Sentence examples for for modern uses from inspiring English sources

A new model for managing America's airwaves was unveiled Monday, as part of a plan by Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski to ease what he calls America's "spectrum crisis". As wireless devices proliferate, Genachowski has repeatedly said, the U.S. needs to free up more spectrum for modern uses.

It also tweaked an existing incentive plan under which the city provides funds to help convert buildings for modern uses.

The stable block has been converted for modern uses; part of it is listed at Grade II*, and the rest is at Grade II.

Included is a pamphlet (1935) put out by the Federal Housing Authority FHAA) entitled Modernization for Profit showing businessmen and homeowners how to redesign old buildings for modern use.

How can it be adapted for modern use — aside from demolition and cookie-cutter development?

The book, initially published 100 years ago as the textbook of the Glasgow College of Domestic Science, has been updated here for modern use.

More recently it had undergone restoration work to equip it for modern use and meet the needs of the local community.

Soon I bought a copy of "The Little House Cookbook," by Barbara M. Walker, who gamely tried to adapt frontier recipes for modern use.

Mayyim Hayyim, a mikvah that opened here in May, was created as a place for all Jews to take part in the traditional practice and personalize it for modern use.

But that movement's decorative gestures – a modern skyscraper topped with a neo-Classical pediment; a concrete library shaped like the Roman Coliseum – were clearly ironic, with a wink and a nod to past pleasures in ornament rather than with a true commitment to updating those pleasures for modern use.

She collected Vogue's celebrity recipes and menus as a book in 1980 (Food in Vogue, with her own illustrations), and the ancient sources of her own menus were revealed, and translated for modern use, in her book Seven Centuries of English Cooking (1973).