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.

Modern handloading equipment enables a firearm owner to tailor fresh ammunition to a specific firearm, and to precisely measured tolerances far exceeding the comparatively wide tolerances within which commercial ammunition manufacturers must operate.

Modern flight management systems have evolved sufficiently to allow a crew to plan a flight not only as to route and altitude, but to specific time of arrival at specific locations.

Modern projects usually entail the knitting of hats or helmet liners ; the liners provided for soldiers must be of 100 % worsted weight wool and be crafted using specific colors.

Modern research still uses the Brodmann cerebral cytoarchitectonic map ( referring to study of cell structure ) anatomical definitions from this era in continuing to show that distinct areas of the cortex are activated in the execution of specific tasks.

Modern Orthodox Judaism, particularly in its more liberal variants, has tended to look at proposed changes in the role of women on a specific, case-by-case basis, focusing on arguments regarding the religious and legal role of specific prayers, rituals and activities individually.

Modern restaurants are dedicated to the serving of food, where specific dishes are ordered by guests and are prepared to their request.

While an urban legend, a 1999 television documentary, part of the Modern Marvels ' Engineering Disasters sub-series, argued that — even if there was no specific plan to make alcohol to beat Prohibition — there may have been some general idea of increasing the volume at the last minute so as to prepare in case total alcohol prohibition might occur.

Nouns do not have gender in Modern English, although many of them denote people or animals of a specific sex.

Modern botanical Latin sometimes uses the specific epithet aegea to mean " of the Aegean ".

Modern high-performance sport cars, such as those built by Porsche, use rotors made of carbon fiber within a silicon carbide matrix because of its high specific heat and thermal conductivity.

Modern biological microscopy depends heavily on the development of fluorescent probes for specific structures within a cell.

Modern usage is more specific, referring almost exclusively to the hand-tool pressure flaking process pictured to the right.

Modern Christian views vary as to whether witchcraft is a generalterm for communion with evil, or a specific form of religious system and practice.

The specific expression of Modern Orthodoxy, however, takes many forms, and in fact, particularly over the past 30 – 40 years, describes a political spectrum.

Modern scholars are less specific: dates for the Second Messenian War and hence for Tyrtaeus are given as broad approximations, such as " the latter part of the 7th century " and " any time between the sixties and the thirties " of the seventh century.

Modern hydrometers usually measure specific gravity but different scales were ( and sometimes still are ) used in certain industries.

Modern TEMs are often equipped with specimen holders that allow the user to tilt the specimen to a range of angles in order to obtain specific diffraction conditions, and apertures placed above the specimen allow the user to select electrons that would otherwise be diffracted in a particular direction from entering the specimen.

Modern day FDRs receive inputs via specific data frames from the Flight Data Acquisition Units ( FDAU ).

Modern works are less inclined to generalize ; rather than refer to " essential oils " as a class at all, they prefer to discuss specific compounds, such as methyl salicylate, rather than " oil of wintergreen ".

The technology tree is divided into four ages ( Ancient Age, Middle Ages, Industrial Age, and Modern Age ); each age requires the research of specific technologies to advance to that age.

Many other authors have identified specific problems in financial engineering that caused catastrophes: Aaron Brown named confusion between quants and regulators over the meaning of “ capital ”, Felix Salmon fingered the Gaussian copula, Ian Stewart criticized the Black-Scholes formula, Pablo Triana < ref name = Triana >< Pablo Triana, The Number That Killed Us: A Story of Modern Banking, Flawed Mathematics, and a Big Financial Crisis, Wiley ( December 6, 2011 ) 978-0470529737 </ ref > dislikes Value-at-Risk and Scott Patterson

Modern consumer behaviour research methods often deal in aggregates that average out income levels and are too blunt an instrument to capture these specific situations.

Societies can be very general in nature, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, specific to a given discipline, such as the Modern Language Association, or specific to a given area of study, such as the Royal Entomological Society.