Modern kimonos are also widely available in less-expensive easy-care fabrics such as rayon, cotton sateen, cotton, polyester and other synthetic fibers.

Modern fibers that are made from older artificial materials include:

Modern shoelaces often incorporate various synthetic fibers, which are generally more slippery and thus more prone to coming undone than those made from traditional fibers.

Modern chaff is usually aluminum coated glass fibers of various lengths.

Modern dialysers typically consist of a cylindrical rigid casing enclosing hollow fibers cast or extruded from a polymer or copolymer, which is usually a proprietary formulation.

Modern roosters have lost the art of crowing restless spirits back to Purgatory.

Modern times have changed the world beyond recognition.

He was able to smell a bargain -- and a masterpiece -- a continent away, and the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr said of him: `` I have never mentioned a new artist that Thompson didn't know about ''.

Modern Westerners have difficulty comprehending this fusion of moral and material, largely because in the West the historical trend has been to deny the connection.

Modern amphibians have fully ossified vertebrae with articular processes.

Modern anchors for smaller vessels have metal flukes which hook on to rocks on the bottom or bury themselves in soft bottoms.

Modern experiments have tested claims that Archimedes designed machines capable of lifting attacking ships out of the water and setting ships on fire using an array of mirrors.

Modern aestheticians have asserted that will and desire were almost dormant in aesthetic experience, yet preference and choice have seemed important aesthetics to some 20th-century thinkers.

Modern English, which almost entirely lacks declension in its nouns, does not have an explicitly marked accusative case even in the pronouns.

Modern glues have improved flexibility, toughness, curing rate, and chemical resistance.

Modern 155 mm guns have a primer magazine fitted to their breech.

Modern Class AB amplifiers commonly have peak efficiencies between 30 – 55 % in audio systems and 50-70 % in radio frequency systems with a theoretical maximum of 78. 5 %.

Modern studies have shown the important role such concepts played in the world-view of Early Medieval scholars.

Modern historians have completed many studies of Bede's works.

Modern historians have studied the Historia extensively, and a number of editions have been produced.

Modern historians and editors of Bede have been lavish in their praise of his achievement in the Historia Ecclesiastica.

Modern battles now continue to resemble that of World War II, though prominent innovations have been added.

Recently, the team at the Institute of Modern Physics ( IMP ), Lanzhou, have studied the nuclear reaction between americium-243 and magnesium-26 ions in order to synthesise the new isotope < sup > 265 </ sup > Bh

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.

In some published editions of the Bible, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah have been presented together as a single book, for example, in The Modern Reader's Bible ( 1907 ) and The Books of the Bible ( 2007 ).

Modern Christian hymns have been inspired by the words of the prophet Habakkuk.

Modern historians have proposed wide ranging numbers for the infantry, from 20, 000 – 100, 000 with a consensus of perhaps 25, 000 ; estimates for the cavalry are in the range of 1, 000.

Modern hospitals now have available spare parts to replace a part of the body that is badly damaged by injury or disease.

Carol Clover, in her popular and influential book " Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film " ( Princeton University Press, 1992 ) argues that young male viewers of the Horror Genre ( young males being the primary demographic ) are quite prepared to identify with the female-in-jeopardy, a key component of Horror narrative, and to identify on an unexpectedly profound level.

Modern smog, as found for example in Los Angeles, is a type of air pollution derived from vehicular emission from internal combustion engines and industrial fumes that react in the atmosphere with sunlight to form secondary pollutants that also combine with the primary emissions to form photochemical smog.

Modern recreational rigs most often have two regulators connected to a single cylinder, in case the primary regulator fails or another diver runs out of air.

* The primary source of material on Herberstein is Marshall Poe's publications, particularly A People Born To Slavery ': Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography ( Cornell UP ).

Modern aircraft use a " sensitive altimeter ," which has a primary needle and one or more secondary needles that show the number of revolutions, similar to a clock face.

Modern Western magicians generally state magic's primary purpose to be personal spiritual growth.

Modern psychologists view anger as a primary, natural, and mature emotion experienced by virtually all humans at times, and as something that has functional value for survival.

Modern geographers are the primary practitioners of the GIS ( geographic information system ), who are often employed by local, state, and federal government agencies as well as in the private sector by environmental and engineering firms.

Counter-Strike's system of allowing a primary weapon ( assault rifle, submachine gun, sniper rifle, or shotgun ) and a secondary weapon ( pistol ) has been followed by other shooters like Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

It has also been suggested by Jeffrey Meyer in " Orwell's Apocalypse: Coming Up For Air, Modern Fiction Studies " that George Orwell's primary character George Bowling in " Coming Up For Air " was modelled on Leopold Bloom.

In chapter 4 (" The Terror of History ") of The Myth of the Eternal Return and chapter 9 (" Religious Symbolism and the Modern Man's Anxiety ") of Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries, Eliade argues at length that the rejection of religious thought is a primary cause of modern man's anxieties.

Modern historians view her book as an important primary source, but one that is deliberately misleading in many instances.

In contrast, some Modern Orthodox rabbis such as Eugene Korn and David Hartman hold that in some cases, the primary issue in Confrontation is no longer valid ; some Christian groups no longer attempt to use interfaith dialogue to convert Jews to Christianity.

Modern steelmaking processes are broken into two categories: primary and secondary steelmaking.

The various versions of this type of poetry, as known historically and to the general knowledge of the modern world, include two primary types, Classical Chinese poetry and Modern Chinese poetry.

Modern aircraft employing glass cockpit instrument systems employ two airspeed indicators: an electronic indicator on the primary flight data panel and a traditional mechanical instrument for use if the electronic panels fail.

Modern versions of the Agnihotra are promoted by various individuals and groups as a non-sectarian ritual for the healing and purification of the atmosphere and as a primary source of vibhuti or sacred ash.

Modern engine designs have abandoned the high-voltage distributor and coil, instead performing the distribution function in the primary circuit electronically and applying the primary ( low-voltage ) pulse to individual coils for each spark plug, or one coil for each pair of companion cylinders in an engine ( two coils for a four-cylinder, three coils for a six-cylinder, four coils for an eight-cylinder, and so on ).

* Echoes of Botticelli in Early Modern Sources Explores primary sources related to Botticelli and Savonarola

The Modern Defense is closely related to the Pirc Defence, the primary difference being that in the Modern, Black delays developing his knight to f6.

The government later joined the christian missionaries in establishing many primary schools, a Modern School, Local authority Modern School, now Local Authority Commercial Grammar School, a Teacher Training College, LATCO, later changed in 1964 to Iwo Grammar School.