Sentence examples for modern cause from inspiring English sources

"It's not uncommon for sainthood to take hundreds of years, but the fact that Father McGivney is a modern cause works in our favor," he said.

Lawrence, who in the ordinary course of events was destined to obscurity, into a model of modern chivalry, a modern crusader in the modern cause of national self-determination: the only real popular hero to emerge from the war--Lawrence of Arabia.

This institution, rooted in biblical and Talmudic teachings and whose name is a contraction of the Hebrew words for "bestowal of kindness" ("gemilut chasadim"), is now meeting needs created by such resolutely modern causes as subprime mortgages, outsourcing and credit default swaps.

This poses the question of which modern causes of death are most strongly correlated with conditions 100 years ago.

This is true of many modern causes of death, including most common cancers and circulatory and respiratory disease.

Even after adjustment for modern deprivation, standardised mortality ratios from the 1900s show a significant correlation with modern mortality and most modern causes of death.

Modern causes are dominated by cancers, which contributed 25.6% of all deaths in 2001, ischaemic heart diseases (19.9%), and stroke (11.0%).

This goes beyond what would have been expected from the continuing relation between deprivation and mortality and holds true for most major modern causes of death.

Table 5 correlates standardised mortality ratios of the 14 modern causes of death given in VS4DL data with mortality and deprivation in the past by using Pearson's product moment correlations and partial correlations that take modern deprivation into account.

Therefore it seems that once modern deprivation is taken into account the patterns of most major modern causes of death can be predicted from mortality in the past but not from the deprivation of the past.

On the other hand, as almost all modern causes of death show this relation this might suggest that there is a wider association that is perhaps more likely to be linked to area effects.