It was thought that the institution, an idea imported from the US by Brown, had become defunct, but it appears to have been revived by Osborne.
By the late 20th century the eleven-plus exams had become defunct and the vast majority of secondary-school students attended comprehensive schools, with a much smaller proportion attending grammar schools or technical schools.
Significant components such as the car body and rectifiers had to be built by Bombardier based on abandoned production lines, and many of the original manufacturers for the interior have become defunct.
The Daytime parade they once had, has now become defunct.
The Palestinian National Council (PNC), the Palestine Liberation Organisation's (PLO) parliament-in-exile, has become antiquated in composition and defunct in operation, leaving the 7.3 million-strong Palestinian diaspora and refugees voiceless.
I'm a positive person and a committed localist, but even I can see that neighbourhood plans are dead in the water, defunct before a single one has become law.
Once comparatively large and even prestigious, the Amex, says Lynn Turner, a former chief accountant for the SEC, has become the new "version of the Vancouver Stock Exchange, Canadaa's now defunct magnet for scandal and fraud.
Through his work, Mr. Lenik has become one of the region's experts on the now-defunct iron industry that supplied armament makers during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and on the prehistoric Indians who lived in the Ramapo Mountains.
