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How to use the word Modern in a Sentence?

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Ancient man believed there were four states of matter: Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire. Today, modern science has proven there are actually four states of matter: Solid, Gas, Liquid, and Plasma. Thank God for progress.” -Kelvin R. Throop III

Kelvin Throop

added by kidcash912
3 months ago

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

added by Normando
5 months ago

‘ First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby carriage ’ is an outdated narrative for millions of people, modern family building and infertility impact every relationship we have. With our partners, friends, family, workplace and most importantly, the relationship we have with our bodies and ourselves.

Chloe Melas/CNN

Found on CNN
1 year ago

First they came for your energy. Then they came for your gas powered cars, your freedom of movement, your cheap flights. And now they’re coming for your food, they’re going after our modern diet.

Marc Morano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They’re going after our modern diet.

Marc Morano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The sermon has become the climactic element in a lot of denominations ’ services. A sermon is not simply teaching. It sets a precedent for understanding scripture correctly. And there’s also this moment of exhortation, of asking what it says about our own lives, there’s also more value added to a sermon as culture becomes more secular. If churches want to grow, they have to connect their teachings to modern life and modern problems.

Stu Strachan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All the areas need to be improved, each war reveals some drawbacks, shortcomings, or false experiences, experiences that need to be adjusted to the modern realities. So absolutely all spheres need reform.

Vladlen Tatarsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Each war reveals some drawbacks, shortcomings, or false experiences, experiences that need to be adjusted to the modern realities. So absolutely all spheres need reform.

Vladlen Tatarsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We wanted to illustrate how these programs are being used by ordinary Americans in the United States, all of these programs, I think, are pretty unique in modern day immigration policy in that they allow the American public to interact with the immigration system in a way that people otherwise would n’t. I think our intervenors demonstrate the breadth and range of types of people who can and want to engage with the immigration system.

Esther Sung

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know from experience in the United States that once you demonize Chinese people, all Asian people living in this country face the brunt of that rhetoric, and you see it not just in spy balloons and the reactions surrounding it and TikTok and Huawei, but also in modern-day racist alien land laws.

Charles Jung

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Only a couple of the simulations matched the imagery, and the most likely scenario is that volcanic activity occurred on Venus’ surface during Magellan’s mission, while this is just one data point for an entire planet, it confirms there is modern geological activity.

Scott Hensley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The bill would prevent a large group of extremely vulnerable refugees from relying on human rights protections, by leaving it up to the Home Secretary to decide who should be protected and who should be deported – and excluding the courts almost entirely, for example, victims of modern slavery will not be able to use laws designed to protect them. This attacks the core idea of human rights that everyone is protected, and that states must, under the ECHR, give people access to an effective remedy.

Adam Wagner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every president really in the modern era, especially in the last three or four decades, has stretched the use of unilateral action.

Steven Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The brain is still unmatched by modern computers, brains also have an amazing capacity to store information, estimated at 2,500 (terabytes).

Thomas Hartung

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They could very easily have inaccurate information and alongside accurate information, we have no more ability to discriminate between those than they did at the time, except that we now know from modern science what species actually (exist) and what’s credible or not credible.

John McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They got a larger fleet now so they’re deploying that fleet globally, we do need a larger Navy, we do need more ships in the future, more modern ships in the future, in particular that can meet that threat.

Del Toro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We do need a larger Navy, we do need more ships in the future, more modern ships in the future, in particular that can meet that threat.

Del Toro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s certainly ramped up over the last year. As we bring in more modern equipment, it’ll be able to ramp up even further, intensity has gone up.

Todd Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They attacked him over age before he beat them in 2020. They attacked him over age as he built the best legislative record in modern history, they did the same before he beat them 2022. I’m not sure what they think they’re accomplishing. The trend is not good for them. Maybe they forgot?

White House

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In creating the new series, it was important to us that we properly reflect the world that kids today live in so that the series can deliver meaningful lessons about navigating it, with our modern take on New York CNN Barney, we hope to inspire the next generation to listen, care, and dream big.

Fred Soulie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need artillery guns, ammunitions, modern tanks, the long-range missiles and modern fighter jets, we have to enhance the dynamic of our cooperation.

Olivier Matthys/AP Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need modern ports so we can move more goods made in America out to the rest of the world.

President Obama

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think it’s important to keep old London and some of the history alive, because if everything’s new and modern, it all starts to look the same. we send coffee all over the world.

Marisa Crocetta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As far as 12 of one model, 30 of another and 100 of a third … that’s another Wednesday morning in the British Army, ukraine is throwing smart people at their maintenance issues along with both true mechanized logistics and modern warehousing information technology to help keep track of parts with modern 2D and 3D bar coding on their spares packaging.

Trent Telenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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