Sentence examples for archaic principle from inspiring English sources

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But what that means to beachgoers varies, in part because the archaic principle was intended to protect activities like fishing and navigation, not building sandcastles.

Its inextricable connection to the archaic principle of primogeniture means that the next three heads of state will be stolidly monocultural: white, male and Anglican.

Hiding behind an archaic principle derived from the Middle Ages when, ostensibly ordained of God, "the King could do no wrong," is hardly the change that the people of Vieques expected from the Obama Administration.

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Popham ruled that assumpsit claims were valid, a decision called a "watershed" moment in English law, with archaic and outdated principles being overwritten by the modern and effective assumpsit, which soon became the main course of action in contract cases.

Almost a quarter-century later, Workman describes this principle as "archaic," telling the Florida Current: "All we really did by passing that law was take away some employment from some little people".

Though the terms are archaic, many say the Talmud contains founding principles that can still be applied today.

Just a few years earlier faith that one's Wall Street employer was engaged in some higher activity had seemed like principle; now it was just another one of those archaic customs, along with the edict against borrowing money you couldn't clearly repay and the belief that the customer was always right.

Macaulay reformed archaic discriminatory laws in Calcutta more out of distaste for their principles than dislike of their practical impact.

Third, I would move to create a Department of Peace, which would seek to make nonviolence an organizing principle in our society and to work with the nations of the world to make war itself archaic.

Almost archaic.

Kind of archaic".

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