Antiquated Sentence Examples

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  • Give up the antiquated morals or the relationship.

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  • Think of it as a tribal warrior society that's kinda backwards or antiquated in its customs.

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  • His language was antiquated and his style dry, but his work was considered important.

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  • Fowls are kept on all farms and, though methods are still antiquated, trade in fowls and eggs is rapidly increasing.

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  • A propane tank perched on concrete blocks looked out of place in the antiquated setting.

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  • He summoned experienced teachers, Protestant as well as Catholic, from Germany, established middle and higher schools in all parts of the empire, superseded the antiquated textbooks and methods of instruction, and encouraged the formation of learned societies and the growth of a professional spirit and independence among the teachers.

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  • But there is nothing in his words or actions at this time to show that he desired peace except on terms which were clearly antiquated.

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  • Silk spinning and weaving are carried on on antiquated lines, and silkworms are reared in a desultory fashion.

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  • The siege corps was commanded by General von Tresckow and numbered at first io,000 men with twenty-four field guns - a force which appeared adequate for the reduction of the antiquated works of Vauban.

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  • Jacob Tam, who espoused the antiquated system of Menahem b.Saruq, and this he supplements by an independent critique of Menahem.

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  • In his latter years he became unpopular from the extortions practised by his two instruments, Empson and Dudley, under the authority of antiquated statutes.

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  • The proceedings are, with but few exceptions, written, and the procedure is a survival of the antiquated Spanish system.

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  • Several of his immediate predecessors had come to recognize that Russia, with her antiquated military organization, was unable to cope with her Western neighbours, and had begun to organize, with the help of foreigners, a military force more in accordance with modern requirements; but the progress made in that direction had been slow and unsatisfactory.

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  • As in the case of Galen, the formal and encyclopaedic character of Avicenna's works was the chief cause of his popularity and ascendancy, though in modern times these very qualities in a scientific or medical writer would rather cause him to become more speedily antiquated.

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  • The IT system in the offices at Loughborough is now antiquated.

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  • The table has been hand made in England and tastefully antiquated and distressed to give a wonderful aged patina.

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  • The instrumental equipment of that observatory was somewhat antiquated, his largest telescope being a small refractor of 73 lines aperture, but he selected a line of work to suit the instruments at his disposal, observing nebulae and variable stars and keeping a watch on comets and new planets.

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  • When in April 1898 war broke out between Spain and the United States the former strongly garrisoned the island, but the fortifications of the capital were largely of the massive stone construction that had repelled Abercrombie a century before, most of the artillery was of an obsolete pattern and the few cruisers in the harbour were antiquated in type.

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  • The front pockets are lined with antiquated gold studs.

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  • Once considered antiquated and bourgeois, wooden clocks of all types have recently reemerged as a valid and desired home fashion accent.

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  • While advice such as walking with a book balanced on your head may seem antiquated, it does have its merits.

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  • Finally Fred O'Connor withdrew a crumpled dollar bill from his antiquated change purse and a fountain pen from his jacket pocket.

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  • It was demolished in 1897, the defences being antiquated.

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  • Ouro Preto has several historic buildings; they are of antiquated appearance and built of the simplest materials - broken stone and mortar, with an exterior covering of plaster.

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  • The fortifications were strengthened in 1841, and remained in an antiquated condition until 1882, when they were renovated by Arabi Pasha.

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  • In the sense that they already existed and came ready-made to the prince's hand, it is legitimate to speak of these customs as a popular law, a Volksrecht; but it was the prince who gave them force of law, emended them, and rejected such of the ancient usages as appeared to him antiquated.

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  • At the same time it must be admitted that it gradually became antiquated.

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  • It was suppressed in an hour's time by the tsar's troops, of whom only one man was mortally wounded; and the horrible vengeance (September - October 1698) which Peter on his return to Russia wreaked upon the captive musketeers was due not to any actual fear of these antiquated warriors, but to his consciousness that behind them stood the reactionary majority of the nation who secretly sympathized with, though they durst not assist, the rebels.

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  • The most compendious of all works of reference on the subject, though partly antiquated, is the Encyclopedia theologique of the Abbe Migne (1844-66), Ser.

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  • The state's own constitution, which had been adopted in 1776 and amended in 1777, retained, like other state constitutions framed during the War of Independence, many features of colonial government ill-adapted to a state increasingly democratic. The basis of representation, each county electing three members to the assembly and one member to the legislative council, soon became antiquated.

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  • Although no obstinate adherent of antiquated forms and prejudices, he firmly upheld the fundamental truths of Christianity.

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  • The university has faculties of theology, law and medicine, and has 200 to 250 students, but it is antiquated in character and poorly supported.

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  • The years from 1850 to 1859 were devoted to restoring the shattered finances of Sardinia, reorganizing the army and modernizing the antiquated institutions of the kingdom.

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  • While I complain away about the slightly antiquated sound of Marcy Playground it's only because the music scene is changing so quickly.

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  • It's why Europeans drink so much wine and beer as their water systems are so antiquated or bad.

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  • Not a single line of this manifesto has become antiquated.

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  • The test took too long and it seems antiquated in these modern times.

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  • Yet it was scarcely until the last quarter of the 19th century that the apprenticeship system, which was a mere initiation into the art and mystery of a craft, was recognized as antiquated and, in its virtual exclusion of academic study, even mischievous.

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  • Hi llmann, Stadtewesen des Mittelalters (4 vols., Bonn, 1826-1828), is quite antiquated.

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  • One immediate consequence of this is that Tinker, Tailor... feels somewhat antiquated, of belonging in some distant, unfamiliar time.

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  • However, even an antiquated social order does not cede its place to a new order without resistance.

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  • Keith had just bought an antiquated portable reel-to-reel tape recorder to make recordings of the events he attended.

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  • The dream came to fruition when a pair of antiquated woodwinds were discovered in the basement storeroom of a Columbus instrument dealer.

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  • Already antiquated, it could not resist the wit and raillery with which Voltaire, in his Lettres sur les Anglais (1728), brought against it the principles and results of Locke and Newton.

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  • In May 1899 the minister of justice stated in the chamber of deputies that the machinery of the courts in the country was antiquated, unwieldy and incapable of performing its duties; that 50,000 cases were then waiting decision in the minor courts, and Io,000 in the federal division; and that a reconstruction of the judiciary and the judicial system had become necessary.

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  • He could only carry the picturesque sentimentalism of Rousseau, Bernardin de Saint Pierre and Chateaubriand a little farther, and clothe it in language and verse a little less antiquated than that of Chenedolle and Millevoye.

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  • But both these were completely antiquated by the great edition of Du Cange in 1657, wherein that learned writer employed all his knowledge, never since equalled, of the subject, but added a translation, or rather paraphrase, into modern French which is scarcely worthy either of himself or his author.

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  • But Cyprian of Carthage said long ago, Consuetudo sine veritate vetustas erroris est; and the bare fact of previous existence is no argument for the re-introduction of obsolete and antiquated institutions and theories.

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  • Jacobi was ridiculed as endeavouring to reintroduce into philosophy the antiquated notion of unreasoning belief, was denounced as an enemy of reason, as a pietist, and as in all probability a Jesuit in disguise, and was especially attacked for his use of the ambiguous term "belief."

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  • In this day and age, antique stores will charge a fortune for you to buy a piece of lawn furniture, an old record player, an antiquated outfit, or even a poster.

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  • Despite the antiquated equipment, Cartier-Bresson was able to capture beauty and emotion through the camera lens like no one else.

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  • Some seniors feel the pomp and circumstance of graduation is an antiquated idea, and therefore they decide against any form of announcement whatsoever.

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  • Print catalogs may seem a bit antiquated in this technologically driven age, but they do still exist.

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  • Although many print-based courses have become antiquated, those that do still exist are just as rigorous and fulfilling as online versions.

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  • These systems can be antiquated, requiring the modification of existing products to fit the needs of equipment for which parts are no longer available.

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  • The great news is that a lot of the rules that used to apply to women of a certain age are now antiquated.

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  • Their Buccaneer coat is made of wool, with huge bell cuffs and antiquated buttons.

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  • Shopping from a catalog might seem an antiquated practice to some - and to others, it may be completely foreign.

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  • Calling a lower back tattoo a "tramp stamp" is many women's way of thumbing their nose at antiquated attitudes about a woman's right to express herself.

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  • In some ways, guestbooks are somewhat antiquated parts of the web.

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  • All these older methods have, however, been thrown into the background and rendered antiquated by inventions which have grown out of Hertz's scientific investigations on the production of electric waves.

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  • The French system of taxation was maintained because it brought in ampler revenues; but feudalism, the antiquated legislation and bureaucracy were revived, and all the officers and officials still living who had served the state before the Revolution, many of them now in their dotage, were restored to their posts; only nobles were eligible for the higher government appointments; all who had served under the French administration were dismissed pr reduced in rank, and in the army beardless scions of the aristocracy were placed over the, heads of war-worn veterans who had commanded regiments in Spain and Russia.

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  • The phrases still quoted from him have nothing of an antiquated sound, while they have a genuinely idiomatic ring.

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  • The legal point in the dispute (which Campbell afterwards made the subject of a separate pamphlet) was whether the churchwardens of the parish, in the absence of the vestry, had any means of enforcing a rate except the antiquated interdict or ecclesiastical censure.

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  • As regards the dates and historical interpretation of the Psalms, all older discussions, even those of Ewald, are in great measure antiquated by recent progress in Pentateuch criticism and the history of the canon, and an entirely fresh treatment of the Psalter by a sober critical commentator is urgently needed.

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  • The industry, however, has not kept pace with its development in other countries and, in great part, still employs antiquated methods and machinery.

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  • Moreover, freedom of trade and of travel has been promoted by a reform of the antiquated, cumbrous, and too often futile methods of quarantine - a reform as yet very far from complete, but founded upon a better understanding of the nature and propagation of disease.

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  • Modern methods of hydraulic mining have been introduced to work the auriferous banks of Poto; elsewhere antiquated methods only are employed.

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  • The discoveries of Copernicus were eagerly accepted by him, and he used them as the lever by which to push aside the antiquated system that had come down from Aristotle, for whom, indeed, he had a perfect hatred.

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  • Saxon agriculture, though dating its origin from the Wends, was long impeded by antiquated customs, while the land was subdivided into small parcels and subjected to vexatious rights.

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  • For many years he devoted his leisure to Greek studies, and in1850-1857he published five volumes of a Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece, which, though uncompleted and somewhat antiquated, is still useful.

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  • In recent times therefore advance in the understanding of the prophets has moved on pari passu with the higher criticism, especially the criticism of the Pentateuch, and with the general study of Hebrew history; and most works on the subject prior to Ewald must be regarded as quite antiquated except for the light they cast on detailed points of exegesis.

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  • Greek and Arabic were antiquated, or at least isolated, in a land which Norman conquest had made part of western Europe and Latin Christendom.

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  • He entirely reformed the teaching of theology there, substituting the historical method of the German theologians for the antiquated Orthodox scholastic system.

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  • By the Treaty of Corbeil, with Louis IX., signed the r rth of May 1258, he frankly withdrew from conflict with the French king, and contented himself with the recognition of his position, and the surrender of antiquated French claims to the overlordship of Catalonia.

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  • But in his successors, from Fichte to Hegel, this axiom of the plain man is set aside as antiquated.

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  • My mission is to redefine the somewhat antiquated profile of the squash player to a more dynamic, powerful, modern athletic one.

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  • This rather antiquated system is, however, a crucial part of the setting of prices for metal commodities throughout the world.

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  • Nevertheless, given the rapid advance of mobile phone technology, they look adequately antiquated to meet many purchasers ' needs.

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  • Brand-new institutions on Western models were gradually growing up among the cumbrous, antiquated, wornout machinery of old Muscovy; and new men, like Menshikov, Goloykin, Apraksin, Osterman, Kurakin, Tolstoy, Shafirov, Prokopovich, Yaguszhinsky, Yavorsky, all capable, audacious, and brimful of new ideas, were being trained under the eye of the great regenerator to help him to carry on his herculean task.

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  • Many people still Cherish the antiquated belief that black and green teas are grown upon different varieties of the tea-plant, which is quite a mistake, the difference being merely one of preparation.

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  • The parish church of St Nicholas, an antiquated cruciform structure with curious Elizabethan work in the north transept, and monuments of the Chichester family, was originally a chapel or oratory dependent on a Franciscan monastery.

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  • Up to 1896 the sulphur industry was in a state of crisis due to the competition of pyrites, to the subdivision of the mines, to antiquated methods, and to a series of other causes which occasioned violent oscillations in and a continual reduction of prices.

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  • Scholars in England, America and Denmark, as well as in Germany, have taken part in this great enterprise, and though the completion of it may be far off, the collections of classified material already made are very valuable for consultation.i At present Egyptologists depend on Heinrich Brugschs admirable but somewhat antiquated Wrterbuch and on Levis useful but entirely uncritical Vocabolario.

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  • Complete state control of the insane and the introduction of modern hospital and curative treatment in the state asylums (or hospitals) are gradually taking the place of county care for the insane and of antiquated custodial treatment in and political control of the state asylums - changes largely due to the action of Governor Deneen, who appointed in 1906 a Board of Charities pledged to reform.

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  • Agriculture, which is carried on even in the mountain districts by means of laboriously constructed terraces, is antiquated in its methods.

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  • The doctors of the universities were too wedded to their antiquated manuals and methods, too satisfied with dullness, too proud of titles and diplomas, too anxious to preserve ecclesiastical discipline and to repress mental activity, for a genial spirit of humanism to spread freely.

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  • The old Finnish constitution, although precious to those whose only protection it was, was an antiquated and not very efficient instrument of government.

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  • These are all to a great extent antiquated, their errors being repeated in almost all subsequent accounts of the subject.

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  • The antiquated Riksdag, where the privileged estates predominated, while the cultivated middle class was practically unrepresented, had become an insuperable obstacle to all free development; but, though the Riksdag of 1840 itself raised the question, the king and the aristocracy refused to entertain it.

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  • Formerly wheat was grown chiefly in the region of long rainless summers, and the ripened grain was thrown upon uncovered earth floors and threshed by horses driven about over the straw, but this antiquated process was not suited to the climate and enterprise of the more southern provinces, and the modern threshing-machine has been introduced.

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  • In the meantime much antiquated legislation which tended to restrict trade and industry was abolished; roads, canals and drainage works were carried out.

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  • His diffuseness and the antiquated character of his matter and diction, have, however, come to be regarded as difficulties in the way of study, and he is more renowned than read.

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  • Antiquated refining processes are also used in the manufacture of an inferior white sugar, but the quantity produced is small, and it is unable to compete with beet-sugar from Germany.

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  • Walker, the superintendent of the census, who administered it, as "clumsy, antiquated and barbarous."

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  • Many of the arguments by which the Sceptics enforced their ad vocacy of a suspense of judgment are antiquated in type, but many also are, within the limits of the individualistic theory of knowledge, quite unanswerable.

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  • A very good article, now somewhat antiquated, is Schlottmann's " Schrift and Schriftzeichen " in Riehm's Handworterbuch des biblischen Altertums (1884, reprinted 1894).

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