Modern in sentence

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I can't believe they did all those things and didn't also have a modern language.

That's what I learned from studying religious tolerance in early modern England and America.

In my book, though, I argue that the first modern crisis of civility actually began about 500 years ago, when a certain professor of theology named Martin Luther took advantage of a recent advancement in communications technology, the printing press, to call the Pope the Antichrist, and thus inadvertently launch the Protestant Reformation.

And I think it explains why partisans on both sides of the aisle keep reaching for this, frankly, antiquated, early modern language of civility precisely when they want to communicate that certain people and certain views are beyond the pale, but they want to save themselves the trouble of actually making an argument.

Because remember, the same early modern crisis of civility that launched the Reformation also gave birth to tolerant societies, places like Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and indeed, eventually the United States, places that at least aspired to protect disagreement as well as diversity, and what made that possible was the virtue of civility.

This is Henry VIII, the acclaimed king who reformed England's religion and government and set it on course to becoming a modern nation.

A king who brought stability to the throne, but used it to promote his own glory, Henry VIII embodied all the contradictions of monarchy on the verge of the modern era.

But modern psychiatry is actively trying to avoid that.

But the better answer, I think, is that the US and the West were utterly unequipped to recognize and respond to a modern information operation, despite the fact that the US had wielded information with devastating success in an era not so long ago.

But they are increasingly displaced by modern agriculture, which promotes tillage, monocropping and the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides which degrade the land and turn it into a net emitter of greenhouse gases.

And you put lots of those together, you get the essentials of the modern computer: the arithmetic unit, the central control, the memory, the recording medium, the input and the output.

I'm an actor, like I told you, a modern expression of human creativity.

In modern terms, we call this "the value alignment problem."

Modern economists have a few solutions up their sleeves.

This type of solution is hugely popular with modern politicians, mostly because, well, they cost next to nothing.

One billion people live in the world's most remote communities, and despite the advances we've made in modern medicine and technology, our innovations are not reaching the last mile.

We equipped her with modern medical technology, like this $1 malaria rapid test, and put it in a backpack full of medicines like this to treat infections like pneumonia, and crucially, a smartphone, to help her track and report on epidemics.

Now, it's a feature of modern life, I suppose, that large swaths of the public live in isolated information bubbles.

In the middle of the 19th century, with the construction of the Crystal Palace in London, glass leapt to the top of the list of quintessentially modern substances.

And in the modern world, we have no excuse.

Our modern funerary practices are designed to stave off the natural processes that happen to a body after death.

First, meet Adam Smith, founding father of modern economics.

Now, the modern twist on this display argument is that the peacock is also advertising its health to the peahen.

Even as we are profoundly affecting our environment, modern medicine and technological innovation is profoundly affecting the very essence of what it means to look beautiful.

So let me first explain how modern AI works, taking the "Jeopardy!"

Unfortunately, none of the modern AIs, including Watson, Siri and Todai Robot, is able to read.

OK, so now you might understand what I said: modern AIs do not read, do not understand.

And this is what I want to talk you through, as well as how do we challenge this in a modern era?

They're very much a modern movement.

This is the stuff that actually really matters, because this is the laws of the universe and it applies to eggs and toast falling butter-side down and all sorts of other things, just as much as it applies to modern technology and anything else that's going on in the world.

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