(a.) Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.
(a.) New and common; trite; commonplace.
(n.) A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(2) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
(3) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
(4) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(5) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
(6) Although runaway pacemaker is a rare complication in modern pacemakers, but it still exists.
(7) We come to see that some traditions keep us grounded, but that, in our modern world, other traditions set us back.” Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects more than 130 million girls and women around the world.
(8) But when the city's Gallery of Modern Art opened in 1998, it totally – and scandalously – ignored the new wave of Glasgow artists.
(9) Modern art was interpreted in the catalogue as a conspiracy by Russian Bolsheviks and Jewish dealers to destroy European culture.
(10) It has been shown that modern premedication techniques do not prevent the activation of the sympathoadrenal system and the enhanced synthesis of cyclic nucleotides and prostaglandin-like compounds in response to preoperative stress.
(11) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
(12) Our results were consistent with the modern anesthesia standard in closed circuit t.i.
(13) We try to determinate, that systems theory has to be introduced into modern medicine.
(14) The HindIII restriction patterns of 3 of the ancestral S. enteritidis plasmids were identical to the modern 38 MDa plasmid, while all contained identical bands of 3.5, 2.7 and 1.9 kb.
(15) When she speaks, it is in a quiet, clear voice that is middle-class but also flat and London-inflected enough to seem almost classless: it is the voice of the modern southern English professional.
(16) Much more recently, use of modern CT ("computed tomography") scanning equipment on the London Archaeopteryx's skull has enabled scientists to reconstruct the whole of its bony brain case - and so model the structure of the brain itself.
(17) Although classifications initially paralleled the staging of pelvic malignancies, more modern systems follow the natural progression of this pathologic process.
(18) Audiences were disappointed that the love scenes between Taylor and Burton that had been the talk of modern Rome were not repeated with so much passion in those of ancient Rome.
(19) Antimicrobiologic chemotherapy is a cornerstone in the modern concept of treatment of sepsis.
(20) It lies in retrofitting old cities to modern demands.
Shekel
Definition:
(n.) An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.
(n.) A jocose term for money.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have already instructed to stop about 30m shekels (£6.3m) in funding to five UN bodies that are especially hostile to Israel ... and there is more to come,” he said, without giving any further details.
(2) Construction costs are expected to vastly exceed the 1.3bn-shekel (£224m) budget.
(3) What can a few shekels do at the end of the day?” Hanan asks.
(4) Then the Red Cross got in contact and said he was in an Israeli prison.” There, Mohammed received two salaries: the 400 shekels a month paid to prisoners by the Palestinian Authority, and another 400 from prison work.
(5) Olmert was found guilty in 2014 of two bribery charges – accepting 500,000 shekels (£90,000) from developers of a Jerusalem real estate project and 60,000 shekels in a separate land deal.
(6) Stanley Fischer, Israel's central bank governor (3 October) There is no doubt that without intervention the shekel would be much stronger.
(7) Chicken – this large one cost 60 shekels (£10.60) – is a once-a-week treat.
(8) The prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, said the decision by his rightwing cabinet to allocate the extra 70 million shekels was in response to concerns about the security of existing Israeli settlements.
(9) The family say they receive 1,500 shekels (£250), from the Hamas government, approximately every three months.
(10) Ruling in December on his appeal, the supreme court said it had not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Olmert had solicited the 500,000 shekels, and cut his jail term to 18 months.
(11) According to the central bureau of statistics, 41% of Israelis are in a constant state of overdraft with more than a third owing at least 10,000 shekels (£1,650), and most blaming the high cost of living.
(12) They never reach 10 shekels a day,” says Diab, who adds: “I don’t support Fatah or Hamas – they don’t do anything for the population … We just crave a normal life, like anyone outside of Gaza.
(13) Now the company has demanded payment of the bill, which has risen to 9m shekels including interest.
(14) A virgin automatically becomes the wife of her rapist, who is then required to pay the victim’s father 50 shekels for the loss of his property rights.
(15) Roi's monthly take-home pay of 5,500 shekels (£940) went on nursery fees for their two young daughters, she said.
(16) Five thousand years ago, a shekel was a unit of weight – usually barley.
(17) The ministerial committee for legislation passed two bills, one of which limits all funding for non-governmental organisations from foreign bodies, including the United Nations, to 20,000 shekels (£3,300) a year.
(18) The Israeli prime minister unveiled the proposal during a tour of the Jordan border area in Israel’s south, adding that the project – which would cost billions of shekels – would also be aimed at solving the problem of Hamas infiltration tunnels from Gaza, a recent source of renewed concern.
(19) You can’t pass the checkpoint with a shekel [coin] let alone a knife.
(20) The church, which attracts more than 1 million pilgrims each year, has been issued with a 9m shekel (£1.5m) water bill, backdated 15 years to when the supply was taken over by a new company, Hagihon.