Sentence examples for basically obsolete from inspiring English sources

Things haven't changed too much since then, but now we have DNA testing, making monogamous partnerships basically obsolete.

When the US Supreme Court recently ruled that portions of the Voting Rights Act are basically obsolete, it seemed to suggest that our country's racist past is just that -- in the past.

(A "phone book" is something people used to keep in their homes to look up other people's numbers, before the Internet and the dawning awareness that we didn't actually want to talk to people anymore -- because, gah, what is the point anyway? -- made them basically obsolete).

But Starace says: "These plants are basically technologically obsolete and there is very little you can do about it".

And this seismic crisis should change that, because it reveals that a lot of these people are basically defunct – obsolete in this new era of crisis.

Mr. Lu said the companies had made a series of software missteps, including "betting wrongly" with investments to prime their devices for Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 operating system, which has basically been rendered obsolete by the recent unveiling of Windows Phone 7.

It makes bluffing kinda obsolete because basically you're just gunning for rockets.

Currently, the mechanical methods used to extract virgin oils from olives are basically of two types: the discontinuous system (obsolete) and the continuous one.

She only joined seven months ago, but basically it's made the China-specific position obsolete with a restructuring of its Asia business.

So basically pre-ordered in June, and it arrived in September, just in time to be made obsolete.

And it is basically the same golf course it has been through the years, with changes that were made to keep it from becoming obsolete.