In more modern times, oil and the central treasury knit the place together, often in terror, but kept it together nonetheless.
In more modern times, Walmart, long thought of as the bastion of the return-profits-to-shareholder-capitalism mentality, is now a clear leader in environmental sustainability.
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In more modern times, the Fastnet Race, a 615-mile dash from England to Ireland and back, brings some of the world's fastest sailing vessels hurtling around the rock each year.
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Once that happened, a slave-holder could be prosecuted for a range of offences including false imprisonment, assault and, in more modern times, for breaching specific employment regulations such as health and safety.
With the exception of Jimmy Carter, no American president in modern times has had a more routine aversion to organized hostilities than Barack Obama.
For a man accused of the largest leak of official secrets in modern times, the location could hardly be more apt.
But in modern times, inheriting an old house often is more trouble than it's worth.
In the history of modern times, the United States has done more than anyone else, perhaps more than the rest of the world combined, to defeat evil, and we are still doing it.
The big culprit there is the Missile Defense Agency, which relative to its size has probably wasted more money on canceled technology projects than any other federal organization in modern times.
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Coal mines at that time were thought to be 10 times more dangerous than modern pits, and miners had a one in seven chance of injury.
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In modern times, the hook is becoming less important as commercial fishing ventures rely more and more upon massive nets, although certain industrial fishing techniques--such as longline fishing--still depend on the humble hook.
England, he accepted, naturally had a sentimental attachment to its footballing history, which dated back to medieval times, but the reality was that players in the modern game were getting ever more accomplished.
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