Nevertheless, nationalism and sovereignty are reputed, in the accepted wisdom, to describe the modern world.

Shakespeare's Shylock, too, is of dubious value in the modern world.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

He saw the age as one in which Britain `` settled her free constitution '' and attained her modern place in the world.

This angry and exasperated stance which Patchen has maintained in his poetry for almost fifteen years has been successfully modulated into a kind of woe that is as effective as anger and still expresses his disapproval of the modern world.

Does it attempt to rewrite modern history by blaming American statesmen for wars, Communism, depression, and other troubles of the world??

Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.

most modern adapters totally accept the world of a book, squeeze it dry of life, and add only one contribution of their own: stage technique.

These groups have varied widely from mere families, primitive, totemic groups, and small modern cults and sects, to the memberships of great denominations, and great, widely dispersed world religions.

But it is our health -- more precious than all the money in the world -- that these modern witch doctors with their fake therapeutic gadgets are gambling away.

It was still a very big world, despite all the modern cant to the contrary.

For in the modern world neither `` spirit '' nor `` matter '' refer to any generally agreed-upon elements of experience.

Time and again in counseling and teaching, one encounters members of this group whose attempts to bring into some kind of unity the insubstantial mythologies of their `` fundamentalist '' heritage and the stubborn reality of the modern world are only too painfully obvious.

What makes this long and diverse tradition essentially one is that those who have belonged to it have been profoundly in earnest about being modern men in a distinctively modern world.

The modern world has been marked by progressive disaffection with claims to divine sanction for the state, whatever its political form.

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His system included modifying the way we consider the world, e. g., with an attitude of " I don't know ; let's see ," to better discover or reflect its realities as revealed by modern science.

Schweitzer writes that modern Christians of many kinds deliberately ignore the urgent message ( so powerfully proclaimed by Jesus during the 1st century ) of an imminent end of the world.

In modern usage, the term is sometimes used improperly as a catch-all classification of " other world religions " alongside major organized religions.

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.

From a modern perspective these figures may seem small, but in the world of Greek city-states Athens was huge: most of the thousand or so Greek cities could only muster 1000 – 1500 adult male citizens and Corinth, a major power, had at most 15, 000 but in some very seldom cases more.

A distinctive West Arabic variant of the symbols begins to emerge around the 10th century in the Maghreb and Al-Andalus, called ghubar (" sand-table " or " dust-table ") numerals, which are the direct ancestor of the modern Western Arabic numerals used throughout the world.

His discovery of penicillin had changed the world of modern medicine by introducing the age of useful antibiotics ; penicillin has saved, and is still saving, millions of people around the world.

Discovery of techniques for killing bacteria using heat, and other microbiological studies by scientists such as Louis Pasteur, contributed to the modern sanitation standards that are ubiquitous in developed nations today.

In 288 BC, the Mamertines — a group of Italian ( Campanian ) mercenaries originally hired by Agathocles of Syracuse — occupied the city of Messana ( modern Messina ) in the northeastern tip of Sicily, killing all the men and taking the women as their wives.

The two most violent volcanic eruptions in modern times occurred in Indonesia ; in 1815 Mount Tambora in Sumbawa erupted killing 92, 000 and in 1883, Krakatau, erupted killing 36, 000.

* 2011 – An EF5 Tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri killing 161 people, the single deadliest tornado in the United States since modern record keeping began in 1950.

While Japan may have the longest recorded history of tsunamis, the sheer destruction caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami event mark it as the most devastating of its kind in modern times, killing around 230, 000 people.

As with modern criminal gangs, each member of the group had his own function: the equivalent of the ' hit-man ,' ' the lookout ,' and the ' getaway driver ' would be those Thugs tasked with luring travelers with charming words or acting as guardian to prevent escape of victims while the killing took place.

In modern fantasy ( literary or governmental ), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.

He seemed to be unaware or unconcerned about the mass killing effect of modern military weapons technology possessed by the Spanish.

Seton was an early pioneer of the modern school of animal fiction writing, his most popular work being Wild Animals I Have Known ( 1898 ), which contains the story of his killing of the wolf Lobo.

The instances closest to " ritual killing " in the criminal history of modern society would be pathological serial killers such as the Zodiac Killer, and mass suicides with doomsday cult background, such as the Peoples Temple, Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, Order of the Solar Temple or Heaven's Gate incidents.

The pandemic caused by the 1918 influenza outbreak was by far the most devastating single disease outbreak in modern history, killing 50 to 100 million people during an 18-month period.

The Muslim troops were armed with modern repeater rifles and artillery, and reportedly enthusiastic about going on the offensive and killing foreigners.

A hard, nondeforming bullet is often chosen, though many modern rifle calibers are quite capable of killing 1, 000 lb ( 450 kg ) elk and similar-sized animals with a deforming bullet ; even the venerable. 30-06 is up to the task, with a powerful enough load.

Sebitwane gathered the Kololo tribe somewhere near modern Lesotho and wandered north across what is now Botswana, plundering and killing many of the Tswana people in the way.

For example, in most modern horror films, such as Friday the 13th, most of the killing is quickly clichéd, and is always overkill.

Armed with modern artillery against ill-equipped villagers, Soviet Soldiers developed a sense of guilt for the widespread killing of innocent civilians and their unfair artillery advantage.

Although the Reign of Terror was imposed by the French government, in modern times " terrorism " usually refers to the killing of people by non-government political activists for political reasons, often as a public statement.

* 2011-A tornado devastates Joplin, Missouri, killing 154 and injuring 1, 000, making it the deadliest single U. S. tornado since the advent of modern weather forecasting

Sima Zhao advanced quickly on Zhuge Dan's stronghold of Shouchun ( 壽春, in modern Lu ' an, Anhui ) and surrounded it, eventually capturing the city in 258 after cutting off any hope of an Eastern Wu rescue, killing Zhuge Dan and his family.

The most famous modern incident along the river occurred on June 5, 1976 when the earthen Teton Dam in Teton Canyon collapsed, killing 11 people in the valley below.

The Biscari massacre includes two World War II incidents in which U. S. soldiers were involved in killing 73 unarmed Italian and German prisoners of war ( POWs ) at Biscari ( modern Acate, southern Sicily, Italy ) on 14 July 1943.

The waste of life in the death of the Cachalot and the waste of courage and sanctity in the killing of the Jesuit missionaries are tragedies of a unique kind in modern poetry: like the tragedy of Job, they seem to move upward to a vision of a monstrous Leviathan, a power of chaotic nihilism which is " king over all the children of pride.

The movie " Life & Debt " describes a modern instance of the company, or it's sub-managers, killing strikers.