Then, as now, some colleagues and clients found Stone's affectations tiresome, at best.
Some Science students, then as now, were probably just clever test takers.
(I purchased some hair scissors; then, as now, I cut it myself).
And, as now, some bishops, dismissive of the laity, underestimated the loyalty secular Catholics felt for their nuns.
Then, as now, some party elders worried that his tone was too sharp for a national spokesman, and then, as now, they tried to stop him.
By the eve of World War I, the world was in some ways as connected as now.
Then as now, some suspect the US is sacrificing a truthful description of the war to avoid pressure to escalate.
Still, then as now, "some artists were admired and well known, while others labored in obscurity," he said.
The rise of Ukrainian national feeling (partially encouraged by Austria-Hungary) was a lethal threat to Russian identity; much the same as now, some would say.
Then, as now, some of the president's aides urged a pre-emptive strike and invasion, while others counseled diplomatic isolation backed by the threat of force.
