Sentence examples for version of the ancient from inspiring English sources

"This is a modern version of the ancient tradition of gleaning," Katz said.

The quandary was an acutely stressful version of the ancient mutual fund issue of turnover.

For seven years, he refined his version of the ancient carrot to approximate what a contemporary customer would want.

Asian cooks use fish sauce -- a refined version of the ancient Roman sauce garum -- to intensify and season dishes.

He quickly turned his exile into a desirable condition — a version of the ancient Horatian ideal of escape from the corrupting city into a small enclosed country house.

The search for a theory of everything today is the latest version of the ancient Pythagorean quest for divine "cosmic harmonies".

The researchers therefore synthesised messengers corresponding to the various versions of the ancient gene, fed them to some ribosomes, and collected the proteins that came out.

The new version, a Lipchitz interpretation of the ancient Greek myth, was a bronze in which the figure of Prometheus, lunging forward like a boxer, exultantly grabs his nastily beaked tormentor by the throat.

"Here was a writer who could combine a delightful quote from Chaucer on the subject of pike galantine with a careful recipe for a modern chicken and pork version of the same ancient dish, and who could do so without pedantry or a hint of preciousness".

A Muslim man in Egypt can now end a marriage by saying, "I divorce thee," three times or, in a bureaucratic version of the same ancient Islamic custom, by filing a paper with a government registrar that declares he is divorcing his wife.

What makes this rejection of philosophical dialectic disturbing is Callicles' suggestion that Socrates' own positions are self-serving expressions of his commitment to his own way of life — a version of the plausible ancient Greek truism that each man naturally praises his own way of life as best.