And that contribution to America by Ireland is a continuing one, one that we have to find and give modern expression to all the time.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and Taoiseach Cowen

Thus, while Christian teaching draws deeply on the mysticism in the religion of Israel, the modern expression of Judaism has been influenced by patterns of thought which come from the secular or post-Christian West.

ECONOMIST: Christians and Jews

Tribe of One are world-class performers who fuse the rich heritage of indigenous cultures with modern forms of artistic expression.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

The modern variant of this expression substitutes half trillions for billions.

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Freedom of assembly and freedom of expression are also characteristics of a modern political system that supports economic modernization.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

This ill-motivated and superficial attack on 20th-century philosophy contains a nice expression of the lasting intellectual difficulty the church faces in the modern world: the statements, one paragraph apart, that the church has no philosophy of its own but that modern philosophy has fallen into error.

ECONOMIST: The Roman Catholic church

They crave the sense of connection, the inherently communal experience, of hearing real people breathe life into centuries-old compositions: the venerated composers, modern-day musicians and generations of music-lovers, all united in the expression of raw human emotion through art.

WHITEHOUSE: The Ambition to Inspire All

Modern German dance, as heralded by Laban and Wigman, has veered towards self-expression and subjectivity.

ECONOMIST: Germany is now the dance centre of the world

Unlike earlier philosophers and idealists, who believed that their languages could perfect humanity, modern conlangers tend to create their languages primarily as a hobby and a form of self-expression.

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