However, in the present-day context, it is very selective. From Wordnik.com. [David A. Love: Too Ignorant To Articulate Their Own Ideas] Reference
The present-day movement will probably prove longer-lived. From Wordnik.com. [Having A Riot] Reference
By the end of the week, David Boies was hailed as a present-day Perry Mason. From Wordnik.com. [A Window On Their World] Reference
Things stay at a level of innocence startling for a present-day vampire story. From Wordnik.com. [Two Ladies: Are You Team Bella, Or Team Lisbeth?] Reference
It feeds present-day racism and white privilege, and undermines black self-esteem. From Wordnik.com. [Black History Is Sometimes a Conspicuous Omission] Reference
When we look at present-day Japan, Ozawa's ideas are considered middle of the road. From Wordnik.com. [Interview: 'Nothing Has Been Solved'] Reference
The Portuguese had explored the African coast as far south as present-day Sierra Leone by. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
A present-day literary manager would insist that a playwright tell us how such a change occurred. From Wordnik.com. [Today’s Man] Reference
They also suspect present-day oceans may be sloshing under the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. From Wordnik.com. [What's Next For The Final Frontier?] Reference
His new character, Raylen Givens, is a present-day U.S. marshal, but he's wild, wild West all the way. From Wordnik.com. [A 'Justified' Outing For A Loose-Cannon Lawman] Reference
"This exhibition is not about present-day personalities and egos," says a representative of the Locsin family. From Wordnik.com. [Going for the Gold] Reference
Eliminating these present-day threats outweighs any benefits we might gain from retaining our nuclear arsenal. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Zero] Reference
Judging by what I saw on stage, I'd say a major Spanish play has got lost in translation to present-day Pakistan. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Bilquis Bibi] Reference
By the time Mr. Catloth retired in 1998, after 61 years, he was operating a computer at the present-day FedEx Field. From Wordnik.com. [George E. Catloth, 91, was sports lover and Redskins' scorekeeper for 61 years] Reference
For the most part, our present-day mainstream LGBT leaders repeatedly fail to take on the present-day Anita Bryants. From Wordnik.com. [Andy Thayer: Why We Are Protesting Against "Americans For Truth About Homosexuality"] Reference
The parallelswith present-day trafficking seem depressingly clear, but Arnold leavesher readers to make theconnection. From Wordnik.com. [City of Sin: London and its Vices by Catharine Arnold] Reference
Commodore Matthew Perry fired on the port of Uraga, near present-day Tokyo, to force the opening of trade with America. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Weller: Madame Butterfly: A Journey] Reference
It's also an evocation of how destructive the past can be, how destructive the family can be, to our present-day lives. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Blankenship: True Blood Sucker Punch: Season 3, Ep. 6] Reference
This darker side of what the Romantics saw in America gives the Schirn exhibit a powerful connection to the present-day. From Wordnik.com. [Cowboys and Indians] Reference
The fiercely energetic Thom Sesma plays Ahrab in makeup that evokes both the present-day Dylan and Christopher Lee's Dracula. From Wordnik.com. [Positively Broadway] Reference
He notes that present-day leftists are unlikely to quote Whitman, who called this nation "" essentially the greatest poem. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Still Waiting For Lefty] Reference
In the film, prominent artists use their art to address healing from the present-day residuals of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. From Wordnik.com. [Black History Is Sometimes a Conspicuous Omission] Reference
But unlike those Wise Men, or present-day figures like former Clinton Treasury secretary Robert Rubin, he has never held a public job. From Wordnik.com. [Taxing the Super Rich] Reference
Echoes of Earth, Wind and Fire ricochet off Philadelphia soul, gospel and Stevie Wonder, all of it filtered to a present-day sensibility. From Wordnik.com. [Singer Discusses Album, the Influence of Legends] Reference
What is the logic behind what one present-day U.S. diplomat in Moscow not authorized to speak on the record calls "Kremlin bipolar disorder"?. From Wordnik.com. [The World According to Russia] Reference
In fact, he might be speaking directly to present-day moderates whose exhortation to "Wait" is based in a belief in the inevitability of justice. From Wordnik.com. [Terrance Heath: Three Questions, Pt 1.: Can We?] Reference
Has he ever seen Chile outside of brief stays at Santiago's five-star hotels, or spoken to Chileans not associated with the present-day political elite?. From Wordnik.com. [Silvio's Swan Song] Reference
Still, this does not detract from the present-day appeal of his painting and sculpture — his tense, muscular figures have an immediate, visceral impact. From Wordnik.com. [Michelangelo,] Reference
Jupiter is interesting for other reasons, too: New theories suggest it moved billions of miles across the solar system before reaching its present-day orbit. From Wordnik.com. [What's Next For The Final Frontier?] Reference
Tilda Swinton stars as Emma, the Russian-born wife of Tancredo Recchi, the scion of a present-day Milanese dynasty that has made a fortune in the textiles business. From Wordnik.com. ['I Am Love': A 'Madame Bovary' For Our Century] Reference
RACHEL MARTIN, host: If we're lucky, our mind occupies a lot of places at once; our present-day reality, our painfully or happily remembered past, and our hopeful future. From Wordnik.com. ['Memory Wall': Short Stories At All Points In Time] Reference
According to eyewitnesses, the three littlest Donner girls spent weeks at Sutter's Fort in present-day Sacramento, their eyes on the mountains, crying: If mother would only come. From Wordnik.com. [Tamsen Donner: Pioneer Dame Of The Donner Party] Reference
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