Sentence examples for modern value from inspiring English sources

Both were close to the modern value of 92,955,859 miles, but precision is critical in astronomical terms.

He's a tyrant king whom we've just given all our power to and applauded for embodying the modern value system of narcissism and self-absorption.

Street corners buzz with talk of the college's "elitist" origins, and taverngoers tip beers and wax political on the body's modern value.

The combined data from all observations in 1761 and 1769 established the distance to the Sun to within 1% of its modern value.

Nabu-rimanni also calculated the length of the synodic month (from New Moon to New Moon) to be 29.530614 days, as compared with the modern value of 29.530596 days.

The German-born American physicist A.A. Michelson set the early standard for measurements of the speed of light in the late 1870s, determining a speed within 0.02 percent of the modern value.

Not only can it provide out-relief for wayward princes, it points to exactly the kind of public service a modern, "value-added" monarchy is all about.

Some sacrifices are inevitable to modern values.

Living alone comports with modern values.

This is where I do, as it were, marry traditional and modern values.

It is easy – facile, indeed – to complain when a past generation offends modern values.