Sentence examples for and still current from inspiring English sources

It was folkloric and universal in Europe, and still current in St Petersburg in 1866, when a supposed progressive character in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment reveals his heartlessness by denouncing the folly of cutting up your own cloak.

His father, after seeing "Beyond the Horizon," said: "It's all right if that's what you want to do, but people come to the theater to be entertained, not be depressed". Tonight's "A Glory of Ghosts" is an eloquent rejoinder to that hoary and still current bromide.

Accordingly, in a familiar and still current sense, phenomena are whatever we observe (perceive) and seek to explain.

As part of the university's new strategic emphasis on the arts, Scott Lindroth is named Duke's first (and still current) vice provost for the arts​​.

Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder at Harvard's Berkman Center has spent many years researching the future of the Internet, and his 2009 book (under the same title) provides an important and still current overview of the Net evolution and its most urgent problems -- such as privacy, copyright, security and related regulations.

During the earlier stages of the UN Security Council, ("UNSC"), debates on Syria, when a credible resolution was within reach, I had the opportunity to observe behind-the scenes interaction between then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and still current Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, (and previously my counterpart as Russia's UN Ambassador to the UN in the 1990's).

Of the 9,393 loans originally in the deal, 14 percent have been modified and are still current on their payments.

Recently, we have demonstrated that there was a considerable percentage of smoking patients with tobacco-related diseases did not successfully quit smoking, and were still current smokers.

When Yeats left, Luke paid a reporter one hundred dollars to write twenty intimate and harmless anecdotes about Masefield, and these are still current.

Witherspoon would have been horrified to know that some of his "improprieties and vulgarisms" are still current: We get mad at each other (instead of angry), and young scholars will once in a while get drunk (instead of sometimes).

But it was really shrub.com's post that coined the phrase and established the still current usage.