Sentence examples for on the archaic from inspiring English sources

Traditionally, women were barred from making sushi in Japan, on the archaic theory that their hands were too warm to handle raw fish.

For who in this brave new world would really shut out the new and harp on the archaic for their own young?

He will expound on the archaic waste-disposal operations that once flourished on the creek, conjuring scenes of putrescent horse carcasses floating in on barges from Manhattan and docks piled with manure three stories high.

The films themselves -- with their defiant images of oppressed geishas and sexually rebellious women -- were considered courageous attacks on the archaic Japanese national censorship board, a holdover from the postwar American occupation.

For many years, paleontologists have focused on the archaic hoofed mammal ("condylarth") group known as phenacodonts as the sister taxon of perissodactyls (Radinsky 1966, 1969; Thewissen and Domning 1992).

Both early and late datings were based on the "archaic" treatment of space.

But today, even the department of defence has recognised – at least on paper – the archaic nature of this presumption.

But the Westminster-focused class, on left and right, are "little Britishers" and "little Englanders", still hung up on defending the archaic rights of a political system that seems stuck in a timewarp.

"I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens," Mullen said during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on dropping the archaic "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

In one sentence, Free The Nipple is based on the true events of women on the front lines fighting the archaic topless laws in America.

Histria (Istros) is one of the earliest Milesian colonies founded on the Black Sea coast during the archaic period (7th c. BC).