Why would anyone want to listen to a stale rendition of an obsolete piece when it was so easy to get fresh music?
As a different form of cooperation occurs in this proposal, a self-sustainable agriculture community emerges, transforming the King Abdullah canal, which is already nearing the end of its useful life span, into an obsolete piece of infrastructure.
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Apart from that heavenly dome, the facility had a whole library of starry video material to play with, not to mention the Zeiss Universarium, an obsolete piece of astronomical projection equipment that was simply too eye-catching not to build into the show.
At the same time there has generally been a sense of modernising forces at work, of a flushing out into the light from the dark days of the 70s and 80s when football was pretty much left to rot and fester like an obsolete piece of industrial plant.
The useless, obsolete piece of unsustainably white Apple plastic weighed heavy in my bag and began to chafe my shoulder.
As New York Times critic Sam Anderson wrote in the exhibition catalogue: "We don't know if it was named after a cactus or a lovesick girl or an obsolete piece of sailing equipment".
In a game where the best teams now field 11 technically excellent No 10s who, rather than pass to each other, simply teleport the ball via an invisible web of telekinesis – thanks again, Pep Guardiola, for ruining English football – Charlie Adam is an ever-more obsolete piece of equipment, with his crunching tackles and hardy brutality.
Complications arise when particular monitors become obsolete ("No piece of technology lasts forever," Deborah said), installation instructions are made for art museums instead of homes, and the works themselves incorporate different mediums of ranging complexity for display.
But these front-engined museum pieces were obsolete even before they raced for the first time, a new generation of mid-engined cars from Cooper dashing their hopes of success.
