A long, sleek one for the Mediterranean...

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Mosque or Modernity?

Did Humans Invent Modernity?

He's shabby now, but he was sleek and wellnourished.

Walruses adapted with layers of fat. Sea lions got sleek.

Sleek, quick to the helm, everything a boat should be.

It's Eisenhower bringing modernity into the countries.

The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.

The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.

It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology.

Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.

and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,

Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.

and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,

This negation is connected with the complex and paradoxical nature of the concept of modernity.

Algeria was committed to progress, modernity and the full enjoyment by women of their rights.

In the medium term, modernity is indivisible you can have all of it or none. The deep technological and social changes unleashed by the forces of modernity create tensions that, in the end, cannot be resolved without appropriate normative and institutional responses.

When a guy who looks like that, in that hat, is the face of modernity, you have a problem.

That initiative reflects Morocco's willingness to create a development model based on a successful association of modernity, democratization and economic openness.

Those people are not even aware of the existence of the United Nations, but they are fully entitled to the benefits of modernity.

Indonesia and Turkey  to name just two are both striking examples of how countries with predominantly Muslim populations can embrace democracy and modernity.

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So bread has become from a main staple, a source of calories associated with obesity and also a source of modernity, of modern life.

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

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They, too, would like life, pragmatism, creativity, and even joy to gain the upper hand. They, too, want moderation and modernity, if perhaps not full secularization, to prevail.

Nationalism implied a specific image of society and reality in general a consciousness that was to become the cultural framework of modernity. In its original, English, form it was essentially democratic.

You know, you look at sharks, and they're streamlined, and they're sleek, and you look at tuna, and they're like torpedoes they just give away their agenda. They're about migration and strength, and then you look at the sunfish.

Terrorist attacks are a violation of human rights, which are the foundation of modern societies they represent an assault on the very essence of those societies and thus negate their very modernity.

Women, of course, are not alone in their opposition to Berlusconi, but they made the difference in Milan. They are the incarnation of modernity, animated by a yearning for simple dignity and respect.

You go to the stereo store, you see two sets of speakers these big, boxy, monoliths, and these little, sleek speakers, and you play them, and you go, you know, I do hear a difference the big ones sound a little better.

The sleek footbridge swayed unexpectedly and excessively under the feet of pedestrians, and it was deemed too dangerous to use. What should have been a mere extension of the millennia old art of building pedestrian bridges, proved to be a modern engineering embarrassment.

That seemed really like a crisis to me, that they had never been able to develop a vocabulary about escape, and about travel, and modernity in this trailer that was consistent with the shell.

They successfully reconciled Islamic politics with the Turkish lifestyle and modernity in general. Cleverly, they positioned the party as conservative rather than Islamist a process aided by the corruption, bickering, and incompetence of the existing parties.

This has led to a common understanding of our situation, namely that modernity has brought us terrible violence, and perhaps that native peoples lived in a state of harmony that we have departed from, to our peril.

I once had occasion to watch these men as they trooped in and out of first class hotels in an Asian capital, sleek figures in gold buttoned blazers. It was striking to see how often the most prosperous looking representatives came from the world s poorest countries.

SINGAPORE The election of a new pope always sparks debate about the tension between tradition and modernity in the Catholic Church. Perhaps more interesting is the ongoing modernization of the language in which those debates are conducted Latin.

The strident and damaging dogmatism of fundamentalists of every stripe has a common feature a truculent sense of grievance, rooted in fear and resentment of modernity. Christian fundamentalism in America harks back to nineteenth century populism and anti intellectualism.

But, make no mistake about it, religion is a kind of fault line, and when a conflict gets ingrained in a region, religion can get sucked in and become part of the problem. Our modernity has been exceedingly violent.

The resurgence of Islamism is essentially a quest for a fulfilling identity by an ancient civilization overwhelmed by the challenges of modernity. And Israel s emphasis on its Jewish identity has become a formidable obstacle to peace with the Palestinians.

That is why it is imperative to call for a serious and urgent dialogue between North and South, for rapid and eased transfer of technological advances and capital, and for bolstering the development of those nations that seek modernity.

They're saving us by redefining and re imagining a future that defies and blurs accepted polarities, polarities we've taken for granted for a long time, like the ones between modernity and tradition, First World and Third World, oppression and opportunity.