Sentence examples for on the obsolete from inspiring English sources

Again and again, he takes the perspective of one looking back on failed utopias, on the obsolete commodities that were once must-haves.

By the 1970s, when I first scornfully giggled my way through it, Brief Encounter, which gets a release this Friday, seemed like a primer on the obsolete sexual mores of a society long vanished, like Pompeii or Atlantis.

The Government Digital Service will not extend its £5.5m deal with Microsoft to extend support for Windows XP, leaving government computers that still run on the obsolete operating system at risk from hackers.

This study therefore sought to improve on the obsolete and high error-prone approach by taking advantage of remotely sensed data and GIS technologies, exploring geospatial approach for population estimation and Census track demarcation in Hwolshe, Plateau State.

Some test-givers claim that IQ classification categories such as "profoundly gifted" are meaningful, but those are based on the obsolete Stanford-Binet Third Revision (Form L-M) test.

By October 1943 Soviet authorities were anticipating the start of mass production of the powerful IS-2 heavy tank; as a result the idea of a specialized artillery tank based on the obsolete KV chassis was dropped.

Together with her sister ship, she sank the hulk of the obsolete battleship on 7 September 1924 during gunnery practice in Tokyo Bay in accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty.

On May 2 the obsolete Argentine cruiser General Belgrano (purchased from the United States after World War II) was sunk outside the war zone by a British nuclear-powered submarine.

Bill Weiss, who works at the shop, added, "You know how many more sinkers we're going to sell?" Correction: August 28 , 2001 Tuesday An article on Wednesday about the obsolete Redbird subway cars that were dumped in the ocean off Delaware to serve as an artificial reef misspelled the name of the city where they were manufactured.

On 8 May 1926, the obsolete submarine was used as a target, and destroyed with an influence torpedo.

LaBranche & Company, the largest specialist firm at the New York Stock Exchange, has hired an investment bank to explore the company's options as electronic trading renders market makers on the floor obsolete.