Sentence examples for modern inception from inspiring English sources

Improvisational comedy has been the cornerstone of north American comedy since its modern inception in the late 1920s by Viola Spolin, and later the British emigre Keith Johnstone, both inspired by older, improvisational forms of theatre.

But from its inception, modern American croquet was meant to be fun, exciting and inclusive.

Though modern in its inception and methods, electronic music taps into the ancient art of vibration and its affects on humans.

In the decades following its inception, the modern Greek state expanded from its core around Athens to encompass almost all Greek-inhabited areas on the European mainland.

Such pogroms against the Jews had taken place since time out of mind, but the inception of modern technologies – the train, the telephone, the gas oven – meant the Nazis could escalate the phenomenon to the level of genocide.

Many of the deepest intellectual commitments of Western culture regarding the character of matter, the nature of space and time, the question of determinism, the meaning of probability and chance, the possibility of knowledge, and much else besides have been vividly challenged since the inception of modern science, beginning with the work of Galileo (1564 1642).

From its late 17th century inception in modern form, science has strongly privileged the reductionist mode of thought that breaks overt complexity into constituent parts and then tries to explain the totality by the properties of these parts and simple interactions fully predictable from the parts.

First we observe that VFI has decreased from about 1.5 to 0.3 in the last 100 years, since the inception of modern volcanology from a hazards perspective.

One of the world's oldest sports, it featured prominently in the ancient Games and has been part of every modern Olympics since their inception in 1896.

Since the inception of modern urban planning in the early 20th century, numerous urban planning policies have been introduced that seek to steer urban form towards desired patterns.

The Alabama built in 1892 represented the inception of modern shipbuilding and design for the Old Bay Line: the first vessel to have a steel hull instead of iron or wood and propelled by a four-cylinder triple-expansion reciprocating engine, the same type engine that all of the line's later steamers would have.