Sentence examples for modern activities from inspiring English sources

All of it is growing alarmingly acidic, as the carbon dioxide spewed out by modern activities finds its way into the briny.

Because of our slightly younger average age and city location, we were supposedly one of the "new wave" WIs that had started springing up in the years before – groups that rejected crochet and did more modern activities, often with more than a tinge of irony.

Modern activities such as air travel, delineation of borders, space travel, and search and rescue operations rely upon map projections that accurately map the Earth's coordinate system.

In a statement Ms Mayes said plans for revamped community centres across Wiltshire - the council's preferred option for future youth service provision - would provide "modern activities" that better reflected young people's needs.

Typically, a large pool of unskilled labor is transferred from subsistence-level occupations to more modern activities that do not demand much upgrading of these workers' skills, but nonetheless employ higher levels of capital and embedded technology.

This growth pattern tends to eventually slow down, either when the pool of transferable unskilled labor is exhausted or if the expansion of labor-absorbing modern activities peaks before the pool is empty.

In fact, it may be argued that the modern activity of book collecting is largely a product of the printing press.

The sweeping descriptions of crowds and dry-goods displays justify Zola's characterization of the novel as "a poem of modern activity".

For Rostow, encouraging this process meant promoting new "enclaves of modern activity" that could be economically fused together to become the nation's "normal condition … built, as it were, into its habits and institutional structure".

But, as Jay Bahadur makes clear in "The Pirates of Somalia," buccaneering has evolved into a very modern activity, complete with night vision goggles, GPS units and even investment advisers.

Modern activity recognition systems are usually multimodal and capitalize on a wide availability of resources [4].