Or is producing a luxury watch fit some modern form of luxury stepping stone that brands feel they need to achieve to.
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Here local lad Rui Paula combines childhood memories with his gourmet training to reproduce hearty dishes in a lighter, more modern form.
England and France, the two dominant nation-states for most of the continent's history, came into being in more or less their modern form.
In 1970 Carlsberg merged with Tuborg, and the foundation took its modern form, which includes a legal requirement to hold at least 51% of Carlsberg's shares.
Neither the Kingdom of Belgium, once it became independent, nor the Scandinavian monarchies that took their modern form in a similar era, chose to have coronation ceremonies.
But it is far from clear that in embracing this very modern form of freedom, libertarians are being true to the timeless verities embodied in America's founding documents.
We're supporting organizations that rescue the victims, passing stronger anti-trafficking laws and warning travelers that they will be held to account for supporting this modern form of slavery.
The modern form is said to have been introduced to Britain by soldiers who had drunk it in Holland during the Eighty Years' War (hence the expression "Dutch Courage").
Citing the slate's "minimalist, modern form, " presiding judge Johanna Brueckner-Hoffmann determined that Samsung's tablet bears a "clear impression of similarity" with the iPad 2, thereby meriting a nationwide ban.
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"You can argue that the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) in use today are a modern form of cosmography as they combine geography and astronomy to give users precise locations, " said the doctor.
Mr Carr-Gomm is a self-professed Druid and a practitioner of Wicca (a modern form of paganism that can involve a lot of larking around naked) and enjoys stripping off his clothes during country walks.
Arthur Och Sulzberger, who led The New York Times Co. through three decades of turbulent change and established the blueprint for the modern form of the company, died Saturday following a long illness.
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Another theory of the origin of modern humans, known as the multiregional hypothesis, holds that earlier forms of humans originated in Africa and then slowly developed their anatomically modern form in every area of the Old World.
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It is a fitting tribute to an old technology that handheld clockwork devices, which were used long ago by sailors to find their positions at sea, could now, in a modern form, do the job once again.
The majority of those medals will be given in sports that originated, in their modern form, in Britain: archery, athletics (track and field), boxing, badminton, field hockey, football (soccer), rowing, sailing, swimming, water polo, table tennis, and tennis.
They took the view that Mr Diamond, who was credited with creating the sprawling modern form of Barclays - global, huge on Wall Street - was probably the safest pair of hands to steer it away from accidents, in the absence of an obvious successor.
It was founded in 1837 and took its modern daily form in 1962 when it was acquired by Newhouse.
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The series proved a ratings juggernaut for the network--28.2 million viewers tuned in for the first season--and pioneered the modern reality form and the product placement opportunities that came with it.
From a very modern art form to a classical one now, and a site which offers us a unique insight into the work of one of the most famous artists of all time.
But it does involve a man and a woman on the road together and a modern-day form of robbery using online scams and bogus bank accounts.
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He added he aimed for the "modern songs" to form a new LP which will be finished within the next few months.
The tailors who still work in and around London's Savile Row are experts at disentangling the military, medical and sporting threads that form the modern suit.
Mr Kelly points out that apart from a modern intrusion in the form of Harry Potter, the top 10 is dominated by the literary canon in the shape of the Brontes, Orwell and Tolkien.
It's a reference to the pre-World War II forerunners of a corporate form whose modern iterations are better known as keiretsu, those vertically integrated manufacturing and trading cartels that gave Japan Inc. its fearsome reputation in the 1980s.
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Think of the old rule of thumb to subtract your age from 100 and invest that percentage in stocks or of the modern version in the form of target date retirement funds that start aggressive and become more conservative as you get closer to retirement.
Yet in a sense, the technology pioneered by Samuel Morse has been reborn with a modern twist, in the form of text messages sent between mobile phones.
"Short form communication is defining modern culture, and every phone number-wireless or wired-should be able to support the text medium, " said John Lauer, CEO of Zipwhip.
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"Bruges-La-Morte" is thoroughly modern in tone, theme and form.
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