The phrase "outdated customs" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is used to refer to traditions, practices, or beliefs that are no longer relevant or appropriate in the present time. Example: "In today's modern society, many traditional and outdated customs are being challenged and reevaluated."
But tax evasion is made easy by lax and outdated customs controls.
He said they believed that he could provide the voice of the "common man" the university needed to free itself from its image as a crusty, if brilliant, redoubt for outdated customs and entitlements.
Abandon old and outdated customs," the billboards declare.
Expectant mothers and other ethnic minority care-seekers were said to '… follow outdated customs and practices, where there have been cases when the conditions were too serious to cure once they were admitted to hospital' (Kinh nurse, district hospital).
Surely this too would be seen as a modern update on an outdated custom.
A threatened boycott was thus averted, following a local campaign to stop what many saw as the offensive and outdated custom of dressing up as Zulu warriors.
Zhang Xin, a 26-year-office worker who waited Wednesday on the corner of the CCTV complex for a ride, said setting off fireworks was a dangerous, increasingly outdated custom that should be prohibited downtown.
"Unless the general population is sufficiently enlightened to reject outdated traditional customs and the government puts in place effective strategies to alleviate poverty, we can hardly solve this problem," Bisimba told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
She created controversy by eliminating outdated social customs such as the refusal to receive pregnant women at the White House, and by inviting all Congressional wives, including the wife of African-American Congressman Oscar DePriest from Chicago, to the White House.
Despite the lack of any evidence for the benefits of male circumcision, the majority of circumcised men appear perfectly happy with the fact that their organ has been chopped and disfigured in order to satisfy outdated religious customs, cultural traditions or medical myths.
But many of those systems tend to be outdated or custom-built, meaning that the information held within — which includes class lists, attendance, and grades — can't be shared or accessed by outside developers.
