Sentence examples for modern exercise from inspiring English sources

What his team was doing in San Salvador was "a modern exercise in inspiration.

He invented the forerunners of modern exercise machines like leg-extension and pulley devices.

Modern exercise has a background in sport, even in the ancient gymnasia – but it is really quite different.

Mr. Jones, who died last Tuesday at age 80, invented Nautilus exercise equipment, which helped to spur the modern exercise revolution and the rise of the gym in American life.

"However," one fan wrote, "if, say, Ruth were born in 1970 and grew up facing sliders and modern pitchers and modern exercise techniques, he probably would dominate today's game as he dominated it in the 1920's".

Used in Russia for over a century to train weight lifters and soldiers, these cast-iron weights (picture a cannonball crossed with a handbag) are catapulting into the modern exercise world.

The basic modern exercises were developed in the early 19th century by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, founder of the German turnverein.

Deeply historic, it offers climbs from the delicate and bold to elegant crack-lines, grunting chimneys and easy stepped slabs first climbed in the Victorian era, and desperate modern exercises at the limit of adhesion of skin and shoe rubber to rock.

The harmful impacts of rural and modern exercises and urban advancement on adjoining groundwater have incited examinations on the nature of these sources (Dawoud and Raouf 2009).

But while "Was" stands, on its most basic level, as an inventive improvisation on L. Frank Baum's classic story, it is hardly a simple post-modern exercise in reimagining a famous classic.

Movies, as we're reminded in this delightfully deadpan second novel, can be every bit as addictive as the more traditional escapes from modern life (exercise, sex, shopping).