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A lot has changed in America; even leaders from the Southern Baptist Convention refer to the twenty-first-century age we live in as a “post-Christian era.”
God Attachment Dr. Tim Clinton 2010
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A lot has changed in America; even leaders from the Southern Baptist Convention refer to the twenty-first-century age we live in as a “post-Christian era.”
God Attachment Dr. Tim Clinton 2010
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A lot has changed in America; even leaders from the Southern Baptist Convention refer to the twenty-first-century age we live in as a “post-Christian era.”
God Attachment Dr. Tim Clinton 2010
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To the twenty-first-century ear, these lyrics sound conventionally romantic.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Whichever number is more accurate—and to the twenty-first-century mind a single whipping in a lifetime is an unspeakable horror—it is quite likely that free whites, especially children, received physical punishments more frequently than this.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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I hope that twenty-first-century Islamic leaders can unshackle themselves from antiquated ideas about gender roles and open themselves to a more moderate and progressive approach.
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I also found resources like Punch magazine an excellent way of observing the social mores of the decade without having them filtered through the lens of twenty-first-century scholarship.
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Left to his own devices within the new wonder of a twenty-first-century human home, sleep evaded him.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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But the Triangle fire is a big part of the reason that we have a lot of those twenty-first-century standards.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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By twenty-first-century standards, the conditions that led to so many of the deaths at Triangle are hard to believe.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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