Sentence examples for modern relative from inspiring English sources
"They did a reasonably good job, though the building obviously looks pretty modern relative to the other architecture".
Here, the reform agenda is a diffuse one, including: a career civil service; better banking supervision; bankruptcy laws that allow banks to collect loan guarantees; and what Mr Williamson calls "industrial policy's modern relative", a national innovation system for new technology.Thirdly, the "new Washington consensus" includes some policies designed to reduce inequality.
Figure 4 plots the modern relative proportions of cattle, sheep/goats and horses maintained by countries along the steppe zone for the ten years from 1999 to 2008.
Further, nobody has ever succeeded in proving a statistical H-theorem on the basis of the ergodic hypothesis, or on the basis of a modern relative such as the hypothesis of 'metrical transitivity'.
A typical modern relative gravimeter, the Scintrex CG-5, has a sensitivity of 1 μGal, corresponding to a layer of 0.024 m of water in an infinitely extended horizontal sheet.
Hung and his colleagues collected tiny tissue samples from four well-preserved passenger pigeons held at museums around the world and used cutting-edge genetic technology to sequence the animals' DNA, as well as the DNA of a modern relative, the domestic pigeon.
Their modern relatives are quillworts, just six inches high.
The concert juxtaposed old rural traditions and their rocking modern relatives.
In conducting the study, the researchers looked at two close modern relatives of dinosaurs, the ostrich and the alligator.
Dragonflies may have hovered and hunted across the planet for the last 325m years, but their modern relatives are staring extinction in the face.
Though it dates from the early Jurassic, it is in essence similar to its modern relatives, the royal ferns, which might thus reasonably be described as living fossils.In this section BICEP flexes its muscles Jurassic mark Acid test Paying guests Fat chance Reprints.
