the characteristic position of a woman giving birth.

Middle Indo-Aryan languages ( named MIA ) generally had three genders ( masculine, feminine and neuter ), and some modern Indo-Aryan languages retain this old system even today.

( In modern times, the masculine bias in Confucianism may have weakened, but the same term is still used ; the masculine translation in English is also traditional and still frequently used.

In Galicia, Latin pons, a masculine word, became feminine, hence Vulgar Latin Ponte Vetera, which became by the 13th century the modern Galician language toponymy Pontevedra, " the old bridge ", in reference to an old Roman bridge across the Lérez river.

The common name has been said to come from the Welsh word for a snipe, giach ( pronounced with a hard g ), but modern dictionaries say it comes from the masculine name Jack.

Haakon ( also spelled Håkon, Hakon, Hákon, Håkan or Haco ) is an older spelling of the modern Norwegian form of the Old Norwegian masculine first name Hákon meaning " High Son " from há ( high ) and konr ( son ).

In modern usage, most noun roots are lexically neuter, a couple dozen are lexically masculine, and a smaller number lexically feminine.

In sections titled " Body ", " Soul ", " Love " and " Hate " Greer examines historical definitions of women's perception of self and uses a premise of imposed limitations to critique modern consumer societies, female " normality ", and masculine shaping of stereotypes quoting, " The World has lost its soul, and I my sex.

There were also three grammatical genders ( masculine, feminine and neuter ), while there are only two in modern Swedish.

Also factoring into this preference was the belief that modern Rajasthani sporadically expressed a neuter gender, based on the incorrect conclusion that the that came to be pronounced in some areas for masculine after a nasal consonant was analogous to Gujarati's neuter.

Sidi is a masculine title of respect, meaning " my master " in Western Arabic language and Egyptian Arabic ( sayyid in other dialects ) equivalent to modern popular usage of the English Mr ..

His book " Ritual " contains evidence to support how secret keeping and ' initiation rites ' in native societies in modern times are about leaving the world of the feminine, entering the masculine world.

* The word dinas ( plural-oedd ) in modern Welsh is a feminine noun meaning " city ", but in Old and Middle Welsh it is a masculine noun meaning " fort or citadel ", and this is the meaning in the above Welsh place-names.

" In addition to distinguishing this type of love from homosexuality (" this other Greek licence "), another way in which Montaigne differed from the modern view was that he felt that friendship and platonic emotion were a primarily masculine capacity ( apparently unaware of the custom of female romantic friendship which also existed ):

In Arabic, which has no infinitives, the third person singular masculine of the past tense is the least-marked form, and is used for entries in modern dictionaries.