But the Cherokee tribe is no stranger to using modern technology to keep their language alive.

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There are certainly people out there using modern technology on occasion without allowing themselves to get fully enveloped by it.

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"It's illustration but using modern technology, " says British poster designer Graham Humphreys.

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But they were also responding by using modern technology to amplify the mood music of Western belief that Arabs too could create free societies.

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Mr. Mellor said that a mass scale literacy drive is the need of the day, and using modern cellular technology can help us to achieve our goal very rapidly.

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The Crave brothers, Charles, George, Thomas and Mark, showed us some of the ways they are using modern sustainable technology to power their farm and make tasty cheese at the same time!

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This is a combination of sophisticated steerable drilling technology using modern micro-seismic imaging and advanced material sciences, to create webs of minuscule cracks in shale and release abundant trapped natural gas.

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"While match fixers use modern technology to carry out their activities, we are still using centuries-old laws and practices to fight this crime against the game of football and this makes us fall behind, " Mr. Noble told a conference in Kuala Lumpur on match-fixing.

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Federal investment also produced our modern computing and Internet system as well as advances in military technology that have curtailed the need for using large numbers of ground troops.

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