For the former, the debate is over the perversion of Shariah and its pre-modern ethic and economic principles.
Merchant power waxed and waned throughout most of the pre-modern period, always dependent on protection from the warrior caste.
Fundamentally, Alaska is a pre-modern welfare state, where the economy is almost purely extractive (with the exception of defence and tourism).
Anyone who has flown in or out of those terminals knows that they are hardly models of efficiency, and one reason is the pre-modern U.S. traffic control system.
But despite the efforts of today's "locavores" (who eat only locally produced foods), the pre-modern world of Babe the pig frolicking about the family farm is long gone.
Derek Bickerton, a linguist at the University of Hawaii, argues that if pre-modern humans had had language, this would have given them the ability to share complex information, and to co-operate in sophisticated ways.
In pre-modern China, emperors demonstrated their dominance by re-creating rival territories within their own: Sprawling imperial parks, which featured flora and fauna assembled from remote lands, buttressed rulers' authority by showing their ability to both create and possess an elaborate facsimile of the known universe.
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In addition, UNESCO established and equipped a modern pre-press centre and a Textbooks and CDs Library at the Ministry of Education in Baghdad.
If there is one idea that has been pre-eminent in the modern world, it is that every child should have the opportunity through schooling to rise as far as their talents can take them.
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He said it is commonly thought that if modern humans could emulate pre-industrial or even pre-agricultural lifestyles, that atherosclerosis would be avoided.
After extended negotiations with the local government, the Lindens were afforded a 40-year lease on an intact pre-revolutionary property, which now boasts modern amenities and 14 guest rooms decorated with furniture made by local artisans.
Just as Activision and EA ride the wave of positive buzz from the unveiling of Battlefield 3 at GDC and Modern Warfare 3 at pre-E3, these companies must contend with these same passionate fans when they believe the wool is being pulled over their eyes.
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These fossils show that these ancient, pre-Nicklausian men, though shorter and thinner than modern linksmen, all possess the same hitch in their backswing that most golfers still do.
Moreover, modern car assembly relies heavily on pre-assembly of parts such as entire dash boards with the stereo, the instrument panel and the steering column already built in.
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Carbon dioxide emissions come from energy use, and energy is the key factor that makes modern economies so much more productive than pre-industrial societies.
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" No pre-1945 works were included in the 1961 Museum of Modern Art retrospective exhibition, curated jointly by Peter Selz and Rothko, thus making "the public statement that his mature work originated in 1945.
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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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His suggestion would be to reconsider some of the previously discarded options, with preference towards more modern thermal treatment processes, or systems of pre-treating the waste and creating fuel from it.
But even putting aside the fact that pre-war America is one of the richest settings of the modern era, in terms of potential for rich narrative, this book just feels more like fantasy than historical fiction.
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Dan Fodio, an ethnic Fulani Islamic scholar, rose up against the Hausa rulers of what is now northern Nigeria and Niger and created an empire which stretched from modern-day Burkina Faso to Cameroon, becoming one of Africa's largest pre-colonial states.
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