Thus modern political theorists typically legitimize the state with two major ideas: redistribution and the provision of public goods.

To be a nation, said Ernest Renan, one of its great modern theorists, the individuals who make it up must have forgotten many things.

The doctrine is, I take it, one from which a modern theorist can hardly escape, or hardly wishes to.

Many modern theorists have stated that this ideal cannot be achieved independently of some analysis of additional factors.

"That of course was a very small war, by the standards of modern theorists."

Other translations from modern French theorists are, one hears, very inadequate.

Unlike many modern theorists, he "does not see figurative language as a threat to the stability of linguistic reference" (Leitch, 156).

Bowlby (and many other modern ethological theorists) believed that humans spontaneously act to meet the demands of their environment.

Payne is one of the most famous modern theorists of fascism.

At their worst, in the early part of the century, modern architectural theorists regarded anything as sentimental as a curved line perfidious.