Sentence examples for of modern progress from inspiring English sources

It is parable of modern progress.

Leaving the hyperbole aside, artificial illumination has arguably been the greatest symbol of modern progress.

Mr. Tice's mission is a form of historic preservation, a resistance to the mindless steamroller of modern progress.

Ethel is a former lady's maid with middle-class pretensions, while Ernest, five years her junior, is a left-leaning advocate of modern progress and technology.

His name was Mao Zedong, and his uneducated infatuation with the signs and symbols of modern progress — gigantic projects and economic statistics — caused a famine that dwarfed even the Incredible Famine.

If Slow Living is to thrive, it will need positive activists to stop the juggernaut of modern progress - though the Slow Food movement is already dynamic in its denunciation of the use of pesticides in farming.

The first Indonesian novels also appeared in the 1920s and '30s; these were typical regional works by Abdul Muis and others in which the central theme is the struggle between the generations, between the stifling burden of traditionalism and the impulse for modern progress.

Railroads figured prominently in these images: their bridges, tracks, engines and depots were once symbols of the modern progress of the nation but had now assumed a darker, more complex position: at once a tool of destruction and literally the lifeline of the Union.

The twenty-two footallll bell shaped pagoda is comprised of salvaged brick collected from demolition sites surrounding Shanghai (centuries old buildings that have been bulldozed in place of modern architectural progress).

But, before the advent of modern science, medical progress often proceeded on the basis of inference rather than evidence.

We want to keep the best of our traditions, yet we must come to terms with the changes that the good things of modern life and progress can bring.