| An important feature of present-day globalisation is the advent of a consumer credit society. |
| The film is a period thriller clearly intended to shed light on present-day problems. |
| We pity our forebears for the pain and suffering they endured along the way and revel in our comfortable present-day lives. |
| The collapse of European fertility rates shows the force of present-day welfare state pressures. |
| The present-day education system hardly resolves the prejudices against the victims. |
| In the light of present-day circumstances, old-age homes have to be accepted as an option. |
