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Some consumers even consider shopping to be something of a sport, perhaps even the modern-day national pastime.

"Imagine a spider silk vest, capable of catching bullets, the modern day equivalent of Genghis Khan's arrows, " she said.

You may be dealing with a modern day Napoleon in the office if your manager demands the unachievable from her subordinates.

Bambiraptor had a keen sniffer similar to that of a modern-day turkey vulture.

The Billings were a modern-day, magnanimous sort of Brady Bunch -- each had two children from previous marriages.

Bloody hell, I felt good after that performance, as if I was in a low-budget, modern-day version of Robin Hood.

For a small but increasingly high-profile number of young women in modern-day China, true love is all about the numbers.

In a backyard of this dusty, isolated town in the heart of Australia's outback are signs of a modern-day gold rush.

More than once, Mr Blair suggests that the role of a modern-day prime minister is like that of a corporate CEO.

It was also possible that modern-day researchers might have missed important clues about where Cleopatra was buried.

Almost pulled down in the 1960s to make way for a second ring road around the modern day city, a large portion in fact escaped destruction.

Fantastic to see that the superb modern-day British morals have now made it into the Olympics.

Milton Friedman held unswervingly to his principles, but was more pragmatic than some of his modern-day followers.

It could, like the modern-day albatross, glide by navigating through thermals but was also fully capable of powered flight.

Giganto, as it is called for short, seems to have been a bamboo eater, something like modern day panda bears.

In a few short weeks I had traced The Secret back trough the centuries, and I had discovered the modern-day practitioners of The Secret.

He's a modern day master making incredible 3D images that pop off the page - armed only with a pencil and a piece of paper.

That was eight years ago and I'm only now making beginning to make peace with my modern-day gender dilemma.

Service to a higher cause breeds loyalty. The most popular character, at least among our group, was Omar, a modern-day Robin Hood.

He had none of the modern day scientific equipment and he was way ahead of his time.

The British divided up the Indian empire into 3 parts, the central part, with a Hindu majority, became modern-day India.

Because of his infatuation with the natural world, one could almost understand Malick as a sort of modern day Francis of Assisi.

When on the surface, the quartermasters may use a sextant to obtain navigation fixes as a backup to our modern day systems.

But the plan backfired, with modern-day historians claiming that Versailles was a key factor in the lead-up to World War II.

It's about one and a half inches square, it's very thin and it looks and feels a bit like a modern-day business card.

The answer goes back to William James, one of the founders of modern-day psychology, who made a distinction between two types of attention.

For instance, modern-day ice cracks off Antarctica are "chockablock" with single-celled life-forms, he said.

The documentaries also show that it is possible for victims of modern-day slavery to regain their freedom.

In fact, there was no "old religion" and modern day Wicca originated in the 20th century and was popularized by Gerald Gardner in 1954.

Much of the work on modern day pricing theory started in a still obscure field known as psychophysics.

Enjoy lush blends of synthesizer, piano, cello, flute, and guitar as you experience a modern day revival of classic compositions.

With modern shop fittings, the modern-day pawn brokers have sprung up in prime locations in town centres.

For the most part the mainframes of privilege and wealth are still in place in modern-day Europe.

Super high heels are very impractical, and with the damage they do, wearing them might even be described as modern-day foot binding!

Enemas are the predecessors to modern day colonic irrigation using state-of-the-art colon hydrotherapy equipment.

The famous Disney Imagineers would be lost without the modern-day myths they use as the foundation for the experiences they build.

Northern Anhui was firmly a part of the North China Plain in terms of culture, together with modern-day Henan province.

More than one pundit, praising Jobs' ability to transform entire industries with his inventions, called him a modern-day Leonardo Da Vinci.

All of these factors, of course, were beyond Auerbach's ken. But they do make modern-day coaching a more complicated undertaking.

Ban Ki-moon has just returned from the Arctic where he traveled to see firsthand how modern-day climate change is altering the region.

Ban Ki-moon has just returned from the Arctic where he traveled to see first hand how modern-day climate change is altering the region.

Second, the Federal Reserve is boosting the money supply by creating commercial bank reserves, the modern day equivalent of printing money.

Propped against the wall was a skeleton in ragged clothes wearing modern day trainers.

Communication companies are often central to modern-day revolutions, as Facebook and Twitter were in the Egyptian uprising.

But it was the Pinatubo eruption that provided a modern-day example of geoengineering's potential.

Kodak created in 1888 by George Eastman has been a modern day pioneer of sorts in cameras and photography for the masses.

Do modern day singles need modern day myths. . . . . . just to help us get through our random and sometimes miserable relationships?

Such claims need to be unambiguous and credible in terms of modern day environmental thinking.

Fryers is normally a left-back. When he suffered cramp late in the second half, Dimitar Berbatov took over, like a modern-day Beckenbauer.

End, three melt to put together and use to the modern day porcelain and ceramics of design of development put forward new of request.

For the citizens of modern-day Mongolia, Genghis Khan is a folk hero and a symbol of their emerging democracy.

As it is throughout the region, history in Iraq is a battleground in which faiths seek precedence for modern-day claims.

Modern Day Pirates The age of piracy has not disappeared and remains with us to this day.

Like a modern-day Peter Pan, he is childless and hasn't the vaguest concept of what it means to be mature.

e. g. This agricultural boom, often described as a modern day gold rush, has brought a new way of life to the coastal plains of Almeria.

She became a superstar in a modern day Cinderella story playing a prostitute with a heart of gold rescued by a handsome prince charming.

With modern-day technological advances, you can send an email from pretty much anywhere. As it turns out, even from beyond the grave.

Is the answer to complex modern-day finance that we return to the simpler banking practices of a half century ago?

The original basketball shoe is now defined as a stylish modern-day fashion staple!

If you just want to put on a heavy coat and drink a fancy vodka in a modern-day igloo, consider the fun, if touristy, Absolut Icebar.

JOE SOWERS: "Cultural understanding, cultural awareness is essential for a modern-day officer. "

California has endured high foreclosure rates and a 12. 3% unemployment rate -- just short of the modern-day high for the Golden State.

A man walks his camel past the Step Pyramid of Sakkara, Egypt. The ancient structure stands close to modern-day Cairo.

So prepared yourself for modern-day knighthood with a lighter, some breath strips, and three other essentials.

He's not perfect, and he knows it: With this list, we're not saying a modern-day gentleman is made of perfection.

Charles Schulz's Charlie Brown is a good example of a modern-day comic strip that inspired movies, plays, and books.

"To a little girl, a hostess is like a modern-day princess. "

His ever-evolving game typifies the kind of all-around skill set most modern-day big men strive for.

Paddy is a modern-day renaissance man in his mid-40s whose life at times seems only slightly less fantastical than Jackson's.

I met a modern day Dongba by the name of Yang Mingyi from Lower Yellow Hill Section in Lijiang's old town's residential area.

An interesting modern-day case is that of Alex Mitchell (snopes. com), an English bricklayer.

Here you can discover how communication has changed over the year, from early letter writing to modern-day text messaging.

back to Lijiang. It will lead me off the modern-day main road and through another ancient Bai village called Shaxi.

In the next programme, I'll be looking further east, beyond Sinai to Mesopotamia - modern-day Iraq.

Let's take a look at Parry's research and how it affects what modern day scholars think about Homer.

More than anything he understands what makes players tick in the modern day, and I think the players appreciate that.

Curved out delicately in the shape of a giant human foot, I feel this is a very distinctive item of modern day furniture.

Longfellow's poems may seem old-fashioned now, but he was considered a "new poet" in his day. What would a modern-day poet write about you?

On modern-day Earth, which is saturated with life, a few more organic materials wouldn't make much of a difference.

Critics call the practice the modern day equivalent of looking at share prices listed in tomorrow's newspaper stock tables today.

Read the news today: We know he was on the Internet, but can he talk about the big stories? A modern-day gentleman can.

Watching Suben teach on a recent October afternoon, I initially forgot to note whether her classroom contained any modern-day technology.

The historic centre of town is the Durbar Square, where the compulsory cluster of temples oversees the bustle of modern-day Kathmandu.

But if the system allows the ruling party to lose power then it becomes a lot less palatable to the modern-day Mandarins.

Transylvania passed to various powers over the following centuries and finally became part of modern-day Romania after World War II.

The Campana Brothers were asked to create a modern day, contemporary version of a gloriette.

Here you can discover how communication has changed over the years, from early letter writing to modern-day text messaging.

The British film Lady Godiva is a romantic comedy shot set in modern day Oxford in the vein of Notting Hill and Bridget Jones.

With such abundant reserves, Kalgoorlie's modern-day prospectors are more than just hobbyists.

Modern-day, low-tech mass atrocities, by contrast, involve hundreds of thousands of killers.

With such abundant reserves, Kalgoorlie's modern-day prospectors are more than just hobbyists.

Modern-day, low-tech mass atrocities, by contrast, involve hundreds of thousands of killers.

The rest of Eurasia, including modern-day China, was then populated by southeast Asians moving northward.

It charts the fascinating and often dramatic ways in which the capital has transformed from Bronze Age settlement to modern-day metropolis.

Marx might mind once China's stock bubble bursts, taking away the hard-earned wages of the country's modern-day equivalent of peasants.

A modern day Chinese orchestra now generally employs a full set of woodblocks in different sizes.

Obviously, the demands on a modern day athlete are not confines to hust hours, your personal life must compliment commitment in the pitch.

The high-scorers are those living in remote villages where the illusion of being a modern day Marco Polo actually approaches reality.

The 1989 superpower was the USSR, its modern day equivalent is the US. Naturally it isn't that simple, but that's not my point.

I was very surprised to find this out but Sony is going to market this as the modern day rangefinder for street photography.

I was very surprised to find this out but Sony is going to market this as the modern day rangefinder for street photography.

So the final push took them eastward. The last great conquest was Dacia, a rich empire in modern day Romania.

An ancient town so close to Shanghai, QiBao is a perfect spot for modern day treasure hunting.

any modern-day man demanding marriage with a young girl dishonors the faith.

Patwant Singh says the fact that the Mughals were Muslims, a minority in modern-day India, might play a role in the decision.

Am I right? Yeah. A modern day poet. Yeah, you could say that.

Now civil-rights lawyers are turning once again to psychology as a way to reveal the powerful hidden barriers created by modern-day bias.

Instant fame has brought wealth to some of these young writers in turn transforming them into modern day pop stars.

In the modern-day game, it's obvious where the top players are now because there's less and less of them.

To paraphrase the title of a recent bestselling book about modern-day women, I don't know how in the world Julie does it.

To paraphrase the title of a recent bestselling book about modern-day women, I don't know how in the world Julie does it.

An ancient region and Roman province of the Iberian Peninsula. It corresponded roughly to modern-day Portugal.

This being the 21st century, he does what any self-respecting modern-day superhero would do and sets up his own MySpace page.

In it there are pictures and exhibits from his childhood to modern day.

Modern day Halloween celebrations use many symbols to help make the holiday more interesting. Do you know what they are?

I've been traveling for the last 25 years, as a musician, as a modern day troubadour, and as a guest in a lot of places.

Identify some of the modern-day expressions of the ascetic, work-righteous, Word-denying errors described in verse 3.

The wasps that created these shapes burrowed near dinosaur nests, and are very similar to modern-day wasps.

They have pincers instead of fangs - like the modern day camel spider, only much bigger.

Modern-day Rome is the capital of Italy once again and one of the most visited places in the world.

A modern-day devotee of the hotel is Jorgen Leth, a Danish filmmaker who has spent a lot of time in Haiti over the last thirty years.

In and in the modern day establishment's ancient time, this gem is considered a person possibly some most expensive property.

It named the Liverpool band "the sole group who has most shaped the face of modern-day show business" .

As an important trading centre, Ashur had by 1900 BCE established commercial colonies in Anatolia (modern day Turkey).

The restaurant is popular with Russia's modern-day spy-bureaucrats, and others nostalgic for the days of Soviet power.

Several modern-day research groups are following up on this line of research.

Modern-day fiat currencies mean that money supply is not restricted by the stock of gold.

A group of modern-day students is mysteriously transported to a fantasy world in peril.

Rising from the ashes of a failed potato exchange in downtown Manhattan, the modern-day oil market came to prominence in the 1980s.

That isn't an option for modern-day soldiers, whose Kevlar-fiber helmets can defend against bullets but don't work so well for fixing food.

Like Athens, the modern-day so-called liberal democracies are also "managed" by a ruling class.

History doesn't just belong to modern-day Muslims, especially if it is related to Islam as done by Muslims of other centuries.

The logo type was derived from Gotham Light where I doubled the type and created a thick and thin on a modern day classic.

By the standards of modern-day encryption techniques, substitution cyphers are child's play.

This, coupled with the shared top-three ranking for both men and women, suggests a commonality that seems positively modern-day.

From Nazis to modern-day criminals, Switzerland's legendary bank secrecy has long been exploited by those with assets to hide.

Scientists have compared a dinosaur with several modern-day animals to settle who wins the heavy-weight head-butting title.

More important, do you know what to look out for in the erratic world of modern-day investing?

Clinton's trouser suits , although they have drawn considerable attention , may not actually be the modern-day answer .

The ancient flowering plant, Archaefructus liaoningensis, resembles a modern-day buttercup, with slender stems and three-lobed leaves.

Examples of (self proclaimed) modern day communist countries include the PRC, Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam.

In the 1920s, George Ohsawa , the founder of modern day macrobiotics asserted that he was cured of a grave illness by modifying his diet.

His trip in 1534 retraced much of the voyages of the vikings and established contacts with natives in modern-day Canada.

We were millions of years too late to use most of the tools of modern-day coroners .

You are walking through modern-day Cologne, Germany, on a beautiful morning radiant with the promise of summer.

Borrowing short-term at a near risk-free rate and lending at a longer and riskier yield has been the basis of modern-day finance.

Modern day visitors of London's Piccadilly Street will find themselves reveling in a world of history and glamour.

In essence they sold off part of the company to whomever wanted to buy it, which is the essence of the modern day stock market.

New research hints that modern-day versions of the insects are far older than any tyrannosaur that trod the Earth.

Perhaps no other modern-day marketer has captured the public's imagination like Steve Jobs.

"Ponyo" is set in modern-day Japan and Ponyo of course is no mermaid.

Modern day user experience research methods can now answer a wide range of questions.

The Elegance shower range is for easy access, disabled and mobility impaired with all the style that a modern day home requires.

With on-line shopping fast gaining popularity in China, more people began to have a taste of modern day E-commerce.

Pottery found in Hambleden comes from modern-day Italy, France, Belgium and Germany, showing the trade which the Empire brought.

This stallion's impact on the breed and its commerce is a modern day phenomenon.

A tangle of - unpayable? - claims against the banks is, like some modern-day Jarndyce and Jarndyce case, stemming that flow.

This is really the modern-day son of the US bazooka and the German panzerfaust of World War II. It is shoulder-fired and highly portable.

Modern day celebrations include fireworks, people walking on stilts, and folk dancing.

Like modern day Iran, I initially wanted access to Uranium so that I could finally get some nuclear plants up.

Undeniably appealing to children, the custom evolved into modern-day "trick-or-treating" .

Modern day Ashkenazim are now far more likely to marry outside their ethnic group.

Even dachshunds who are abundantly pampered with modern day amenities still maintain this innate hunting instinct.

Maybe knowing what circumstances made the authors of Scripture open-minded can help make modern-day believes open-minded.

Hot and spicy Sichuan cuisine, acupuncture, and even some modern-day Chinese slang are smartly blended into the sequel.

Many of the accounts of ritualistic initiation bare striking parallels to modern day UFO contactee and abduction lore.

Admirers say Yao has done more for improving China's image overseas than any modern-day politician or diplomat.

The modern-day caravans to Beijing led by Western politicians are no less impressive than Lord Macartney's.

It is a place where ancestral worship and the mystic art of feng shui - Asian geomancy - still grip the modern-day Korean imagination.

Scripting languages like Ruby, Python, and PHP power modern-day server-side Web development.

C. Today, government, tourism, and shipping dominate the economy in Greece's modern-day capital.

Miguel found that modern-day witch-killings in Tanzania are correlated with droughts and floods.

He shook off questions about which ideology he followed to accomplish his modern-day rags-to-riches story.

Like most ancient civilizations, the Chinese had something that could be considered akin to modern day beer.

Many of these modern-day faith healers have patients who are actually healed by these practices.

The order of the Ten Commandments will help us understand this modern-day problem.

Unlike series that are set in the modern day, period dramas give me a lot of room for imagination and to fantasise .

In the hustle and bustle of modern day life, people seldom to stop to enjoy the beauty of nature.

No precedents were available to show us how a modern day currency board system should be structured.

Modern-day offenders, whose numbers, sadly, are increasing, are not so lucky.

Chess enthusiasts in what's now modern-day Germany begin developing increasingly elaborate battlefield strategy games based on the original.

Maybe the sceptics are right, and the stimulus money is being wasted on the modern-day equivalent of wall building.

think of the roadster as a high-performance, modern-day 300SL Roadster and you're on the right track.

But Mr Cooper's book is by far the most cogent and reasoned of the modern-day "credit excess" school.

A few years later, he burst back onto the screen in a big way in the modern-day classic Tiger Cage.

The film is set in modern-day Los Angeles and follows a group of U. S. Marines during a global invasion by aliens.

But in the modern-day newspaper market, price is not necessarily the key issue.

The scientists believe it means that modern? day birds are actually living dinosaurs.

They were great hit and run fighters, and their descendants teach modern day special forces how to fight in hand to hand combat.

He noted that in modern day finance the majority of transactions were conducted electronically without the use of cash.

In PEI, currently the status of sexual education is behind the modern day reality.

They are no thicker than about one or two stories in a modern day building.

This is one of the influences of Mark Twain's satire on modern day society.

So they take her off, they take her around over to Asia Minor, modern day Turkey.

But, do they actually know how they are producing those sounds that are appealing to their modern day listening audience?

Mr. Choe's page on Facebook shows the life of a modern-day renegade artist.

The modern day Hunan University is a descendant of the academy.

The villain is a modern-day Mongol with dreams of restoring national power and pride.

This is a modern day dairy factory; it can't be called a farm. Most of our milk and cheese come from places like this.

Bosses have produced a modern-day drama about the fictional 19th Century detective and his sidekick .

While at rest, the vehicle becomes a balcony, with the car seats used as modern-day rocking chairs.

It uses light, and the lack thereof, to paint a loving but poignant picture of modern-day parenting.

In this issue, he captures the earnest dissonance of modern-day China's reverence for Mao.

A modern-day creator of "twittering machines, " Arthur Ganson uses simple, plain materials to build witty mechanical art.

Childhood has become the great casualty of modern-day living.

The modern day life is an entangled web of complexity.

In fact, the following thoughts offer an interesting insight into how some modern-day players tend to handle the pressure.

Some experts say they are modern-day victims of an antiquated system.

Theirs was really a victory for all modern day California vintners , who would no longer live in the shadow of European wine.

The film is a fabulous tale of witchcraft and wizardry set in modern-day Britain.

Few modern day bubbles grow as big, or as rapidly, as China's domestic "A" share markets.

"Spend money and you'll be doing good" might, in fact, be a motto for modern-day Britain.

The process detailed below is well worth adopting by any modern day translation team.

The raids spread throughout Europe, from modern day Spain to Turkey.

She plays the role of Lindy, a modern-day Belle who goes for "substance over style. "

Tom and Jerry are a lot like modern-day versions of Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse.

Hadropithecus is related to the modern-day sifaka, a type of lemur with acrobatic leaping skills.

Its chest alone was nearly 16 feet (5 meters) in diameter, about the size of an entire modern-day elephant.

Often modern-day lawyers are seen as following the beliefs of sophists.

Today, the Buffalo Bill Rodeo and Nebraskaland Days is the modern-day version of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.

West Side Story is a modern-day version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

allocation of decision rights within modern day MNCs.

"The Internet is the modern-day freak show, " says Szymanski.

Modern-day democracies are kleptocracies in one way or another.

Human traffickers use the internet to find and lure new victims into modern-day slavery.

In this modern day, we do not do the virgin birth thing.

Apart from the wear and tear, they look remarkably similar to their modern day versions.

Hey, Yale. Would you rather be bitten by a saber-toothed tiger or a modern day tiger?

One site of the Shang capitals, later historically called the Ruins of Yin, is near modern day Anyang.

A misunderstanding of evolutionary theory has given way to the idea that humans came from modern-day primates.

Of course, all these services and devices aren't solely to blame for our modern-day misadventures.

It gives a modern-day take on my favorite fairytale, Beauty and the Beast.

Sports are the necessary for the life of modern day's youth.

The film transposes Austen's comedy of manners to modern-day India.

In the hustle and bustle of modern-day life, people seldom stop to enjoy the beauty of nature.

You're seeking an under-the-radar tour of Southeast Asia led by its preeminent modern-day explorer.

The Etruscans came to Italy from western Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey).

Ferguson once derided the modern-day City as being "all talk" .

Modern day ESB solutions are heavy, and hard to introduce in some environments.

Modern day pirates are difficult to catch. They return to small rivers or ports where there is little or no law enforcement.

But they're highly susceptible to modern-day threats such as changing water temperatures, pollution and aggressive fishing practices.

And during this time, there's a surge of prolactin, the likes of which a modern day never sees.

Romeo and Juliet, the blurb explains, is set in modern-day Japan.

According to modern-day Wiccans, most of today's Halloween traditions are actually blah, blah, blah.

The report rates efforts by 164 countries and territories to end modern day slavery.

Paramount's chairman, Brad Grey, has said that the $15, 000 film is the most profitable movie in the studio's modern-day history.

I have described this election as a modern day version of King Kong versus Godzilla.

Iraq is the modern day Sumer, so there is a reason for featuring the Annunaki on their dollars, but what about the Swiss?

You know, the modern day people have a one big problem. Depression. So many people have depression problems.

Could it really be the modern-day Knights Templar?