Sentence examples for active contemporary from inspiring English sources

The Sudanese politician Hassan al-Turabi, who has died aged 84, was Africa's most active contemporary Islamic ideologue.

"I've tried, in Seattle, to insert a very active contemporary art collection into an existing museum," he said.

There is, perhaps surprisingly, an active contemporary arts scene in Dubai; but it is Mathaf that may effectively begin to imprint the range and ambition of Arab modern and contemporary art on the minds of western art-lovers and academics.

"So I'm still active with contemporary music," he says a tad defensively, "even if I play Bach as well".

These strains were collected from different habitats: temperate environment and Arctic active layers (contemporary samples), permafrost (age is 1.8-3.0 myr) and cryopeg, a layer of unfrozen ground in permafrost, (age is 120,000-200,000 yeand), and from different geographic locations (Table  1).

It's a far cry from the active engagement of contemporary performers, who tend to be deeply involved in the choreographic process.

In previous centuries the classic literature had fallen into neglect, but the writings of Yāzijī and of other Christian Arabs helped to revive it as an active element in contemporary Arabic culture.

A more evenhanded appraisal of the latter camp - and its active engagement in contemporary social and cultural issues - informs "The American Style: Colonial Revival and the Modern Metropolis," an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York (June 14 to October 30).

Commercially, states such as Miletus, Corinth, and Aegina were at least as active, and the contemporary tyrant Polycrates of Samos was as important a patron of the arts and letters.

"The museum has long been an active collector of contemporary art, but has lagged behind other comparable institutions such as the Tate Gallery in London in organizing provocative and groundbreaking exhibitions," said Kitty Scott, who was the gallery's curator of contemporary art from 2000 to 2006 and who is now the director of visual arts at the Banff Center in Alberta.

The ethnic minority artists who are active largely avoid contemporary, more realistic depictions of their homelands.