Sentence examples for antiquated state from inspiring English sources

But in its antiquated state, the apartment didn't seem worth the $350,000 asking price.

The solar energy industry has blamed the antiquated state of Britain's electricity grid for preventing new connections to the system.

Mr. Karamanlis sought to exploit discontent over unemployment, which is now at 11percentt, bloated and inefficient social services, and antiquated state monopolies.

For years, the coal boilers, which require workers to shovel truckloads of coal each winter into fiery steel furnaces, have served as a potent symbol of the antiquated state of many of the city's school buildings.

Blockchain startups are suffering from a crippling, archaic, and antiquated state regulatory system -- and it's driving innovation abroad.

But the title industry's halcyon days owe much to antiquated state laws that thwart new competition, allow prices to soar despite declining costs and force almost every home buyer to pay for insurance that most of them will never need.

The event — which took place in an antiquated state-owned arena — siphoned scarce resources from strapped law enforcement agencies and Bay Area medical centers, at a growing expense of hundreds of thousands dollars, some of it borne by taxpayers.

"Sheriffs should have gone out with high-buttoned shoes and 'Gunsmoke' -- they are about as antiquated," said State Senator George Gunther, a Republican of Stratford, the Legislature's senior member who has been trying to eliminate the sheriff system for more than 30 years.

This is one of the many reasons the college is an unfair and antiquated mechanism: States that are already underrepresented in Congress have a weaker voice in choosing the president, again violating the principle that each citizen should have an equal vote.

And this antiquated belief in state control underscores Labour's approach to public services.

She sometimes comes across as the last of the Jamesians, slipping the bonds of the New World, "affronting her destiny," as James says of Isabel Archer, yet winding up before long in a parody of the Old — in a miniature state, antiquated and fussy, where she could live in limitless style but never at ease.