Sentence examples for modern work on from inspiring English sources

He wrote two major works; this one, the first modern work on tropical fauna, was published posthumously in Dutch in 1705.

Jacobs' views on the spontaneous self-organisation of urban environments anticipated modern work on ecosystems and other natural "complex systems".

The best modern work on Chinggis Khan is Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy by Paul Ratchnevsky, trans.

The first important modern work on the geography of Arabia, Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888), was written by English traveler Charles M. Doughty.

The most significant modern work on its subject...Habermas offers perhaps the richest, best developed conceptualization available of the social nature and foundations of public life.

At the time, Tribe was a 45-year-old professor of constitutional law at the Harvard Law School, the author of the leading modern work on the Constitution, and a frequent and successful advocate before the United States Supreme Court.

Neither's endnotes and bibliographies indicate that they have even glanced at almost any of the most important modern works on British imperial history.

Christie's rival 84-lot sale of Impressionist and modern works on Tuesday evening raised £136.9 million, with 92percentt of the works sold.

The painting is among the most modern works on display, by which I mean that although the subject is the quietude, light and topography of rural Denmark, its formal austerity (note the empty foreground and sky), blurry scenery and limited color scale are radically modern, even avant-garde.

It has the backing of Boris Johnson, and its supporters are making what I guess is intended to be a subtle diplomatic argument on behalf of proper figurative art; it's just for six months, they say, and will simply become part of the lively debate on public art that more modern works on the plinth have stimulated.

Some modern works on serpentine plants provided good examples of this edaphic specialization (reviewed in Brady et al. 2005).