Sentence examples for modern surge from inspiring English sources

Yet the Spanish greats are increasingly capitalising on this modern surge of commercialism, and both clubs make more money than United.

When this modern surge of immigrants reinvents New York, as did their Irish, Jewish and Italian forebears a century ago, it is words like these that will be their Hester Street, their Lower East Side, their history, their myths.

As Perkinson sets out to tell the story of America's movement from, in his words, "the age of slavery to the age of incarceration," with the latter period beginning in the mid-1960s and continuing to the present day, he concentrates on Texas in part because the modern surge of its inmate population has far outstripped even the spike in national numbers.

But a modern surge in inequality has new economists wondering, as Marx and Ricardo did, which forces may be stopping the fruits of capitalism from being more widely distributed".Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Thomas Piketty, an economist at the Paris School of Economics, is an authoritative guide to the question.

He brings an insider's wit to tracing the fate of official Christianity in an age of doubt, and to addressing modern surges of zeal, from Mormons to Pentecostals.To work really well, a grand history of a religious tradition has to blend an account of the faith itself with the ways this faith has influenced behaviour and the various historic conditions in which it has been articulated.

Our modern debt surge is much more about declining federal government revenue than it is about runaway spending.

Some of us think Simon Johnson's emphasis on government debt is premature -- let's get the economy moving and pivot to deficits afterwards -- but he's certainly right when he says that "Our modern debt surge is much more about declining federal government revenue than it is about runaway spending".

The lithe, stretched bodies of late-20th-century modern dance surged through dance that told the stories of the creation of the world and of black American myths, with intensity and an appreciation for the power of ritual.

The modern-day surge of interest and synthesis between evolutionary biology and the biomedical sciences, medical practice, and public health can build on a long legacy that spans more than two centuries.

In modern football players surge the length of the field in a pattern of tidal movement.

Usually that's because of the way modern full-backs surge forwards, the clash with the opposing forward becoming sometimes a gauge of who's on top, and sometimes a decisive factor.