Sentence examples for obsolescent from inspiring English sources

He portrays knowledge and experience being cast aside as so much obsolescent bunk; the vision of a cleared-out library fits what he says to perfection.

He played in Hungary's first game of the World Cup finals in Stockholm four years later, but looked slow and obsolescent.

Andrew Krepinevich of the Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a military think-tank, argues that the MDA should be concentrating on research, rather than locking itself into a system that may prove obsolescent.

The lodestar by which the free world has navigated since the late 1940s, the containment of Russia and of communism, is becoming obsolescent, because of that policy's very success.

Zhou Xiaochuan said there was a need to reset "the obsolescent unipolar world economic order".

The short answer is "yes, but".Given that America's defence spending could soon equal that of the rest of the world combined, it may seem frivolous to ask whether it could defeat the obsolescent armies of Iraq and North Korea.

These have disguised a mix of problems including some, or indeed all, of the following: dodgy balance sheets, cumbersome structures, malevolent shareholders, over-stretched (or plain incompetent) management and obsolescent machinery.ZPS, for example, one of the Czech Republic's biggest engineering groups, has increased its sales fivefold and its exports sevenfold since 1989.

But he was foolishly in the thrall of obsolescent ideologies, the communism of China, a country he visited a dozen times, and the former fascism of Japan.

Indeed, it could be obsolescent only a few years after it enters service.

This week's Free exchange column highlights research by David Autor at MIT that suggests that is an obsolescent view of the production function:A firm's challenge is to decide how to allocate... between capital and workers of varying skills, according to their respective comparative advantages.

Analysts at Booz Allen Hamilton tried in 2007 to estimate how much investment would be needed in water infrastructure to modernise obsolescent systems and meet expanding demand between 2005 and 2030.