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.
One of the great injustices of modern times was the failure of the Senate to confirm Robert Bork for the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile Firas Ahmad, a columnist who co-edits a glossy Muslim monthly from his home in Boston, maintains that a lot of Islamic history as well as the dilemmas of modern times should be reconsidered in the light of the robust separation between religion and state which (on his reading, at least), Muslims have quite frequently, and cheerfully, maintained.
The reason why, unfortunately, is that it may signal the end of the road for one of the greatest technological achievements of modern times, the U.S. human spaceflight program.
Yet the Vatican still appears to lack a coherent strategy to cope with an escalating crisis that is perceived by outside observers as one of the most grave to have hit the Catholic Church in modern times, but that the Pope himself refuses to address in public except in the most general terms.
This would be the first major war theater in modern times that the U.S. departed without leaving behind any presence.
This was the first conclave in modern times not to be preceded by the death of a pope.
The worse offenders of property rights in modern times is the Communists and they were atheists.
For a man accused of the largest leak of official secrets in modern times, the location could hardly be more apt.
The first recorded sightings of modern times date back to the early 1950s, when a large black feline dubbed the Surrey Puma was spotted prowling through the countryside near Farnham.
Only Phil Chisnall in 1964 has travelled the route in modern times.
Although everything that matters in Milan is within walking distance, no one had ever dared open a high-end restaurant in the area in modern times.
Save the Kennedys of Massachusetts no clan has dominated the political life of a major state in modern times than the Browns of California.
The attack on Halabja on 16 March 1988 was the most notorious act of chemical warfare in modern times, the BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad says.
The time slot was terrible (Friday nights), it had no major stars attached to it and the premise -- Grimm fairy tales set in modern times around the banner of a police procedural -- sounds like it could be the cheesiest thing ever.
Her writing is at its best when it is honest and vulnerable rather than hectoring and prescriptive: when she admits, for example, that even she feels the loneliness of modern society at times, and yearns for the sense of belonging that life in the clan however cruel and dysfunctional can still provide.
That is three times as long as the Earth has existed and about 100, 000 times the lifespan of modern humanity as a species.
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In fact, the country that survived the biggest worldwide credit crisis in modern times is growing less than the U.S, the economy that basically started the crisis in the first place.
If a full-fledged media blackout isn't feasible, then at least limit yourself to the stations that are least likely to air anything having to do with modern times: the radio stations that play big band music and old-timey radio programs.
Fueling the hype is the fact that "Avatar" is Cameron's first film since "Titanic" in 1997 -- the most successful film of modern times -- and a return to sci-fi for the "Aliens" and "Terminator" series director.
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An attorney in search of the actual presentation of Shariah as an extant and authoritative basis for law in modern times has the opportunity to examine several Muslim regimes which have implemented Shariah as the law of the land.
The Highland Historic Environment Record holds records on thousands of historical sites dating from prehistoric times to the modern day.
She was described by Pope Pius X as "the greatest saint of modern times".
In modern times the brainy left provided most of the mental opposition up to the 1960s or so.
But in modern times the Olympic truce has been honored and the breach.
What needs explaining is the following: in modern times, up until 1950 Glasgow did not stand out as particularly sickly.
His intellectual legacy includes three encyclicals long, densely argued papal statements that make unfashionable assertions about the some of the big concerns of modern times.
The simultaneous arrest of almost all the Templars in France on a single day in 1306 was a spectacular exhibition of governmental power on a par with the police states of modern times.
One, we as audiences can be drawn into the story of someone closer to modern times, and explore his obsession as well as the ridicule he receives in pursuing this tale from history.
On the closing track of his new album Modern Times, Bob Dylan casts himself as the prototypical stranger who's just passing through.
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