Sentence examples for model for modern from inspiring English sources

"In Patagonia" became a model for modern travel-writers, but its facility is deceptive.

"I suppose you could say they're a model for modern Europe," Mr. Robb continued.

The clear division of labor between the two became a model for modern China.

Florence Nightingale received training at Kaiserswerth, which was an important model for modern nursing schools.

Theirs is now the model for modern business: machines that manage to service us while getting us to service them.

Firms flirted with all sorts of businesses before homing in on patented pharmaceuticals as the model for modern big drugmakers.

Arthur has also been used as a model for modern-day behaviour.

One of the original members and the first chancellor of the French Academy, Desmarets opened the long literary battle, since called the querelle des anciens et des modernes (see ancients and moderns), by arguing that the true models for modern French literature were Romance legends and the Bible rather than classical Greek and Roman writers.

The organizations formed at Bologna became models for modern universities.

Now the models for modern investment institutions are the endowments of Harvard and Yale.

Germany and Britain have also adopted programmes that give car owners incentives to trade in older models for modern, fuel-efficient vehicles.