Social worker Hannah Carr believes he would be up to facing the challenges of modern life.
Few aspects of modern life are not touched by the influence of a computer somewhere.
Scandals captivate our attention as sensational headlines punctuate the mundane din of modern life.
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Less noticed, but equally unsuited to the demands of modern life, is London's sewer system.
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None boast the myriad skills necessary to provide the conveniences of modern life: appliances, healthcare, technology, etc.
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One of the more obvious fallacies of modern life is that the future will be like the past.
And you can see the impact that this Data Gold Rush has had on every corner of modern life.
The sheer speed of modern life is transforming how we live and work.
The result is that we get a terribly distorted picture of modern life, and of modern childhood in particular.
This documentary, about the unanticipated results of a Facebook friendship, is an exemplary and surprising vision of modern life.
Reilly from "A Confederacy of Dunces, " whose disdain for all things contemporary highlights the virtues and vices of modern life.
"The pace of modern life is so fast that it is even snatching away the precious years of childhood, " she said.
There we have the perfect analogy to the paradox of modern life.
The reverential treatment accorded to climate modelers by the media, policymakers, and the public is one of the great mysteries of modern life.
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Then inmates had better stay silent, is one response: those who commit crimes must expect to forfeit access to the conveniences of modern life.
Many I spoke to in the last week regard attacks like the one at the Boston Marathon as a disgusting, horrific part of modern life.
Reagan unflinchingly supported the Federal Reserve's hard fight against inflation, and lo and behold we discovered this scourge was not an inevitable part of modern life.
To earlier generations, escaping the claustrophobic all-knowingness of a village for the relative anonymity of the city was one of the more liberating aspects of modern life.
Cathy Sandeen, the dean of the UCLA Extension, says that reaching people who need retraining has become more difficult because of the quick tempo of modern life.
The last gallery, called "Spaces of Modern Life, " is a culmination of all that came before it, a sort of Second Empire fugue state of themes expressed and interwoven.
The incorporation of dramatic allusions to aspects of modern life as well as to ethnic communities, groups and individuals has established the drama as a vivid example of cultural diversity.
In automating the process of making a call, phone companies removed a burdensome manual hindrance from what was soon to become a much more convenient and ubiquitous part of modern life.
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The people of Solcavsko have embraced some of the advances of modern life - fourwheel drives, wi-fi, and the euro among them - yet the conveniences of the food industry have left them cold.
So beer drinking was one of the things that reminded the Sumerians that they were different from the people of the past who hadn't had any of the trappings of modern life.
Cardinal Martini says the Church must face up to the problems of modern life, including such issues as sexuality, divorce, the celibacy of the priesthood, and the role of women in the Church.
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