Sentence examples for modern facts from inspiring English sources

These modern facts affect everyone.

This conflict was evident to the layperson, and in the 1819 inquiry, Jackson directly asked William Gladstone, surgeon to the Naval Asylum at Greenwich, whether he would "rather be governed by modern facts" or "historical reports?" As the medical establishment came to feel more threatened, their focus turned to the momentum of new ideas, and a need for caution was emphasized.

When Marcel Duchamp arrived in New York its skyline was already a colossal modern fact.

Surprisingly, though, the focus of modern fact checks is rarely what we 20th-century fact-checkers would have underlined as checkable facts.

"What I like about this design is the very modern fact that you can read the lines on the coin and then go and look them up.

Joshua Hersh, a modern fact-checker who is characteristically calmer than marble, refers to this zone of time as "the last-minute heebie-jeebies".

The rise of A4e also highlights a very modern fact of public life: handing over large swaths of what the state used to do to the private sector has become so mundane as to barely attract comment, and some people have been doing very well out of it indeed.

They well know that, for modern history, facts are so plentiful and so very diverse that they are only meaningful insofar as the historian selects from them, places them in a certain order, and interprets them.

I think we owe it to our children to teach them the best possible modern scientific facts and theories.

The first image at Tate Modern, in fact, is not by O'Keeffe but a close-up of her fierce beauty by Stieglitz.

She seems like some New World Romantic who actually promises us habitation in quite another world from the dishwasher-spirited world of modern acquisitive fact.