Sentence examples for move of modern from inspiring English sources

This was the great innovation of the Physiocrats, taken over by Smith, and it might be considered the founding move of modern economics.

Morgenbesser said it appears to be a "classic move" of modern dictators.

Writing before the discovery of Ambulocetus, Fish predicted that the swimming mode of modern cetaceans (moving the fluke through the water in the dorsoventral plane) was preceded by a swimming mode that included dorsoventral sweeps of the feet aided by a long tail, similar to otters.

In all honesty this is a moving exhibition of modern dance, not least of all because of the undimmed technique of a courageous 50-year-old woman in her swansong.

The Return, by Victoria Hislop (Review, £17.99) Shifting the formula of her debut The Island from Greece to Spain, Hislop wraps another British innocent-abroad envelope around a meaty – and moving – slice of modern history.

Maya Lin's memorial to the American casualties in Vietnam, in Washington DC (widely agreed to be one of the most eloquent and moving memorials of modern times) is – for its impact – relatively small.

In contrast to the quick editing and moving cameras of modern action films, The Winter Soldier aimed to feature longer action scenes that felt more visceral and dangerous.

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As computer centers in Lower Manhattan and New Jersey shut down or went to emergency operations after power failures and water damage Monday night, companies scrambled to move the engines of modern communication to other parts of the country.

Farther along the embankment, floodwaters were already filling the basement of the Kampa Museum, and curators worked feverishly through the morning to move their collection of modern art to higher floors.

Quentin Hardy and Jenna Wortham of The New York Times report that as computer centers in Lower Manhattan and New Jersey shut down or went to emergency operations after power failures and water damage on Monday night, companies scrambled to move the engines of modern communication to other parts of the country.