The residents live the short lives of pre-modern people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: A Journey Across the Ground Zero of Global Warming] Reference

Something similar happened in the pre-modern Middle East.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iran, Islam and the Rule of Law] Reference

Britain rediscovers the delights of pre-modern bacchanalia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Britain rediscovers the delights of pre-modern bacchanalia] Reference

Israel is fighting a modern war with a pre-modern mindsight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Wright: Israel's Strategic Blunder] Reference

"Britain rediscovers the delights of pre-modern bacchanalia ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Dr Williams himself accepts its principles are pre-modern and oppressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Archbishop's speech] Reference

Britain rediscovers the delights of pre-modern bacchanalia | The Spectator.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Nor indeed was an 'hour' in pre-modern Japan the same as one of our hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sekidera Komachi] Reference

But its aims are - to us almost unimaginably - pre-modern and fundamentalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia and the Threat of Global Terrorism - A Test of Resolve] Reference

General view of pre-modern Middle Eastern women and their move into modernity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genizah.] Reference

Far from seeing him as a pre-modern relic, they relished his postmodern idiosyncrasy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noblesse oblige (Prospect)] Reference

Blacksmiths and chariot makers in the pre-modern age, big weapons corporations today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suicide Bombing; OEN Exclusive On-Site Witness Report of Attack on Peshawar Press] Reference

Now obedience as a theological virtue sounds very alarming, very pre-modern, very unattractive.    From Wordnik.com.  [CEFACS lecture, Birmingham] Reference

In the pre-modern view, as a human being you were capable, unlike other creatures, of knowing who you were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archbishop explores 'reason' in New Scientist] Reference

They seek to impose their will and bleak fundamentalist, pre-modern world view by whichever means they can.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexander Downer - Speech to the Bali Process Senior Officials��� Meeting] Reference

While true, he seems to brush over the fact that pre-modern societies had many alternative avenues, as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Merritt: Will Atheism Replace Religion in America?] Reference

The later White House claim that global warming has health benefits is a perfectly pre-modern panglossian remark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mukasey and Digby Give Postmodernism a Bad Name] Reference

Western Europe and North America, while pre-modern states are those of the developing world and "all over Africa".    From Wordnik.com.  [Inaugural lecture of the Parliamentary Millennium Project] Reference

No, not everyone can afford box seats at the Met, but compared to the pre-modern period, the access is indeed mass.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Weinberger: Andrew Keen's Best Case] Reference

This is the distinction between the pre-modern and the modern period (roughly from the mid-eighteenth century onward).    From Wordnik.com.  [Biblical Women in World and Hebrew Literature.] Reference

It is an order better adapted to the pre-modern world - one in which notions like economic liberty count for next to nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexander Downer - Speech to launch the White Paper on International Terrorism] Reference

The world system today overlays an emergent planetary dynamism onto modern, pre-modern and even remnants of Stone Age culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Transition~ Where Are We] Reference

Others would be his philosophy of interpretation and his conception of the relationship between pre-modern and modern thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg [Novalis]] Reference

Homosexuality is not some unnatural intrusion, wrought by demonic perverts, as the pre-modern religious texts so absurdly assert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: Homophobic? Then You're Probably Gay] Reference

Caught in an age-old religious and tribal war, the Sunnis and Shiites are better suited for dispensing hasty, pre-modern justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Katovsky: Saddam is Damned for Eternity] Reference

Anyone looking for some humor, go find articles Penn and company wrote about Presidential race pre-Iowa, pre-Obama, pre-modern era.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Obama Up 15 Points In North Carolina] Reference

He tied Christianity to nostalgia for the pre-modern world harming its ability to renew itself in the context of political modernity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A matter of faith] Reference

Cultural diffusion has also alerted pre-modern communities (and their national governments) to the socio-economic burden of high fertility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human population explosion] Reference

Gotama subscribed to what has been called the “perennial philosophy,” because it was common to all peoples in all cultures in the pre-modern world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buddha]

Conversation itself shuts down, opening up the door for the return of a pre-modern form of politics antithetical to the free and open exchange of ideas through words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeffrey Feldman: Right-Wing Pushes Violent Rhetoric To Frame Election] Reference

But, especially in traditional (i.e., pre-modern) settings, children are also economic assets: a ready source of capital and security when alternatives are out of reach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human population explosion] Reference

Political authority is religious authority in the pre-modern context; modernity may have turned savagely against Christianity, but it would not be what it is without it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forum debate: Is Europe at its End?] Reference

Yes, Christianity is a revolutionary creed, attractive to young idealists, but when they see that its main institutions are complacently pre-modern, the attraction fades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex is just a symptom] Reference