Sentence examples for obsolete areas from inspiring English sources

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Frequently over the past decade, HMR clearance plans have been underpinned by claims that these are obsolete areas of low demand where no one wants to live – claims apparently made without irony in neighbourhoods where the countless empty properties are all in council or housing association ownership and often boarded up so that people are unable to buy or rent them.

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"The transformation of the downtown Brooklyn waterfront," Mr. Pataki said, "from an obsolete maritime area into a vibrant community, begins today".

DamNation is an environmental documentary that studies how removing obsolete damns restores areas of the American countryside.

Many thousands of miles of additional waterways are suitable for the flotage of felled timber, but truck and rail transport is rendering this practice obsolete in many areas.

But commercial fishermen say the implementation of a quota-based protection system in 2010 made the conservation areas obsolete, and called on the New England Fishery Management Council, the regulating body, to renew access to the waters.

Planning for any future structural changes in a department should be undertaken, for instance leaving space for additional scanners in new buildings or earmarking obsolete or unused areas for a change in use.

In the Netherlands, the metaphor of 'rotten tooth' is common language for obsolete ugly buildings, backward areas etc., and it helps to make clear to the public what needs to be done (the urban 'dentist' will have to pull the tooth).

But the port was now rotting and increasingly obsolete, and the downtown area had been crippled by the financial crash of 1929, the development of giant shipping facilities that Manhattan couldn't accommodate and a flight of businesses to Midtown.

A municipal hospital in your area is obsolete.

"They were way ahead of us in many areas despite their obsolete equipment and bulldozer investigative techniques.

The mirrors were a component of one of the world's first early-warning systems, the London Air Defence Area, but became obsolete with the development of radar, leading to the remaining structures falling into a state of disrepair.

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