Sentence examples for an old system of from inspiring English sources

Pakistan recently announced that it was reviving an old system of ration cards for cheap wheat.

Hydrothermal deposits formed at shallow depths below a boiling hot spring system are commonly referred to as epithermal, a term retained from an old system of classifying hydrothermal deposits based on the presumed temperature and depth of deposition.

He has just installed a gleaming new Swedish milking parlour, replacing an old system of pipes and pumps that, to the amateur eye, seemed to be held together by rust and cobwebs.

According to Dr. Edward N. Peters, canonist at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, however, Gregory's edict was part of an older system of canon law that was abrogated in 1918 (which is not to say the Catholic Church would now recommend wagering on the next pope).

(This was inspired by an old system for naming moons of the outer planets, such as "Jupiter IV" for Callisto).

It is another form of price support, economists say, a vestige of an old system that encouraged overproduction of food and one that the E.U. authorities hope to end by 2013.

"We've got an old system that is in need of a lot of attention," said Michael Novakowski, chief financial officer for the New York Department of Transportation.

None that I'm aware of yet, but it is clearly an old system long overdue for an infusion of disruptive new approaches.

"And I think what you're seeing is the last gasp of an old system.

"The mini-districts are a rehash of an old system that didn't work," Ms. Harris said.

But there is nothing in the regulations to compel getting rid of an old system before its time.