How To Use Current In A Sentence

  • It would almost be better to have no backbench bills at all than the current system, which offers a false glimmer of hope. Times, Sunday Times
  • The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
  • A lot of businesses are being hurt by the current high interest rates.
  • We're currently shrinking the size of technology by a factor of 5.6 per linear dimension per decade, so it is conservative to say that this scenario will be feasible in a few decades.
  • Try to meet a boy with a little more depth than your current crop of potential beaus.
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  • One of our current projects is to convert a couple of bungalows in south London into a five-bedroom detached property. Times, Sunday Times
  • Net interest income dropped to $256.4 million, primarily due to the low market-interest rates that resulted in lower yields on mortgage-related interest-earning assets as customers refinanced to lower mortgage rates and new loans and asset purchases were at the current low market interest rates. Hudson City Bancorp Swings to Loss
  • We encounter a patient with recurrent jaundice resulting from tumor ingrowth to the metallic stent.
  • I'm currently enjoying the odd effect of chancing across spoken word excerpts in the original Italian.
  • Crucial is currently quoting as below, with a ten per cent discount for orders taken online.
  • Currently, 30 percent of Americans are obese, compared with the 4 percent who meet criteria for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge-eating disorder.
  • The highly textured surface of these poems does not, however, obscure the continuous emotional undercurrent.
  • At a minimum, the Bush administration had better step up its promotion of the economy's current sizzling performance.
  • WEIL: I think that the research being done on immunotherapy, gene therapy, antiangiogenesis therapy, I think all these things look more promising to me than our current approaches. CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2004
  • The changing magnetic fields create an electrical current.
  • The term Great Depression was a perfect fit in the 1930s; nobody has coined a phrase to properly describe our current plight. Dispatch.com: RSS
  • Tessa Morris-Suzuku of Australian National University perhaps the most widely known Australian historian of Japan presented a paper on colonial Karafuto, one of many topics she is currently researching. 2007: Japan Top Ten Year in Review
  • There are now many more women - a third of our current intake - but class remains an issue.
  • The current documents are the same, but now uncensored.
  • But researchers have had mixed success in recreating the original experiments showing both that sirtuins can extend life, and that they can be "activated" by a substance called resveratrol, which is currently found in anti-aging creams and under investigation for ailments associated with old age. Reuters: Press Release
  • How do you see his current situation? The Sun
  • We don't easily imagine anymore a naive, unsophisticated 14-year-old without the resources or experience to go it alone or see a way out of current circumstances.
  • BDC is currently conducting a Phase two placebo-controlled proof of concept study with the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor, etanercept, epidurally administered to a minimum of 40 patients with sciatica. THE MEDICAL NEWS
  • Definition: Consumption can be regarded as total expenditure by households on goods and services which yield utility in the current period.
  • The 100-acre wind farm near Strabane is currently capable of producing 6.6 kilo watts of power per hour.
  • I currently am in doubtful mode, but I am willing to see what comes of this mixture. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 Gets Ready To SAW Audiences In October – Collider.com
  • But it is nonetheless another intriguing work from one of the true auteurs currently working in cinema.
  • It cut the deposit rate it pays on large fixed accounts while concurrently increasing the rates it pays on smaller accounts.
  • This is not exactly the kind of harangue the current administion and the boys wanted to hear. Think Progress » Buchanan: ‘The Country I Grew Up In’ Was ‘89 or 90 Percent White. I Like That Country’
  • Most of the 12 who have been charged so far are current or former members of political parties currently in opposition. Times, Sunday Times
  • He founded his own business in the mid 1970s, and by 2004, at least fifteen master artists currently heading their own studios had apprenticed under him.
  • Quick Tag (Mac): Quickly add tags to the current song playing in iTunes with a simple, universal keyboard shortcut and autocompletion for quick tagging. The 23 Best iTunes Add-ons | Lifehacker Australia
  • Shares are currently trading at $0.68, so this is an excellent time to get into the market.
  • The current division of labor between workers and management will alter.
  • The swimmer was swept away by the current.
  • The judge was making the point that the Pledge, in its current incarnation, is only about 50 – 60 years old and that the language “under God” was inserted at a particular time in response to concerns of that time and that the Pledge is not some sacrosanct invocation from the founders. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin
  • Produced by the BBC's network current affairs unit in Manchester, Real Story will have a three series run of 28 programmes.
  • As if space has weather, and currents of permittivity sweep past. DEAD LINES
  • Under the current health care system, when children with type 1 diabetes become young adults, and go off their parents health insurance, they become "uninsurable". GA congressman describes hate mail, Nazi graffiti after protests
  • He noted that there is currently no democratic way of allowing the release of synbio technology, to which Dr. Gutmann retorted that there is no democratic way of banning it either. Michael Rugnetta: The Presidential Commission and Synthetic Biology
  • He may have misspoke, or thinking in Fahrenheit terms multiplied by the compression to get the geothermal energy available with current technology. Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
  • He neglected to point out that the current policies have failed miserably, in every way.
  • How that rule would apply to those currently incarcerated is unclear, but in any event, the benefits of this ethically questionable legislation would arguably be minimal. News Item
  • Arbon, are you speaking in generalities (Microsoft OS products are 'iffy' right out of the box!) are do you have current experience with an unstable Win7 product? Computers in mexico
  • The buoyant mood of his audience was certainly out of kilter with the deep undercurrent of frustration evident elsewhere in Bournemouth this week.
  • It is a recognition for the native title right to possess which can only be exercised in accordance with currently acknowledged laws and customs.
  • A current example is a digital camera on a chip that includes the imager, all control electronics, and an analog-to-digital converter - all on the same silicon chip.
  • The mutual back-scratching by which executive pay is currently set is ridiculous, and is an immense waste of the resources of public companies that ridiculously over-pay the back-scratchers .. 'Say on pay' moves full speed ahead
  • His current research is about the role of intelligence in multinational counterterrorism activities.
  • It's worth keeping in mind that household mortgage credit expanded at an 11.4% rate during the second quarter, a torrid pace likely being surpassed with the current refi boom.
  • A dynamo converts mechanical energy from a moving electrical conductor into electromagnetic energy and thus generates current.
  • However even currently available estimates already show encouraging results in the case 2 scenario described above.
  • Three of the four panelists are current or former editorial page editors.
  • Kelly is currently employed as a motorcycle mechanic.
  • Movements like onshoring, pushed by the current administration, have gained steam as the jobs market remains anemic.
  • For example, a wireless link between a cell phone and an earpiece supporting an audio link is currently available in the marketplace.
  • If the current year plays out like the last, that will have to be cut. Times, Sunday Times
  • The pictures showed that when the water reached a certain speed, it began to break into eddies, waves and cross-currents.
  • The recovery is on track, the current-account surplus is healthy, capital flows are strong, companies are restructuring and the recapitalization of banks is almost complete.
  • And so they traveled north with the current and favorable winds of the season.
  • The text of the Jnashwari had become corrupted, so he re-edited it, and his recension has remained current to the present day.
  • I was disappointed to see very few (if any) contributions to the patients' issue from doctors who currently face patients in an emergency, at unsocial hours, in dismal surroundings.
  • In response to a question from Séamus Cosaí Fitzgerald the harbour master, Brian Farrell, said that the proposed charges were in line with current fees in other ports.
  • They currently have up to 65 days to notify consumers after they have put up prices. Times, Sunday Times
  • How much evil is the current government going to inflict on our world before we wake up and boot them out?
  • Their ability to conduct surprise raids presupposed close familiarity with currents, beaches, and locations of population centres.
  • In his 1982 "Secondary Currents," which is described in the film's title credits as a "film noir," Rose pushes the sound and image concerns of structuralist filmmakers by creating a work that is "imageless": on a black screen, white subtitles translate the gibberish of the unreliable narrator in the voice-over. Baltimore City Paper
  • Wind energy simply cannot employ as many people as the coal industry currently does.
  • For example here was the winnt. sif file from my current install: Separate Data From Windows On A Standalone Partition | Lifehacker Australia
  • Yet a current show there, on one of the grandest of all illuminated manuscripts, does both.
  • She is currently enrolled at California State University Fullerton as a freshman in the Honors Program.
  • The current yield is the portion generated by coupon payments, which are usually paid twice a year, and, it accounts for most of the yield generated by corporate bonds.
  • Huguenots the free exercise of their religion only in the suburbs of one town in each bailiwick (bailliage), and in those places where it had been practised before the outbreak of hostilities and which they occupied at the current date. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • I am compelled to add my personal plea to the current campaign for all young adults to receive the Salk vaccine.
  • In a previous essay, we saw that a super-majority of evolutionary biologists self-identity as "pure naturalists," providing us good reason to think that a non-teleological prism is used to shape our current mainstream understanding of evolution. 2007 June - Telic Thoughts
  • The grain distribution system currently has massive over-capacity, meaning any company can handle extra volume if it can sell it.
  • According to Arfaan Khan, a British Pakistani linguist, a number of Hindi words such as chuddies are currently being imported from the Indian subcontinent.
  • RE: #106 – No one seems to want to have a technical discussion regarding the current mechanisms reponsible for the European drought of Fall 2006 and the zonally dominated current semi wet but warm pattern. More Unthreaded « Climate Audit
  • Yes, it drubs the Corolla, but the current Corolla has been around since the Earth cooled (2006). Brand-New and Almost Out of Date
  • Another hint: He is currently running for president.
  • Island on the L.S. is one of the worst quick or moveing sand bars Which I have Seen, notwithstanding all our precaustons to Clear the Sands and pass between them (which was the way we were compd. to pass, from the immence Current & falling banks on the S. S.) the Boat Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
  • Step 2 Next, click on the down arrow to the right of the list box displaying the current style.
  • Due to current economic conditions and overcapacity for LDPE in the North American marketplace, Dow Chemical is to close its Poly 2 LDPE plant in Freeport , Texas.
  • Bind a function to that button that triggers a click of the currently selected tab, use the methods tabsClick and tabsSelected, like (untested): var $tabs = $ ( '#tabs'). tabs ({... Klaus Hartl - Stilbüro
  • Among the substances currently being studied for their potential as delousing agents in salmon are the pyrethroid insecticides.
  • They co-pilot the No. 45 Flying Lizards Porsche and currently are in third place in the division with 69 points.
  • The current economy does not favour the development of small businesses.
  • Mr. Weber is not a moralist and does not claim that, by preferring Tchaikovsky to, say, the current-day atonalist Charles Wuorinen, we are philistines or reactionaries. That Melody Sounds Familiar
  • Thedrain saturation current is increased 10% after bonding. To disperse heat of GaNHEMT, this flip chip bonding method seems to be simple and effective.
  • Education is the current focus of public debate.
  • And then there is the current reprehensible practice of offering only two minutes of news throughout the day, with five minutes condescendingly given at certain selected times.
  • We have a positive current account balance. Times, Sunday Times
  • One of the current topics on the Child-Lit listserv, where I usually lurk, is a discussion "Harry Potter -- Hype or Word Of Mouth," which got me thinking about when I first read HP and its impact on me, personally and professionally. How I Found Out About Harry
  • There's also more back seat leg and headroom and more comfortable rear seats, an area criticised in the current model. The Sun
  • Although efforts to divert single-use batteries from the waste stream are growing, only a patchwork of regulations currently exists, depending on where you live.
  • All of the information collated here is part of a wider investigation currently being pursued by a number of media outlets.
  • These low-aspect-ratio stellarator-tokamak hybrids differ from conventional stellarators in their use of the plasma-generated bootstrap current to supplement the poloidal field from external coils.
  • The current mob are three away from equalling that tally with 33 games remaining. Times, Sunday Times
  • But now the Cumbrians are enjoying a new lease of life in their refurbished ground and are currently second. The Sun
  • In America, Hollerith, working on census returns, developed a machine using electric current and capable of analysing returns at speed.
  • Current data limitations such as the small size of the population mean the possibility of a small increased risk cannot be excluded.
  • He would therefore be utterly unamazed to read some of the reviews currently being written of this movie.
  • The so-called audience learns about the proposer herself, measures her credibility, considers her ideas, and deepens her understanding of the current exigency as the rhetor sees it.
  • The current appeal site comprises only the former lairage fields, lying between the rear of residential properties fronting West Road and factories to the north and east.
  • Police are currently awaiting a toxicology report. The Sun
  • The current tax system has been in operation for ten years.
  • There are currently 235 unfilled consultant posts, compared with 153 in 2001.
  • From the cooler water morwong, to a splendid angelfish and the brightly speckled hawkfish, this oceanic haven in the middle of a vast sea vibrates to the rhythm of the Pacific's currents.
  • If they feel it is advantageous for them to retire their current bonds and secure a lower rate by issuing new bonds, they may call their bonds.
  • The community currently receives service from a rural mobile library.
  • The society is currently looking for tenors basses, altos and sopranos to join the adult choir.
  • Although his home is currently in Bridge of Weir, most of his time is spent criss-crossing the globe to oversee the Business Network Division's operations.
  • Recovering slowly, with agony, from each of these recurrent blows, his unquenchable exuberance had lived.
  • A method of current boundary control which has an application prospect was advanced. The conception and contents of advanced control-flow were presented.
  • He believes that there's a distinct possibility this is the real ossuary of James, although he admits that the current evidence would not hold up in court.
  • Promoted to Commander/05 (22 October 2009), currently in refresher flight training (jets) with Training Wing JOSEPH ANTHONY ROSSI
  • As a producer and processor of organic products, Dirk is a successful and independent supplier of the current market demand.
  • Jack's hobby was model making and he was currently engaged in a vast and ambitious project.
  • This one, legally named Tracy Worcester - she insists on "Tracy" unless her lunch companion finds her title amusing - is currently having such a moment. Saturday Conversation: The Marchioness of Worcester
  • One of my sons is currently at university studying management and another is in high school preparing for university. Times, Sunday Times
  • Vic Craven edged a ball on to his stumps to make the former England star only the fifth bowler currently playing anywhere in the world to have joined the elite club.
  • The winds associated with this broader wake spawn a narrow eastward countercurrent that draws warm water from west to east.
  • More critical are analogous words that have acquired easily mistakable senses, such as eventually/eventuellement (‘possibly’), actually/actuellement (‘currently’), or to attend/attendre (‘to wait’). French/english Translation: the Unusual History of the English Language « Articles « Literacy News
  • By analyzing current teaching status of bench work specialty in middle vocational schools, this paper presents the thoughts and methods to reform the teaching pattern of bench work specialty.
  • With the current turmoil in the US economy one wonders if people will be quite so free with their money on luxuries this year.
  • By comparison, the current hunger strike - in which 12 of the 13 were being force-fed as of Friday - seems almost symbolic.
  • Often, the most important jobs get "mediocrities" like Greenspan and the current White House occupant. "Immoral Hazard"
  • Current thinking is that some patients have inherited a predisposition to develop thyrotoxic periodic paralysis under the right set of circumstances. NYT > Home Page
  • As Els has pointed out, doing what he is currently doing has no minuses and many positives for all concerned.
  • It is understood they are to be the main attraction of a dolphinarium currently being built. The Sun
  • I’m happy about apple and att is offering a faster Internet and technology however I’m upset that apple and att are not doing anything for the current iPhone owners. Basic Instinct: Sprint Battles AT&T and iPhone With New Samsung Device - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
  • The F-22's "supercruise," that is, its ability to cruise supersonically, is unusably short in duration due to inadequate onboard fuel capacity -- so short that current Air Force training missions to exercise supercruising combat actually schedule one tanker refueling just before going supersonic and one more refueling before going home subsonically. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • The current trade deficit indicates a serious imbalance between our import and export trade.
  • Islam has changed unprecedentedly in the domain of life and culture in the tidal current of adapting to Socialism society and time, and has stridden into a rational development time.
  • And in the current climate of falling property prices, valuers are being overcautious. Times, Sunday Times
  • Grass-fed beef is more eco-friendly than corn-fed, but supplies of it could never sustainably meet current consumer demand.
  • Current conditions out of the airport, the very last hour, reporting north-northeasterly winds at 40 miles an hour with gusts to 73 miles an hour. CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Singapore Airlines 747 Crashes in Taiwan; No Fatalities Reported - October 31, 2000
  • The way many estate plans are currently worded could cause them to backfire, either by triggering unnecessary state estate taxes or even accidentally disinheriting a surviving spouse. Does Your Trust Need a Tune-Up?
  • I thought I should have fainted; but a torrent of tears recalled the ebbing current of my heart, and I grew proud in fortitude, though humbled in self-love. Memoirs of Mary Robinson
  • Opened in 2007, the family-run Forte S ā o Jo ā o da Barra is part of a small but growing band of hotels running countercurrent to the wave of mass tourism that has swept over much of the Algarve region during the past 40 years. Portugal's Alluring Hideaways
  • Total Capital Expenditures for 2009 are less than historical and current estimates for Maintenance and Obligatory Capital Expenditures which we define as the estimated amount of investment in capital projects and obligatory spending on existing facilities and operations needed to hold production approximately constant for the period. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • Aggregate data are calculated at current prices, while indices are calculated at comparable prices.
  • We are currently assigning all non-essential personnel to the removal of these unwanted franchise restaurants.
  • The airline industry is currently in a slump.
  • If he currently manages other artists how long have those other artists been represented by him?
  • The following day was spent entering and exiting the fast-flowing currents and wild eddies in white water on the Mitta Mitta River.
  • Current account and mobile phone number binding mode of operation is relatively common, you must be more careful, minimize disclose personal information in network.
  • I am a highly educated, successful career woman who finally realized that we women are getting ripped off by the current culture and the educational establishment who is brainwashing us into a life of hectic, unfulfilling work in stuffy cubicles working long, stressful hours to earn enough so that we can "relax" on a beach somewhere. Get in on Life...
  • Some current assets are by nature needed to maintain the company operations and would not normally be available to meet short-term obligations.
  • The OHRC does not indicate that current or past position is a discriminable ground. Criminal Defence Lawyers Need Not Apply : Law is Cool
  • Similarly, a bout of angina may be protective; but the protection may well be lost with recurrent angina.
  • Currently the at-risk register covers a national view of archaeology, monuments, gardens, conservation areas, places of worship, wrecks and battlefields. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was currently single and relatively unattached.
  • A concurrent effect to this drop in violent crime occurs in the form of an increase in some levels of property crimes, including larceny and auto theft.
  • "Many sectors need investment, but the current growth rate is unsustainable.
  • Public-private partnerships and social housing units are just two options currently being explored.
  • The results of the current study also strengthen claims that psychopathy is a neurocognitive disorder that is apparent across the lifespan.
  • The current test of justifiability is thus based on an objective balancing of reasonableness.
  • Sweating and red-faced, he'd stood in the middle of the hall, the tea slopping over the marble in a red tide and the newspaper rapidly disintegrating in the currents.
  • Currently, Mae is working as a writer in schools, to introduce children to the rich variety of writers working in Ireland.
  • Prior to the current political crisis, the Senate had been largely supportive of Mr Estrada since he took power in 1998.
  • She currently resides in Virginia with her husband, daughter, and a mighty clowder of cats.
  • Current foreign correspondent and announcer for News Probe.
  • In the first place, it was found that, because of the reducing action of metallic copper on cupric sulphate to form cuprous sulphate, too little copper was deposited in the copper coulometer to correspond to the current. Theodore W. Richards - Nobel Lecture
  • It is prudent we pause further reductions while the current situation is unfolding. The Sun
  • Such systems could operate at lower cost than current methods and may soon become commercialized.
  • It urged them to contact local offices for expert advice in dealing with the current problems.
  • The recent extent of the Northern Hemisphere tree-ring densitometric network currently under construction which forms the basis of the results discussed in this paper. A Briffa Collation « Climate Audit
  • One of our current realities is that the State of Florida is facing declining tax revenues, and is balancing its books on the backs of schoolchildren. Discourse.net: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Still Doesn't Have Our Interests at Heart
  • The change of attitude towards alternating current was certainly helped by the Westinghouse exhibit at the Columbian Exposition that year.
  • Currently, many pneumococci are resistant to penicillins and other agents.
  • I am currently in gainful employment as a consultant on this project. “Response Times” Are Back SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Current too strong -- can't row boat 'gainst current -- mush walk back. The Passing of Marcus O'Brien
  • Most of the nicks, scuffs and gouges that currently mar the work are a result of human carelessness, such as carts and chairs banging into the walls.
  • Off set deals are looking particularly appealing given that no easy access accounts currently beat inflation. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Enigma machine looked like a typewriter in a wooden box, with an electric current travelling from the keyboard through a set of rotors and a plugboard to light up the ‘code’ alphabet.
  • Wiltshire is currently ranked as the second safest county in the country.
  • That might have been crass, but the film is peppered with jarring references and disconcerting parallels to current events.
  • In her current role she broke through the glass ceiling as the first woman to reach senior management level in the company.
  • Currently I've aligned the shim with the frameset cut and have the collar at 180 degrees to the seat lug.
  • There clearly are some issues that cannot be adequately covered by the enduring power of attorney legislation currently provided in law.
  • I don't particularly care whether a stock quote is 20 minutes late, but if I wanted current information I'd probably go to Bloomberg.
  • Need I point out that they provided better health care than my current doc does?
  • The interface for typing in your entries is a joy to use, featuring a 'dashboard' that lists your blogs and easy access to editing current posts and creating new ones.
  • As the magnetic storm raged through the night, huge geomagnetically induced currents surged through the wires and cables.
  • Ingrid is currently teaching Mathematics at Shimla Public School.
  • A dramatic improvement in health status is anticipated with life expectancy going beyond current forecasts.
  • This notion of the singularity is the most popular (although by no means the only) current theory. Think Progress » Cheney: If You Don’t Support Everything I Do, You Aren’t Serious About Terrorism
  • Above environment of competition of the current situation of passenger liner industry, network and development anticipate.
  • The liquidation committee shall appoint the Independent Appraiser to conduct a valuation of the Company's assets on a current fair market value basis.
  • Never apply water to a burn from an electric shock while the casualty is still in contact with the electric current.
  • Jersey political shtick stand-up at the Democratic National Convention; the arena that bore his name has gone through several different corporate sponsors since, and is currently a severely brand-infected assaultively unrelenting advertising-delivery module - in which basketball is still played, sometimes - sponsored by Izod. Can't Stop The Bleeding
  • Fortunately the school's bank account is currently in surplus.
  • My current processor is a 2 ghz Pentium M in a laptop, so I'm not sure at all what multiple cores actually get done in the real world, and am having trouble finding such info. posted on Sun Dec 28, 2008 9: 05 pm coelomate wrote: Say I have two monitors (19x12 and 16x10) up and rocking, and decide to have an instant messaging program, iTunes, a spread sheet, a word document, and firefox all running. The Tech Report: News
  • According to F&F Foods, the current manufacturer of Sen Sen®, the candy straddled olfactive and gustative categorization at its inception and “In keeping with its perfumery roots, it was on the market list for many years as a cosmetic.” Breath Perfumes
  • A rectal probe housing a linear array of five copper-constantan thermocouples was designed to measure colonic temperatures simultaneously at positions anterior to, within, and posterior to the region of the colon flanked by the countercurrent heat exchanger. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • The majority of the property was built specifically for its current use and features include a nurse call system, emergency lighting and a three-phase electricity system.
  • The Pentagon is currently drawing up a new list of project proposals, to be evaluated by a scientific advisory committee.
  • On current form most bookmakers will surely be offering short odds on them managing even the one point this time around.
  • We are looking at investment properties within a £80,000 to £130,000 range and would prefer not to remortgage our home to raise capital as our current rate tracks the base rate plus 0.75%. What is the best way to buy a holiday home?

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