Sentence examples for centuries old systems from inspiring English sources

Here we are entering the 21st Centuries but the Judicial Systems we have are centuries old systems that were not upgraded with time.

The barter idea is catching on in a number of cities in Greece during these lean economic times, returning communities to a centuries old system but with a digital twist.

These companies are disrupting centuries-old systems put in place by the establishment.

We don't have the luxury of rebuilding centuries-old systems from the ground up, but we do have the ability to radically change them.

But the century-old system has little capacity to add service.

Marvin Miller razed the century-old system of indentured servitude, leading to the zillionaire fiesta that is modern free agency.

Labour, with its traditional working-class constituency, supports the city's century-old system of publicly subsidised non-profit housing corporations, which have developed decade-long waiting lists.

But the sharp rise in weekend demand also poses an increasingly urgent challenge: how to maintain a creaking, century-old system that now knows no respite.

In 2003, the mayor tried to institute nonpartisan elections, spending millions of his own fortune to overturn the century-old system of Democratic -and Republican-dominated politics.

The lone dissenting judge, Judge Debra Ann Livingston, vigorously disagreed, arguing that by throwing out Mr. Caronia's conviction "the majority calls into question the very foundations of our century-old system of drug regulation".

The long-term goal is a complete rethinking and streamlining of a half-century-old system that is now fragmented across 27 members of the European Union and an additional 12 nearby countries.