Of course, the list also excludes all writers who are fairly `` optimistic '' about the modern situation ; ;

Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

A similar situation is observed in modern Komodo dragons, with hatchlings beginning life as small insectivores before growing to become the dominant predators on their islands.

Pomponius Mela mentions it among the small towns of the district, probably as it was eclipsed by its neighbour Tarraco ( modern Tarragona ), but it may be gathered from later writers that it gradually grew in wealth and consequence, favoured as it was with a beautiful situation and an excellent harbour.

The situation remains similar in modern Faroese and Icelandic, but in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, the enclitics have become endings.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

) The game is in some ways modeled on modern government systems, and demonstrates that in any such system where rule-changes are possible, a situation may arise in which the resulting laws are contradictory or insufficient to determine what is in fact legal.

Historically, the Christian church and lay-people have believed that more women than men are involved in paganism and witchcraft, which can be seen as far back as 1487 with the printing of the Malleus Maleficarum Several modern authors of Wiccan books state that, in current Wicca, the situation is the same.

After the fall of communism and after joining the European Union, this situation is rapidly changing for the better and in the next decade Poland plans to have a very modern network of highways.

The situation can be considered this way: it is the same as the rule by which in modern music a quarter-note may equal either two eighth-notes or three, which would be written as a " triplet.

The modern short story form emerged from oral story-telling traditions, the brief moralistic narratives of parables and fables, and the prose anecdote, all of these being forms of a swiftly-sketched situation that quickly comes to its point.

Historian Graham White describes the treaty of Winchester as a " precarious peace ", capturing the judgement of most modern historians that the situation in late 1153 was still uncertain and unpredictable.

In this situation, the modern fast-running tape drive is unable to stop the tape instantly.

But Gibbon believes, as do most pre-modern and modern historians, that Charles had made the best of a bad situation.

A modern audience may find the cruel actions of the main characters comical, but should they consider the situation in reality, they would very likely be appalled.

Also, most modern military units can, if the situation requires it, call on yet more branches of the military, such as fighter or bomber aircraft or naval forces, to support their operations.

Some modern historians such as Pamela E. Ritchie believe that the change to Guise's policy was not dramatic, but both Catholic and Protestant would perceive and react to the tense political situation.

In 1566, unlike the situation after the Eighty Years War and today, Protestantism in the Low Countries was mainly concentrated in the south ( roughly modern Belgium ), and much weaker in the north ( roughly now the Netherlands ), and iconoclasm in the north began later, after news of the events in Antwerp was received, and was more successfully resisted by local authorities in some towns, although still succeeding in most.

Historian Graham White describes the treaty of Winchester as a " precarious peace ", capturing the judgement of most modern historians that the situation in late 1153 was still uncertain and unpredictable.

Recognizing this situation, Greece grants citizenship to broad categories of people of ethnic Greek ancestry who are members of the Greek diaspora, including individuals and families whose ancestors have been resident in diaspora communities outside the modern state of Greece for centuries or millennia

The surrounding powers considered the Commonwealth's internal situation and the reforms initiated by the Constitution of May 3, 1791, the first constitution written in the modern era in Europe and second in the world after that of the United States, as a threat to their influence over Polish politics.

Traditionally the English people were thought to have been divided into seven kingdoms, but modern historiography has shown that this is a simplification of a much more confused situation.

Hence, in modern practice, the Royal Assent is always granted ; a refusal to do so would only be appropriate in an emergency situation requiring the use of the monarch's reserve powers.

According to Eliade, " modern nonreligious man assumes a new existential situation ".

Max Weber considered production during ancient times as always strictly not warranting classification as factories, with methods of production and the contemporary economic situation incomparable to modern or even pre-modern developments of industry.

Ancient Anatolia is subdivided by modern scholars into various regions named after the various Indo-European ( and largely Hittite, Luwian or Greek speaking ) peoples that occupied them, such as Lydia, Lycia, Caria, Mysia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lycaonia, Pisidia, Paphlagonia, Cilicia, and Cappadocia.

The modern form of AAS was largely developed during the 1950s by a team of Australian chemists.

The five-kingdom system has largely been superseded by modern alternative classification systems.

Boxing evolved from 16th and 18th century prizefights ( detailed further down the page ), largely in Great Britain, to the forerunner of modern boxing in the mid 19th century, again initially in Great Britain and later in the United States.

The field of modern biotechnology is thought to have largely begun on June 16, 1980, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that a genetically modified microorganism could be patented in the case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty.

This issue is largely addressed in modern processors by caches and pipeline architectures ( see below ).

A modern building: Boston City Hall ( completed 1968 ) is constructed largely of concrete, both precast and poured in place.

In other cases, little-known or forgotten films from the past are revived as cult films, largely because they may be considered goofy and senseless by modern standards, with laughable special effects and corny plotlines.

His forecast of the form of government suitable to the modern world may be seen as prophetic: the largely ceremonial offices of president in some modern parliamentary democracies in Europe and e. g. Israel can be perceived as elected or appointed versions of Hegel's constitutional monarch ; the Russian and French presidents, with their stronger powers, may also be regarded in Hegelian terms as wielding powers suitable to the embodiment of the national will.

CRTs have largely been superseded by more modern display technologies such as LCD, plasma display, and OLED, which as of 2012 offer lower manufacturing and distribution costs.

In modern times, couscous production is largely mechanized, and the product is sold in markets around the world.

A different dimension on which dictionaries ( usually just general-purpose ones ) are sometimes distinguished is whether they are prescriptive or descriptive, the latter being in theory largely based on linguistic corpus studies — this is the case of most modern dictionaries.

Unlike the Progressive Era's conservation movement ( 1890s-1920s ), which was largely elitist consisting of largely of wealthy, political powerful men the modern environmental movement was a social movement with more popular support.

In turn, these have largely been replaced by modern explosives such as trinitrotoluene and C-4.

Adrienne Mayor, in introducing a bibliography on the topic, noted that most modern folklorists are largely unaware of classical parallels and precedents, in materials that are only partly represented by the familiar designation Aesopica: " Ancient Greek and Roman literature contains rich troves of folklore and popular beliefs, many of which have counterparts in modern contemporary legends " ( Such as Mayor, 2000 ).

The pre-eminence of Parisian French has reigned largely unchallenged throughout the history of modern French literature.

A few modern scholars have argued that Herodotus exaggerated the extent of his travels and invented his sources yet his reputation continues largely intact: " The Father of History is also the father of comparative anthropology ", " the father of ethnography ", and he is " more modern than any other ancient historian in his approach to the ideal of total history ".

In 1970 75 percent of Malaysians living below the poverty line were Malays, the majority of Malays were still rural workers, and Malays were still largely excluded from the modern economy.

The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including en-suite bathrooms and air conditioning or climate control.

By the 1920s, the diatonic harmonica had largely reached its modern form.

In modern times, in the United States, the Irish are largely perceived as hard workers.