Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.

Today our surging strength is apparent to everyone.

Today the recreational boating scene is awash with heartening statistics which prove the enormous growth of that sport.

Today, the boat, on its trailer, is brought to the gear and loaded at the door.

Today, according to land economist Homer Hoyt, shopping centers and their associated parking lots cover some 46,000 acres of land, which is almost exactly the total land area in all the nation's Central Business Districts put together.

Today he is a major -- in the Regular Army.

Today Northern Vietnam is overtly Communist ; ;

Today Sukarno's government is heavily besieged by avowed Communists, and for all of its `` neutralist '' pretensions, it is a firm ally of Soviet policy.

Today, Africa is swerving violently away from the West and plunging, it would seem, into the Soviet orbit.

Today it is up for grabs.

Today many college bound students try to take a course in personal typing, as they feel a certain degree of mastery of this skill is almost essential for one who proposes to do academic work in college and a professional school.

Today the yearly import into the United States of locust bean gum is more than 15 million pounds ; ;

Today it is occupied by the French Embassy.

Today, by contrast it is a lively and colorful fruit, vegetable, and flower market.

Today Dogtown is the only deserted village in all New England that I know of.

Today however, the `` outsider '' is likely to have professional qualifications of the highest order ( otherwise the college would not be interested in hiring him ) and to be acclimatized to the democratic processes of the secular or state university.

Today, more than ever before, the survival of our free society depends upon the citizen who is both informed and concerned.

Today the cancer is gone.

Today, in the era of the integrated musical when an individual song must contribute to the over-all development of the show, it is understandable that a song, no matter how excellent it may be on its own terms, is cut out because it does not perform the function required of it.

Today, as Harrison's Principles Of Internal Medicine, a standard internist's text, puts it, `` The most common form of malnutrition is caloric excess or obesity ''.

Today anthropology is a global discipline, and anthropologists study all types of societies.

Today it is regarded as an archaism and replaced by the handheld calculator.

Today, Israel is a major arms supplier to the country.

Today the accepted figure is 1. 3 million, around 90 percent of them Jewish.

Today, due to the political centralization of France and the important influence of the media, only about 200, 000 people are able to speak Breton, a figure down from more than a million in 1950, of which the majority is more than 60 years old.

Today the most renowned figure of late 18th century opera is Mozart, who began with opera seria but is most famous for his Italian comic operas, especially The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte, as well as The Magic Flute, a landmark in the German tradition.

Today, as in his own time ( though for different reasons ), Paley is a controversial figure, a lightning rod for both sides in the contemporary " war between science and religion ".

Today Mazara is widely considered to be one of the most important fishing centres of Italy ; tussles about fishing rights, especially with the North-African countries, figure large in the town's recent history, boat sequestrations being a common event.

Today, the courthouse remains an important figure in Centreville, Queen Anne ’ s County, and the state of Maryland.

Today, the best-known painters of the Dutch Golden Age are the period's most dominant figure Rembrandt, the Delft master of genre Johannes Vermeer, the innovative landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael, and Frans Hals, who infused new life into portraiture.

Today that figure is about 2, 000.

Today the term " Marbellan urbanism " is synonymous with corruption in government and its legacy of environmental destruction and overcrowding, as shown by the figure of 30, 000 illegal homes built in the town, and the lack of significant educational and health infrastructure.

Today there is no figure upon this pedestal.

Today, the appearance of yūrei is somewhat uniform, instantly signalling the ghostly nature of the figure, and assuring that it is culturally authentic.

An important figure in the early days of Youth of Today was Kevin Seconds, singer of the Reno, NV band 7 Seconds.

Today, his direct political influence is less evident, outside radical leftist circles, but he remains a notable figure in political and cultural debate and a popular author ; his visibility is enhanced by the aggressively contrarian positions he take to much conventional political wisdom.

Today, the image has its own chapel in the far southwest of the community, but the figure itself remains in the chapel of San Martin.

Today the university has an enrollment of around 5, 700 students, down from the 2009 figure of 6, 162.

The figure at the forefront of Wicca's early development was the English occultist Gerald Gardner ( 1884-1964 ), the author of Witchcraft Today ( 1954 ) and The Meaning of Witchcraft ( 1959 ) and the founder of a tradition known as Gardnerian Wicca.

Today Schandorph is little read and not regarded a very outstanding man of the ” break-through ” but he is however an important key figure as an inspiration of Henrik Pontoppidan and later regionalist and social writers.

Today, most of the 300-odd Chinese temples in Singapore, a figure derived from the 2000 census, enshrined and worshipped Taoist Gods alongside with the Buddha.

Today, the Seto people ( an ethnic group of Estonians in the south-east of the country ) also revere Peko as their national hero and king, the name and figure are widely used as a national symbol.

Today, the Chinese government acknowledges 14 million Christians in China, but it is believed that there are an additional 70 million not included in that figure.

Today, Vet Stewart is the lead figure in a band called Family Stone ( formerly called Phunk Phamily Affair ), which serves to carry on the legacy of Sly & the Family Stone.

Today there are only ruins of the baths ( figure 13 ) but a European union project has been initiated to restore them.

Historically, the process was patented in the ' 50s, but it was industrially spread in the ' 70s for the production of large T-shaped joints for the oil & gas industry ( see figure ). Today it is moslty used in the automotive sector, where many industrial applications can be found, especially in the automotive sector.

Today, many art and design schools still train their students to sketch the dressed figure, and often pay more for costume models, who maintain their own wardrobes, than for nude models.