The latter-day problems of our society.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

This latter-day Harriet Tubman is working my last nerve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rep. Steve Cohen is 'trying to act black'? Really?] Reference

"Far ahead of most of these latter-day Southern novels.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos] Reference

Sharkey, 53, has become a kind of latter-day Frankenstein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard-Wired For Survival] Reference

Like many other things, they felt the influence of the latter-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

They're a marker of gentrification, a latter-day Starbucks of sorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raising the Bar: A Fine Time for Wine] Reference

The Colossus of Rhodes was a pigmy compared with this latter-day wonder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

Twelve o'clock had struck, indeed, as he had prophesied, for this latter-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Ace] Reference

Simplicity, warmth, and freedom are the essentials in latter-day baby clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

So this year I celebrate by imagining the Pioneer Day parade of my latter-day dreams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holly Welker: Latter-Day Saints and Modern-Day Pioneers] Reference

I respect Peter Case's latter-day recordings, but I love his work with The Plimsouls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plimsouls: Looking Back At A Band's Raucous Pop] Reference

That's the kind of latter-day defiance the governor and his friends are aiming to defeat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Discomfort] Reference

The air-ship promises, however, to eclipse the greatest and swiftest of latter-day steamers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Radiant] Reference

Rock critic Ken Tucker says this volume offers a fresh way to look at Dylan's latter-day career.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Tell-Tale Signs' Exposes Bob Dylan Bootlegs] Reference

There is plenty of grumbling that Jiang is setting himself up as some kind of latter-day emperor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palace Intrigues] Reference

HAVIGHURST: Another guest on the CD was latter-day country icon and preservationist Marty Stuart.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Late Lift for Country Legend Louvin] Reference

Today he still appeals to China's latter-day need to believe in a way that troubles his successors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apocalypse When] Reference

The praises of the Hôtel de l'Univers are many; they have been sung by most latter-day travellers from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

And suppose some latter-day Jefferson Davis, intent upon splitting up the country, won another 75 seats.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Yesterday's Man' Is Back] Reference

This latter-day version of constitutional triumphalism is both historically inaccurate and deeply flawed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Linda R. Monk, J.D.: The Constitution Is Not a Bumper Sticker] Reference

One of the most appealing: a medieval pork pie that is "much more interesting" than its latter-day incarnations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gastronomy] Reference

As his engaging book makes clear, the Romans had a genius for assimilation that latter-day Europeans can't match.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lessons of History] Reference

It has been a good year for latter-day admirers of Oliver Cromwell, the only successful antimonarchist in English history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monarchy Will Prevail] Reference

These latter were, each and all of them, wonders of artistic composition, compared with the hordes of latter-day pictures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

But, thanks to the robust, latter-day theory, that the best saints have the best bodies, this puerile class is diminishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

There has been in certain latter-day philosophies, a tendency to interpret the divine as the objectification of human ideals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

She is prone, some say, to formidable funks, and at times sounds less like a New Age prophet than a latter-day Leona Helmsley.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Miracle On Your Doorstep] Reference

There is no single worldwide criminal conspiracy, no board of directors of Crime International ready to take on a latter-day James Bond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Mafia] Reference

MOON: You hear that roar, that spare and un-retouched rhythm, and realize that's what's been missing from the latter-day Stones 'efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stones Defiant: 'A Bigger Bang'] Reference

Bremer made many mistakes in Iraq, some of which he may acknowledge in his forthcoming book on his experience as a latter-day MacArthur (he has just completed a draft).    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Cheers for Bremer] Reference

Meanwhile both sides are already playing the expectations game -- as two talented debaters poor-mouth their own skills while making the other out to be a latter-day Cicero.    From Wordnik.com.  [KERRY'S NEW CALL TO ARMS] Reference