Sentence examples for obsolete measures from inspiring English sources

Most of the charter concerns feudal financial arrangements (socage, burgage, and scutage), obsolete measures and descriptions of land and of husbandry (wapentakes and wainages), and obscure instruments for the seizure and inheritance of estates (disseisin and mort d'ancestor).

Washington's obsolete measure looks only at the cost of food relative to income.

ESOTERIC GADGETS SALE A few hundred obsolete measuring devices with cryptic dials will be auctioned on Saturday at Skinner Inc., in Marlborough, Mass.

However, the petabyte, or 1000 terabytes, is quickly becoming an obsolete unit for measuring the amount of information in the world.

Technology, specifically the rapid rise of the birth control pill, made anti-birth control measures obsolete over night.

But apparently, these guidelines do not reflect the practice of every-day ability assessment, as the perennial use of test measures with obsolete norms suggests [17].

(The expression "mcg" is also the symbol for an obsolete CGS unit of measure known as the "millicentigram", which is equal to 10µg).

He pioneered standardized measurement through his table of proportions based on the French pouce, a now-obsolete unit of measure slightly longer than an inch.

Amidst the mirrors, the gleaming weight machines, the whir of ellipticals and treadmills, it looked conspicuously medieval, primitive, even a bit sinister, as though it were part of an intricate and now obsolete system of weights and measures, or a weapon used by the barbarians when they stormed Rome.

A deal agreed in July, including a second bail-out for Greece with a "voluntary" contribution from creditors, recapitalisation of banks and more flexibility for the EFSF, is still struggling through national parliaments; and, in any case, these measures are already obsolete.

The clock is not exactly obsolete -- time is still measured approximately the same way, and Mars is enjoying a resurgence in popularity.