Sentence examples for a modern echo from inspiring English sources

Let's hope that these novels help build pressure on trafficking as a modern echo of slavery.

To me at least, this church — obsessed with dogma and rules and distracted from social justice — is a modern echo of the Pharisees whom Jesus criticized.

Her advice for future filmmakers might be a modern echo of the lesson of Greene's book: "I'd suggest time," she said.

Republicans, using the rallying cry "It's your money," are promoting a $550 billion tax cut that would take health care from sick children -- a modern echo of Emerson's "wicked dollars".

The spurious justifications given for detaining the Central American families – and the conditions in which they are held – are a modern echo of the similarly unjustified mass incarceration of Japanese American families.

Some experts, in a modern echo of a view put forward in World War II, argue that soldiers who develop P.T.S.D. have longstanding vulnerabilities — psychological or physiological — that make them unable to withstand the pressures of combat.

The movie's director, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, has no interest in the Thoreau-like niceties of construction; most of it is done as a montage, to music, in a scruffy modern echo of the barn-raising sequence from "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (1954).

"At least we made our own mess" seems the modern echo of Churchillian spirit.

Those who deny them are unlikely to be swayed by argument or logic, partly because of the native workings of the human mind, and perhaps compounded by the modern echo chambers of cyberspace.

Iran's nationalisation in 1951 of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's assets devastated the firm, a precursor of BP.There are modern echoes of these episodes.

Since 9/11, appalling hate speech about Islam has circulated in the U.S. on talk radio, on the Internet and in particular among conservative Christian pastors -- the modern echoes of Charles Coughlin, the "radio priest" who had a peak listening audience in the 1930's of one-third of America for his anti-Semitic diatribes.