Sentence examples for obsolete purpose from inspiring English sources

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Thus, in the view of the four dissenting justices, the constitutional right to own a gun was not an individual right, analogous to the freedom of religion, the freedom of speech or the right to counsel, but an instrumental right designed for a very specific and now largely obsolete purpose.

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Definitively, any Jewish organization that takes a poll before publicizing its position on the matter of the day has rendered itself obsolete for purposes of leadership.

This frustrated many users who invested significant amounts of money into the program only to have their hardware be obsolete for bigadv purposes shortly after.

We think that evaluation of specific hypotheses, well-designed sampling programs, and methods such as mark recapture and ratio sampling are more likely to provide reliable inference than re-analysis of old data sets that were collected for other purposes and obsolete methods (i.e., counting individuals on single occasions) that are known to be flawed.

"This tower embraces the problems of overpopulation, farm production, oxygen generation, and the re-purposing of obsolete infrastructure," the team explains in their pitch.

The prestige of the U.S. Navy, which is broadly questioned as gunboat diplomacy in Latin America, is hardly a reason to defend a base whose purposes are obsolete.

"The old Pan Am Worldport terminal at J.F.K. served this region for more than a half century, but is obsolete for 21st-century aviation purposes," said Ron Marsico, a spokesman for the authority.

The financial incentive that usually drives private sector drug development is weakened by the knowledge that more profitable all-purpose antibiotics become obsolete more quickly because of the likely faster emergence of resistance.

Wrigley considered the choice of Murphy as his cohort "a particularly happy one" but called the aircraft they were assigned "an obsolete type, even for training purposes", while conceding that "it was structurally sound and airworthy".

Moreover, those losing jobs cannot simply be reprogrammed instantly to support education or some other virtuous purpose; their skills are obsolete.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, NATO's primary purpose has become largely obsolete.

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