Our Post Modern Crisis

Political Ideas in the Romantic Age Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought , Chatto Windus, 2006.

It is not a manly modern Achilles who makes the best warrior leader in today s communication age.

The modern age is as religious as any previous historical period, and in some places more so.

Combating terrorism is also essential if the non polar era is not to turn into a modern Dark Age.

The age profiles of our societies are changing dramatically.

Modern measurements place this moment at approximately 13.8 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the universe.

The post modern realities of our grave present make a mockery of modernity.

Now, our 36,000 kilometers of coastline will be patrolled by more modern ships.

Our hectic modern day lifestyles often breed in us a spirit of impatience.

Indeed, our current predicament has all of the hallmarks of a post modern crisis.

In our globalized age, vast impersonal forces are supposed to determine events.

That is why the fight against AIDS may be the great challenge of our age and our generation.

In an age when decriminalization of libel is the trend, this law makes a fatal step back, toward the vault of archaic policies that cannot be made to apply to the modern man operating in a modern world.

But important things are created in our modern global financial system, both positive and negative.

The second great challenge is that our modern energy system is destabilizing the global climate.

But without entrepreneurs, few of the really bold innovations that have shaped our modern economy and our lives would be in place.

By limiting our reading to religious works and neglecting modern science, we destroyed Islamic civilization and lost our way in the world.

May 15th of this year is the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba which marked the beginning of the modern age Palestinian plight and suffering.

The new age of the electric vehicle exemplifies the powerful opportunities that we can grasp as we make our way from the unsustainable fossil fuel age to a new age of sustainable technologies.

Despite the prominence of early modern intellectual historians (those studying the age from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment), the intellectual history of the modern period has also been the locus of intense and creative output on both sides of the Atlantic.

It seemed to me that, yes, our modern sophisticated financial systems had created enormous macroeconomic risks.

This is the doctrine that Krugman argues is no longer sufficient for our age.

Mr. Baum (Switzerland) (spoke in French) The tragedy that struck South East Asia on 26 December 2004 was one of the worst of the modern age.

Satisfying it has become the great palliative of modern society, our counterfeit reward for working irrational hours.

Canada's commitment to modern oceans management is reflected in our Oceans Action Plan released in May 2005.

Our modern history has witnessed two horrible world wars that brought untold sorrow and suffering to humankind.

In his 1908 essay Der moderne Denkmalkultus (The modern cult of monuments) he describes historical value, artistic value, age value, commemorative value, use value, and newness value.

In our globalized age, we have lost the privilege and, paradoxically, the virtue of ignorance.

The upcoming summit will be a very important test of our Organization's credibility and of our ability to adapt it to modern and future challenges.

The click is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

But what makes for a great central bank governor in our modern societies, great institutions or great individuals?

And in order to introduce you to that, I've got something here that I'm going to unveil, which is one of the great marvels of the modern age.

When the history books get written, I think our age will be remembered for three things.

Los Angeles Tackling global warming, we are often told, is the defining task of our age.

But, far from being characterized by secularization, our age has witnessed vast eruptions of religious passion.

We still need modern medical equipment, though, and we ask our donors to give priority attention to this area.

PRINCETON What we are doing to our planet, to our children and grandchildren, and to the poor, by our heedless production of greenhouse gases, is one of the great moral wrongs of our age.

This yearning for providential men or women in our global age results from at least three factors.

And the greatest devils of our economic age lurk in the details of how officials regard the capital the equity funding of our largest banks.

And you know, our modern ways of doing things have their advantages, but I believe we should understand the costs.

Modern materials allow us to do modern things.

My husband and I have watched quite a few friends divide their assets and then struggle with being our age and single in an age of sexting and Viagra and eHarmony.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father

Savor it for a moment. Now consider this None of our modern human ancestors ever breathed anything like it and, the way things are going, nor will our descendants.