Soccer is often called a results business, but modern circumstances dictate that it often be considered more a business business.
"Gabriel" is an elegy, but it is a peculiar one, "unlike anything anyone else has done, a modern poem about modern circumstances," Richard Howard said.
Adaptation of the law to new social needs was not made by statute alone; the courts, to a certain extent, adjusted the law to modern circumstances.
Its concerns are at once intensely particular — rooted in old customs and modern circumstances — and universally recognizable, since Turkish society is hardly unique in its dysfunctional gender politics.
In modern circumstances it can be a bad sign for democracy in a country, while some examples from antiquity show that a change of capital often signalled a political and cultural sea-change.
It divides itself into five scenes in which Hamlet (and a handful of alter egos, one of which is an actor playing Hamlet) and Ophelia are situated in modern circumstances rife with political and sexual violence.
Indeed, while the Reform Movement, the most liberal within Judaism, has emphasized the need to adapt classical Jewish beliefs to modern circumstances, Rabbi Schindler told a Reform convention in 1983 that its members should set a better example of religious commitment.
A gene which increases the risk of diabetes in modern circumstances of abundant food might, for example, have had benefits in a more austere environment.Indeed, truly deleterious DNA would be expected to be noticeable by its absence, because natural selection would have worked to eliminate it in the 30,000 years since Neanderthals died out.
Yet directors who looked more clearly at the history and the modern circumstances of blacks in America (starting with Oscar Micheaux, in the silent era) have done so, however paradoxically and however infuriatingly, on the basis of Griffith's cinematic vision, which was far more enduring and more significant than his benighted historical vision.
Another characteristic of contemporary doctrinal statements, such as those of the Roman Catholic Second Vatican Council (1962 64) and the Confession of 1967, declared by the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (the forerunner to the contemporary Presbyterian Church [U.S.A.]), is the attempt to reformulate traditional beliefs in ways appropriate to modern circumstances.
