Sentence examples for modified in modern from inspiring English sources

Quarantine is much modified in modern practice because of the better understanding of infectious disease.

Quarantine is much modified in modern practice because of the better understanding of communicable disease.

The Lingayats' earlier overthrow of caste distinctions has been modified in modern times, but the sect continues to be strongly anti-Brahmanical and opposed to worship of any image other than the lingam.

De vita Caesarum, which treats Julius Caesar and the emperors up to Domitian, is largely responsible for that vivid picture of Roman society and its leaders, morally and politically decadent, that dominated historical thought until modified in modern times by the discovery of nonliterary evidence.

Nor are all trusses triangular, since the principle may be modified (as in modern steel and heavy timber construction) to apply to arches and vaults if chords of sufficient strength can be found.

He writes often about the role of GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, in modern society.

The alignment of Route 14 through Bloomfield was modified in 1921 to use modern NY 64 instead.

Simple stencil designs reduced the cost of producing playing cards in France, and the French designs were lightly modified in England to produce the modern, or international, suitmarks.

The tests were conducted on a single cylinder research engine provided with a modern architecture and properly modified in a dual-fuel (DF) configuration.

Modern gelatin preparations are chemically modified in various ways to reduce viscosity while maintaining their oncotic effect.

Since the bony structure and musculature was modified in this way it has remained essentially unchanged, and modern crocodilians vary little from their ancestors in this respect.