Sentence examples for a modern day example from inspiring English sources

A modern day example of this phenomenon results when a microphone is placed too close to its accompanying speaker, resulting in an uncomfortable noise (feedback).

The city exudes what is best described as a modern day example of Beauty and the Beast.

My visit to the Nightingale museum also presented me with a modern day example of finding one's calling, even at a later age.

As institutions and organizations search for innovations in financing to meet tremendous health, education and other social sector needs in developing countries, it may well be time to remember the $1.1 million debt-for-health research swap, the first of its kind, successfully completed now almost 18 years ago, to serve as a modern day example in order not to re-invent the wheel.

Such pairings lead to roller coaster rides, each person enacting the other's worst fears: the anxious person recreates the engulfing attachment the dismissive experienced in childhood; the avoidant becomes a modern day example of the unreliable parent of the anxious person's early years.

While Mr. Zumwalt, 26, gives plenty of credit to advancements in seed genetics, he is a modern-day example of how farmers have also increased efficiency through use of better equipment and water-management practices.

Many more seem to disagree with that view and think that whatever the perils of calling Foley a martyr, he ultimately qualifies as one — and in doing so his death, and life, point to a modern-day example of martyrdom that has moved millions of people.

Lorei asked listeners for a modern-day example of the Boston Tea Party.

Boldrin and Levine use open source software as a modern-day example of how collaboration thrives and ideas improve without intellectual property laws.

The success of a stock image relies on its ability to be an empty vessel, to be easily adaptable to any situation, like a modern-day example of the Kuleshov effect.

Their future is mortgaged because higher taxes are inevitable, in order to fund those programs that have been enacted without their consent -- a modern-day example of "taxation without representation".