In 2004, Mr. Li was made party chief of Liaoning, a rust belt province in China's northeast where the restructuring of obsolete state-run industries had produced mass unemployment.
The idea that the state itself can further cosmopolitan objectives aligns with contemporary understanding of foreign policy for health that recognizes that, far from being obsolete, states have an important role in fostering global health through foreign policy [ 8, 37, 38].
As in most other states, its 30-year-old computer runs on Cobol, a language so obsolete the state must summon retirees to make changes.
In other words, in the cultural universe of Harry Potter, social sciences are as useless and obsolete as state regulation.
Ronald A. Stack, the finance authority chairman, applauded the new law but said that having it in place will not make the financial oversight board obsolete, because state law requires the agency stay in place for as long as any bonds issued for the county by the board are outstanding.
("Within the next hundred years," Mr. Talbott once wrote, "nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority").
For the density to remain constant, new particles of matter must be continually formed in the volume from space"." This is consistent with the now-obsolete Steady State model of cosmology, proposed later in 1949, and with today's modern understanding of dark energy.
Obsolete since states the version since which an obsolete concept has been deprecated.
