What is "modern-day"

Usage examples of "modern-day".

If some modern-day freelance Danite was behind all this, Robin Torr wanted nothing to do with it.

The length the two men calculated for the circumference of the earth differs from modern-day satellite surveys by less than eight pages of this book.

Katherine Neville has created a dazzling puzzle of a book, a novel that follows the twin attempts of the nun Mireille and her modern-day counterpart Cat Velis as they try to trace the invaluable pieces of the Montglane Service.

A ranger might not have to fight Indians or Mexican guerrillas, but since Texas had plenty of ranchland left, a ranger had to be a skilled horseman in case he was called upon to track down modern-day rustlers.

Caught up in its inspiring account of conquest and glory, the young boy flipped the pages eagerly, temporarily abandoning modern-day Chandigarh for the bloodstained battlefields of ancient Greece and Persia.

Even as modern-day Miami puts on its glossy birthday face, it continues to revel in a checkered history full of rogues, hustlers and blowhards.

The alliance led to a confrontation in which the deceit and scheming of the Jevlenese was exposed, revealing the network of infiltrators by which they had endeavored to subvert modern-day Earth after the attempts to block its technological advancement failed.

All modern-day sorcerers have to struggle fiercely to gain soundness of mind.

In the far distance, a haze of lights, the dust of modern-day traffic rising like a red algal growth along the fringe of congestion.

They've done a fantastic job with lost prehistoric tribes like the Kreen-Ak-arore and other Stone Age people who are being discovered as modern-day roads begin to penetrate the interior of the Amazon jungle.

The ancestors of modern-day spectators had gathered here for hundreds of years, ever since the great city of Skokosas had been founded by the Pandur Mwu-Umool IV at the height of the Guluu Dynasty, blessings be unto its buddings.

I had my own catchphrase for solving many modern-day mysteries -- cherchez l' argent.

In order to appreciate the position of dreamers and dreaming , one has to understand the struggle of modern-day sorcerers to steer sorcery away from concreteness toward the abstract.

Wright had more than once seen Parker and Libby locked in steamy em­brace in the woods beyond the Hatch house, and Libby’s sudden relapse into moody agitation in the summer of 1893 had occurred, coincidentally, right after Parker’d told his superiors that his spiritual talents were being wasted in Ballston Spa, and he’d been dispatched to do good works in that modern-day Babylon, New York City.

Modern-day naguals, in an effort to avoid paying this exorbitant price in pain, had developed a code of behavior called the warrior's way, or the impeccable action, which prepared sorcerers by enhancing their sobriety and thoughtfulness.