1. She's a modern-day Joan of Arc.

2. Modern-day engines are so much more efficient.

3. It has been called modern-day slavery.

4. Noise is one of the curses of modern-day life.

5. The modern-day diet has too little fiber in it.

6. The modern-day sex symbol has now taken the place of the old-fashioned hero of yesteryear.

7. He is recognized as the forerunner of all modern-day British Prime Ministers.

8. Both were found in digs at a modern-day campsite.

9. Modern-day pirates have been on a winning streak.

10. Gilliam's movie is a modern-day fairy tale.

11. Modern-day sportswriting is full of itself.

12. The modern-day locator has everything in its favour - provided only that it is fitted with a functioning battery.

13. They are the charts of a new frontier, modern-day versions of the maps made before ships circumnavigated the globe.

14. Beside him Carol watched the modern-day gladiators as they came at each other.

15. For me there are no modern-day heroes in the retailing world.

16. Two problematical areas in modern-day criminal law are dishonesty and intention.

17. Alice, the Miracle Worker, was a modern-day phenomenon; why should the past play any part?

18. Like the modern-day Gulf Stream, these waters warmed and humidified the two landmasses.

19. Hall is angry at what he sees as a caricature of the training offered to modern-day social workers.

20. Such chemical signals would have been the forerunner of modern-day hormones.

21. The four claim the current administration has not responded adequately to the fast-moving demands of a modern-day sport.

22. This method of catching fish was an early form of modern-day trawling.

23. This ensures nothing is inadvertently left inside the patient, although modern-day swabs do show up on X-rays.

24. But Modigliani broke all the taboos and behaved like a modern-day King David.

25. With increasing multiracial societies in most countries and the speed of modern-day travel such patients are found in hospitals throughout the world.

26. He listened to lengthy and completely spurious accounts by this modern-day alchemist of how his machine supposedly worked.

27. On top of all that, he played the trumpet with all the skill of a modern-day Joshua!

28. I am for ever bemused by the verities of our modern-day society.

29. And the stakes are high - tribal peoples are intimidated, beaten and sometimes killed for opposing modern-day land grabs.

30. Inside, mariachis offer to sing songs about the mustachioed bandit turned saint or the modern-day outlaws.

1. She's a modern-day Joan of Arc.

31. For its part, Pan Am must have viewed the girdle as a kind of modern-day chastity belt.

32. You'd have thought that re-creating it on stage would have the same effect on a modern-day director.

33. Its as much a part of being a modern-day star as appearing on chat shows or signing autographs.

34. Modern-day racers are under the public spotlight and any slip-up can land them in serious trouble.

35. The story is designed to be a modern-day film noir.

36. So-called "evidence-based medicine" has become modern-day quackery.

37. Bambiraptor had a keen sniffer similar to that of a modern-day turkey vulture.

38. The decision to rebury the site, near the modern-day city of Bergama, was made in August by a local preservation board, and it has been hotly protested by activists and archaeologists.

39. But the plan backfired, with modern-day historians claiming that Versailles was a key factor in the lead-up to World War II.

40. Pocket billiards such as modern-day pool and snooker were around, but they were considered to be the ill-bred cousins of carom billiards, which used a pocketless table.

41. Modern-day Rome is the capital of Italy once again and one of the most visited places in the world.

42. Modern-day squat evangelists make money off the claim that a "more natural" posture wards off all sorts of health problems, from Crohn's disease to colon cancer.

42. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

43. A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.

44. An ancient town of Asia Minor on the Asiatic coast of the Hellespont in modern-day Turkey. It was the scene of the legendary tale of Hero and Leander.

45. First, the chilly "Older Dryas" of 14, 700 to 13, 400 years ago transformed most of Europe from forest to tundra, like modern-day Siberia.

46. Some 2600 years ago Aristotle wrote a book on palmistry for Alexander the Great, and there is nothing in that book that a modern-day palmist would dispute.

47. For instance, modern-day ice cracks off Antarctica are "chockablock" with single-celled life-forms, he said.

48. The creature weighed in at an estimated 120 to 130 pounds, or roughly twice as heavy as the modern-day emperor penguin.

49. The latest entry in the fairy-tale sweepstakes is Grimm, a vaguely creepy new NBC series that brings supernatural creatures to life in modern-day Oregon.

50. In this view, it is held both religiously and scientifically correct to reinterpret ancient religious texts in line with modern-day scientific findings about evolution.

51. A city of ancient Latium southeast of modern-day Rome, Italy. Pliny the Younger, Cicero, and the emperors Nero and Titus were among the prominent Romans who built villas here.

52. The ancient flowering plant, Archaefructus liaoningensis, resembles a modern-day buttercup, with slender stems and three-lobed leaves.

53. Using the skull of a modern-day lion for comparison, a team of scientists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) found the sabertooth had a relatively weak bite.

54. It could, like the modern-day albatross, glide by navigating through thermals but was also fully capable of powered flight.

55. At that time most of modern-day British Columbia was still icebound, and a white coat may have offered camouflage.

56. The fourth attraction is the unique symbol of this World Expo–modern-day China.

57. The empire with the accession of Manco Capac to emperor of a tribe in the Cuzco area of modern-day Peru around 1200.

58. The State Department honors the efforts of individuals to end trafficking in its report section called "Heroes Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery."

59. A man walks his camel past the Step Pyramid of Sakkara, Egypt. The ancient structure stands close to modern-day Cairo.

60. A region of southeast Europe on the Balkan Peninsula including parts of modern-day Greece, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia .

61. It makes me think of a modern-day Casanova, who specialised in entering the homes of attractive, successful single women as they slept.

62. Katherine Chon was discussing the historical abolition of slavery in the United States with her classmate Derek Ellerman when the talk veered to modern-day slavery.

63. By 2012, a regional railway — hailed by some as a modern-day Silk Route — is expected to connect Baku to Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital to the north, and to Kars, Turkey, to the west.

64. I'm also including modern-day approaches to computational theory, cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary theory and cultural psychology.

65. But it was the Pinatubo eruption that provided a modern-day example of geoengineering's potential.

66. The revisions more accurately reflect translations of ancient Hebrew and Greek versions of the Old Testament and the constant evolution of modern-day language, Sperry said.

67. The hanging gardens are said to have stood on the banks of the Euphrates River in modern-day Iraq, although there's some doubt as to whether they ever really existed.

68. New research hints that modern-day versions of the insects are far older than any tyrannosaur that trod the Earth.

69. The skeleton found in Seven Rivers, Jamaica, is a new genus and species of the order Sirenia, which encompasses the ancestors of modern-day manatees and dugongs.

70. Or maybe some lower status social anthropologists could get their revenge by studying those economists, as a modern-day tribe.

71. Historical models look backward while modern-day finance is being fast forwarded and reconstituted almost as we speak.

72. It is difficult to picture Mr. Snell's modern-day counterpart, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, saying anything like that.

73. Muslims all over the world witnessed the suffering of their brothers and sisters," he says, sounding very much like a modern-day jihadi.

74. Tootsie Roll's Chicago headquarters is a modern-day Willy Wonka factory.

75. The historic centre of town is the Durbar Square, where the compulsory cluster of temples oversees the bustle of modern-day Kathmandu.

76. The tongue of this modern-day dinosaur look-alike can be extended more than twice the length of its body.

77. One modern-day panner finds his fortune on the 0.2-mile stretch of 47th Street in midtown Manhattan.