Sentence examples for older use of from inspiring English sources

Several years earlier, however, on a trip to Florence, I'd had a memorable initiation into a much older use of that technique.

In an even older use of ion exchange, salts are removed from sugar juices to raise the yield of crystallized sugar.

(By the way, "hackers" here is used as "people who break into systems without the owners' permission". The older use, of "someone who plays around with what computers can do", has long since been subsumed into the newer one).

This is commonly called "keying" – a term derived from the older use of Morse Code in telecommunications – and several keying techniques exist (these include phase-shift keying, frequency-shift keying, and amplitude-shift keying).

Rather than dichotomizing patients as younger versus older, use of ten-year age groups allowed for a more detailed analysis of treatment by age.

Beach holidays built on widespread older uses of the beach for health, enjoyment, and religious rites, but it was the British who formalized and commercialized them.

Consequently, there are many different accounts of the Liliaceae in the literature and older uses of the term occur commonly.

One step in that direction has been the large-scale use of military contract workers supplied by private companies, which can be seen as a revival of the age-old use of mercenaries.

Federal regulators today ordered the nation's stock exchanges to begin quoting at least some share prices in dollars and cents by July 3, requiring them to abandon the 200-year-old use of fractions by year's end.

There is an idea that is slowly working its way through state legislative chambers to modernize the centuries-old use of Electoral College and go to a more direct election of the president.

Historically, some alternatives to the word evolution have become established because they contain old uses of the word.