Sentence examples for idea whose time has gone from inspiring English sources

It's an idea whose time has gone.

Whatever the sentiment in Remploy's factories, ministers say they are an idea whose time has gone.

But that, more and more, seems like an idea whose time has gone.

The specialists might soon find that their cosy, centuries-old trading system is an idea whose time has gone.

To pretend, in the absence of any other revelation, that a consensual adult sex life exposes a person to blackmail or makes them unfit for office is an idea whose time has gone – and good riddance.

Even more than they agree about most other things, the main political parties are united in their conviction that multiculturalism is a perniciously naive idea whose time has gone, or ought never to have come at all.Last week, for example, David Cameron, the Tory leader, warned an unenraptured audience of Islamic leaders about the dangers of "cultural separatism" in Muslim communities.

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Birthright citizenship was a mistake whose time has gone.

The concept was carefully modified so as to avoid giving prickly sovereign states the idea that they were about to be invaded at will by moralising outsiders.In this section An idea whose time has come and gone?

In recent years the medium has been exploited in ever darker ways by petty warlords as well as by big-time tyrants.In this section An idea whose time has come and gone?

But when he got them together to ask who was choreographing their effort he met an embarrassed silence.In this section An idea whose time has come and gone?