Never before has mankind had at its disposal such scientific and technological progress and such a significant cultural heritage to guarantee a life in dignity.

Travelling is easy these days.

Prices are high these days.

I remember those days vividly.

Muiriel likes to annoy me lately.

These days, this idea is seriously being questioned.

They tried every medication available in those days.

No, totalitarianism comes wrapped in cuteness these days.

These days, we need to find the answers to urgent questions.

And these days it seems their work just doesn't stop.

International migration is on the increase today.

Even Helen Mirren can hold a gun these days.

Those days now seem like another age.

But the good times may be ending.

We do not hear much about Syria these days.

We are reminded of the horrors of terrorism so often these days.

Nowadays this idea has a dramatic name Spaceship Earth.

These locations are generally not as well protected as nuclear facilities.

Walakum us Salam, Al Sayib! Dima replied. What are you up to these days?

We have heard many such stories in recent days.

Positive stories from Niger are a few and far between these days.

At this difficult time, we affirm our solidarity towards our Jordanian friends.

Easing those fears is big concern in the US these days.

The condition of the world economy nowadays is very strange.

But in East Timor, that rainy day is now.

I want to write about suffering of my people and my family in these days.

I reiterate that these days of Shahbag will be part of history.

But even if it were, rocket science is being done by dedicated amateurs these days. You know?

We can see clear examples of that today.

These are the key ingredients in the nationalist stew that seems to appeal to Russians nowadays.

The first days of the conflict in Georgia crushed this hypothesis.

There is much talk these days about the Euro Atlantic security architecture.

In practice, however, the term is only rarely found in English by this date.

There's been a lot of talk about dreams over the course of this few days.

And of course, in those days, there were no antidepressant drugs, and it became very, very popular.

There was a post office on this corner once.

The world is a study in contrasts nowadays. We are haunted by images of terror and warfare.

One area of concern for civil society nowadays is the press and new media.

These observers proved right the crisis was marked by soaring risk premia.

Similar stories have recently been dominating the news and discussions in the blogosphere.

This capacity remains attractive whenever a crisis strikes.

So why are such theories gaining adherents in the US and other affluent democracies nowadays?

With the crucial exception of energy rich Azerbaijan, they have few natural resources or high value manufactures, and have large agricultural sectors.

Walakum us Salam, Al Sayib! Dima replied, but raised the volume on his phone this time, so as to avoid making this a duplicate sentence. What are you up to these days?

These days, however, Europeans have little reason to feel smug.