Sentence examples for costly legacy from inspiring English sources

Few companies suffer from the costly "legacy systems" that are common in the West.

One2One is still living with the costly legacy of its PersonalCall tariff which offered subscribers unlimited free off-peak calls at weekends and evenings.

"It is not very complicated these days to have a credit-card or a mobile-banking platform .In some respects, African banks are gaining a leg up on international rivals as they install brand new computer systems from scratch, without having to patch together costly legacy systems that have been around since the 1960s.

Days before the report's release, as she and the commission worked out the last details, she spoke soberly of the lessons learned and apparently forgotten by NASA, of the costly legacy of NASA's "faster, better, cheaper" policy, and of her own feelings toward the shuttle.

But the page already looks impressive enough to throw a mild scare into the more costly legacy systems i.e., the human beings who program the content at other Web sites.

This is Centralia.' " The town, whose hills are wispy with smoke and steam in cold, wet weather, epitomizes one of the costly legacies of coal mining.

Today, a new and much smaller company, Montana Rail Link, runs trains through town and operates the roundhouse and mechanical shop — careful not to replicate the costly environmental legacy of its predecessor.

Thus old-line TV looks cumbersome and costly, with its legacy of satellites and towers, hundreds of TV stations and cable networks, million-dollar budgets and spoiled stars, and a need to reach big audiences.

In Europe, Telecom Italia is still paying for its costly leveraged buyouts, a legacy of the bankrupt, debt-fueled mentality that has brought Italy and the world economy to the brink, he said.

Promising to do nothing about genocide is easy when you're looking for votes, but doing nothing when you are in the Oval Office can be costly to a presidential legacy.

Revel competes against companies like Square but also PayPal, First Data and many more in offering a point-of-sale solution that small and larger business owners can run from an iPad app — bypassing a lot of legacy and costly specialised equipment and necessary deals with a longer chain of banking partners.