Modern dishwashers are quieter than older models.

Modern writers, who are supposed to keep their fingers firmly upon the pulse of their subjects, insist upon drawing out this legend, prolonging its burial, when it well deserves a rest after the overexploitation of the past century.

Modern embroidered panels, framed and meant to be hung on the wall, are another aspect of this trend.

Modern Zen presentation to the West insists on the anti-authoritarian, highly pragmatic nature of the Zen belief -- scriptures are burned to make fire, action is based on direct self-confidence, and so on.

Modern music is available in several facets: raï music is a style typical of Western Algeria with his two fiefs are Oran and Sidi Bel Abbès.

Modern discussions of alchemy are generally split into an examination of its exoteric practical applications, and its esoteric aspects.

Modern definitions are concerned with the fundamental chemical reactions common to all acids.

Modern critics are more likely to find fault with the narrow definition of the citizen body, but in the ancient world the complaint if anything went in the opposite direction.

Modern antibiotics are tested using a method similar to Fleming's discovery

Modern arrows are made to a specified ' spine ', or stiffness rating, to maintain matched flexing and hence accuracy of aim.

Modern blóts are celebrated several times during the year.

Modern IFVs are well-armed infantry carriers, differencing from earlier APCs by their heavier armament allowing them to give direct-fire support during an assault.

Modern self-propelled artillery vehicles may superficially resemble tanks, but they are generally lightly armoured, too lightly to survive in direct-fire combat.

* Modern Christians typically believe it is acceptable to play instruments or to attend weddings, funerals, banquets, etc., where instruments are heard.

Modern cisterns are usually large plastic tanks.

Modern CPUs are typically 2-operand or 3-operand machines — the additional operands specify which one of many general purpose registers ( also called " general purpose accumulators ") are used as the source and destination for calculations.

Modern bridge are currently built in concrete, steel, fiber reinforced polymers ( FRP ), stainless steel or combinations of those materials.

Modern birds are characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton.

Modern steal rules were fully implemented in 1898, and steals are now only credited when a runner successfully takes an extra base while the ball is being pitched, but not already hit.

Modern bicycle brakes may be: rim brakes, in which friction pads are compressed against the wheel rims ; internal hub brakes, in which the friction pads are contained within the wheel hubs ; or disc brakes, with a separate rotor for braking.

Modern variants of the Batavian founding myth are made more credible by pointing out that the Batavians were only part of the ancestry of the Dutch people, together with the Frisians, Franks and Saxons, and by tracing patterns of DNA.

Modern scholars have instead proposed that, with the eponymous Benjamin being just a metaphor, son of the south / son of the right are references to the tribe's being subordinate to the more dominant tribe of Ephraim.

Modern boomerangs used for sport are often made from carbon fibre-reinforced plastics, thin aircraft plywood, or other high-tech materials.

Modern clay bricks are formed in one of three processes-soft mud, dry press, or extruded.

Modern domesticated cattle fall into the groups Bos taurus ( European cattle ) and Bos indicus ( zebu ), both descended from the now-extinct aurochs.

Modern Ramallah was founded in the mid-16th century by the Haddadins, a Jordanian tribe of brothers descended from Ghassanid Christian Arabs.

Modern physical analysis methods include scanning-tunneling microscopy ( STM ) and a family of methods descended from it.

Modern use of the term applies mostly to African-Americans and West Indians who are descended from slaves, and are thereby capable of having a " slave name ".

The d in Modern English thunder ( from earlier Old English þunor ) is epenthetic, and is now found as well in Modern Dutch donder ( cp Middle Dutch donre, and Old Norse þorr, Old Frisian þuner, Old High German donar descended from Proto-Germanic * þunraz ).

Modern Franco-Ontarians are instead descended primarily from people who moved to Ontario from Quebec or New Brunswick in the 19th and 20th centuries.

" Modern versions of the Apostles ' Creed often translate this more literally as " he descended to the dead ".

Modern scripts in the Philippines, descended from Baybayin, are Hanunó ' o, Buhid, Tagbanwa and Kapampangan script.

Modern scholars debate its exact history, but it is generally accepted that it is descended from the Medieval citole, or cytole.

Old Japanese lacked a velar fricatives ; Modern Japanese is derived from Old Japanese, which descended in most cases from a Proto-Japonic */ p /.

Although most linguists acknowledge that Modern Standard Hindi-Urdu descended from Khariboli, the precise mechanism of dialectical changes from Khari to the prestige dialect ( such as the loss of gemination which is so prevalent in Khari ) lacks consensus.

Modern Aiel are descended from the Da ' shain Aiel, servants of the Aes Sedai during the Age of Legends, and sworn never to do harm in their passing, known as the Way of the Leaf.

The independent languages of Mahri ( Mehri ) and Suqutri ( Socotri, Soqotri ), as well as a couple of smaller languages, are not Arabic dialects at all, but form a group of its own, confusingly called Modern South Arabian languages, although they are not descended from Old South Arabian ( also called Sayhadic ).

* Modern Lebanese people descended from the Phoenicians.

Modern researchers believe these Jews were descended from Persian merchants who settled in China during the early Song Dynasty.

According to Alice Faber ( based on Hetzron's work ), together with Ethiopian Semitic languages ( such as the contemporary Ge ' ez language ) and the Modern South Arabian languages ( not descended from Old South Arabian but from a sister language ), they formed the western branch of the South Semitic languages.

Modern traditionalists, however, maintain the term to be synonymous with a dark-haired phenotype exhibited by certain individuals originally descended from Ireland.