Sentence examples for Obsolete idea from inspiring English sources

So, we have to get away from this obsolete idea of the two leaders meeting and deciding everything.

Second, by bringing the whole grubby business into disrepute, the leak of memos from the Ceremonial Office seemed to hasten the end of an institution that, in its present form, does nothing but perpetuate an obsolete idea of Britain.

Think the cabbage shredder described this weekend in the Times ("Equipped with a razor-sharp blade inserted into a stout board, he charged a penny a head to slice cabbages into the raw material for sauerkraut") is a totally obsolete idea?

They, too, are enthralled with an obsolete idea: Keynesianism the belief that government spending and easy money can lastingly and constructively animate an economy.

"Knowing something is probably an obsolete idea.

I want to surround myself with people who love their country unconditionally but who are not bound to old and obsolete ideas".

Unintentionally, it reinforces straight-and-narrow and increasingly obsolete ideas about what boys should and shouldn't be – if they don't conform to that, then they "must" be gay.

As the historian Hugh Trevor-Roput put it 40 years ago, about a different regime, "A single personal despot can prolong obsolete ideas beyond their natural term, but the change of generations must ultimately carry them away".

Politicians with obsolete ideas, of whom there are many in the country, even invoked an old Indian fear that is not widely perceived anymore — the ghost of the East India Company, the British firm that came to trade with India and ended up ruling it.

"In fact, when it comes to the economy and the current crisis in confidence, the president and his Republican friends in Congress have responded with timidity instead of toughness, with obsolete ideas and outdated ideologies and with special favors for special interests".

Brands are buying technologies built on obsolete ideas of how to market their products.