Sentence examples for archaic nature from inspiring English sources

Others will be struck more by the archaic nature of the Vicksburg campaign.

But today, even the department of defence has recognised – at least on paper – the archaic nature of this presumption.

But it is the archaic nature of the current franchise for the common councillors, dating from the 1850s, that has attracted ridicule over the years.

The rise and fall of Parmalat illustrates the archaic nature of corporate Italy compared with business in other Western industrial powers.

The women hope to trigger a trial to showcase the archaic nature of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act – the legislation which makes abortion in Northern Ireland illegal except in extremely rare circumstances.

Kathan Brown, director, Crown Point Press, California One day in January 1980, we had a visitor to Crown Point Press who had nothing in his background to prepare him for either John Cage or the archaic nature of etching.

Kevin McGrath's arguments for the nature of archaic kingship envisioned by the poets of the Mahabharata as one in which 'sovereignty' is of a cooperative rather than absolute nature are persuasive and eye-opening.

While still a teenager, she was arrested and charged with a Crime Against Nature, an archaic Louisiana law originally designed to penalize sex acts associated with gays and lesbians.

It insists on certainty and unambiguity, and so is at war with the probabilistic and indeterminate nature of the most primitive and archaic components of the universe.

They charged that he made uncritical generalizations; ignored rigorous procedures of verification; favoured archaic and Asian religions (especially Hinduism) and nature-oriented peasant-based phenomena of "cosmic religion" (including "cosmic Christianity"); and interjected metaphysical and theological assumptions into his studies.

Myths of archaic traditions generally imply a conception of the world, nature, and man in terms of cyclic time.