Sentence examples for deemed old from inspiring English sources

Forty years ago, educators and students fought side-by-side to win the right to vote for 18-year-olds, the same age group that the government had previously deemed old enough to fight in wars and pay taxes, but still too young to vote for the leaders imposing these duties upon them.

"Science" was deemed old and irrelevant; "selfie" was too new and annoying.

My grandfather let me turn the pasta machine handle, but it took years before I was deemed old enough to learn to fold.

Montague left his half brothers to fend for themselves; when they were deemed old enough he claimed them as slaves and sold the rebellious Francis.

With that lag, information was sometimes not mentioned on a local newscast because the story had been deemed old, said F.B.I. agents who unveiled the site on Wednesday at a federal office building in Lower Manhattan.

Resisting that temptation to upgrade and sticking with technology that's deemed "old hat" feels almost heroic these days, whether it's down to sentimental attachment, retro fetishism or just a stubborn unwillingness to play the game.

Her male counterpart, Jean-René (the Belgian comic actor Benoît Poelvoorde), is the middle-aged owner of the Chocolate Mill, a failing enterprise whose products are deemed old-fashioned by those in the know.

But a decade later, after the emergence of Jackson Pollock and other abstractionists, his stock fell sharply among critics, and he was deemed old-fashioned, even if his paintings continued to sell and his admirers included Winston Churchill.

While jeans and a decorative top were de rigueur for a night out until about six years ago, and wearing a dress was deemed old-fashioned and too smart, the trend for vintage clothes was one factor in making the dress cool again.

Other areas were slower to adopt the new styles – British clubs once again resisted change and stuck resolutely to kits little different from those worn before the war, and Eastern European teams continued to wear kits that were deemed old-fashioned elsewhere.

Nevada then returned to Pearl Harbor after a brief stint of occupation duty in Tokyo Bay. Nevada was surveyed and, at 32⅓ years old, she was deemed too old to be kept in the post-war fleet.