Meanings of modern states in English

Dealings between modern states are about rules and courtesies for a good reason.

The peninsula was henceforth divided between the two modern states of Spain and Portugal.

They included the modern states of Arizona, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, California, and Nevada.

The machinery of government was never so well organized as in the best modern states.

Gorman always says that the strings of government in modern states are pulled by financiers.

All modern states are more or less tainted with the same delusion-ourselvesmost, perhaps, after Germany.

From hence the powers of all our modern states meet, in all their movements, with some obstruction.

The concept is also cited to justify the curtailment of civil liberties in super- modern states like Singapore.

But this natural order of things has, in all the modern states of Europe, been in many respects entirely inverted.

And he complains that the civil law of modern states interferes with the "domestical prerogative of the husband."

These two things, restraint of trade and advantage of shipping, are the chief material causes of anger between modern states.

Still they bore the hall-mark of Rome, prototype of all our modern states, and their authorised exponents were the State rhetoricians.

The old free enterprise Merchants of Death looked innocent by comparison with modern states, competing to sell destruction by the megaton.

It is one which has been illustrated in the history of modern states, not less vividly than in the history of antiquity.

All modern states and societies must choose whether to be governed by merit (meritocracy) or by the privileged few (oligarchy).

In many modern states and in some ancient, there is great diversity of populations, of varying languages, religions, moral codes, and traditions.