contemporaries

Doubtless the heaviest burden of our contemporaries is a consciousness of a divergence between our democratic theory on the one hand, that working people have a right to the intellectual resources of society, and the actual fact on the other hand, that thousands of them are so overburdened with toil that there is no leisure nor energy left for the cultivation of the mind.

Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910

In his parables, the familiar world of his contemporaries is recast, to become something new and strange -- people showing up late for work receive the same wage as the early birds, layabouts are treated with more favour than their dutiful siblings, his Kingdom is like a mustard seed, and friends and family, we are told, should not be invited to your dinner-parties.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

What was unremarkable to contemporaries, in other words, is precisely what seems most puzzling in retrospect.

How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010

During the last four years, while most of her contemporaries from the first part of her career have dropped off the radar or retired from the sport, Reed has been chugging along, picking up World Cup and Pan-Am Games medals and multiple national championships along the way.

Reed wins world title, USA TODAY weekly honor 2008

If the world is done right, then we, as readers, are willing to accept a lot more from these men than we would from men in contemporaries, for example.

Archive 2007-04-01 Nalini Singh 2007

Obviously, the thing that will set the R-Zero apart from its sports car contemporaries is the fact that it will be powered by an electric engine.

Audi to Make Electric Sports Car | Impact Lab 2006

[Page 162] away from a newspaper office, and after a long time read in the same paper: "One of our respected contemporaries is authority for the story than an unknown Indian woman dropped dead on the street about two weeks ago."

Six Months in Mexico 1888

THE extraordinary bodily, as well as mental superiority which Wallace and Bruce possessed over their contemporaries, is thus recorded by Hector Boetius: –

The Scottish Chiefs 1875

I write single-title contemporaries and romantic suspense.

Magical Musings 2008

The unanimous evidence of his contemporaries is confirmed by the public and private declarations of the emperor himself; and his various writings express the uniform tenor of his religious sentiments, which policy would have prompted him to dissemble rather than to affect.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206