Sentence examples for an ancient problem from inspiring English sources

As many readers noted, superstition is both an ancient problem and a going concern.

This is an ancient problem, too, in that happiness and goodness are very hard to capture on the page.

As companies tie their databases together, and try to cross-sell products to a customer who sees a single common front, they run up against a new version of an ancient problem: how to motivate one salesman in a company to hand over a customer to another.

The chaos of diffuse authority is of course an ancient problem in human life.

The problem of functional replacement of an upper limb is an ancient problem: historically humans have replaced a hand lost in war or accidents with a prosthesis for cosmetic, vocational, or personal autonomy reasons.

Melancholy, as it was called until the 20th century, is of course a very ancient problem, and was described in the fifth century BC by Hippocrates.

If the theorising in Johannesburg is to be believed Holland have come up with an ingenuous solution to the ancient problem of underachievement.

Not only was Al studying a tractable instance of the ancient problem of how the mind knows reality, but he also had the coolest toy in the department — a refrigerator-size minicomputer.

They thought they had solved this ancient problem through a scientific, monistic unification.

Nevertheless, he thinks that the solution to the ancient problem is a victory.

There was an ancient geometry problem called "squaring the circle" that confounded mathematicians for ages before someone finally proved it to be an impossible task.