Sentence examples for obsolete work from inspiring English sources

To close its budget gap, the authority has renegotiated contracts, revised obsolete work practices and announced plans to lay off thousands of transit workers throughout the system.

But the association has quietly circulated a 51-page report saying that the expiration of 30 union contracts in June presents a chance to reform the $25 billion unionized construction industry by eliminating what the report calls obsolete work rules and featherbedding; by adopting a standard eight-hour day for all building trades; and by reducing benefit packages.

Entwistle's piece is a brainy buddy film of sorts, drawing together fictional depictions of three New York artists from that time — Robert Smithson, Gordon Matta-Clark and a young Dan Graham — and sending them on a journey to New Jersey to visit some of their seminal, civically obsolete works.

While New York City was troubled by economic collapse and rising crime, encumbered by obsolete studio work practices, and uncomfortable with the studied informality of post-hippie America, Los Angeles crested on California's new fashionability and economic buoyancy based in part on the Cold War strength of the aerospace industry.

Mario Caserini's "Last Days of Pompeii" (1913, 88 minutes, $29.95), adapted from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel, chronicles that period in A.D. 79 through a series of tableaus with titles; the tableau technique was soon to be made obsolete by works like D. W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation".

So in this bizarro world where we are not crippled by our obsolete view of work, the vast majority of us would work only at things we love.

Then computers made that line of work obsolete.

The exacting scholarly standards of a later age rendered much of his work obsolete.

But professional photographers have been grumbling about amateurs rendering their work obsolete since 1888, when George Eastman introduced the Kodak camera with the slogan, "You press the button, we do the rest".

The essence of his theory is that education will be the major industry of the future, for automation increasingly will make the old concept of work obsolete and everyone will spend more and more of his non-leisure time in research and reëducation to keep up with a constantly accelerating technology.

Obama didn't name them all, but a decent list would look something like this: new technologies that have made some blue-collar work obsolete; a slowing in the nation's educational attainment; the shriveling of labor unions; the increase in one-parent families, which are far less economically secure; and the rise of other countries that have huge low-wage work forces.