Sentence examples for shunned older from inspiring English sources

Holiday sales were strongest for new digital products while consumers shunned older technology.

Research publicised in May suggested children are increasingly shunning older people and therefore depriving themselves of a rich seam of wisdom and history.

The Radio Centre, the industry trade body for commercial radio, said Radio 2 was "prioritising popularity not public purposes" by shunning older listeners and failing to provide sufficient news and current affairs coverage.

During 2001, while the industry switches from 64-bit game consoles to more versatile and memory-rich 128-bit platforms (Nintendo's GameCube and Microsoft's Xbox are due this coming fall), the gamemakers' sales may be sluggish as consumers shun older titles.

Obviously, by shunning old people.

Even the multiplexes once shunned by older people are changing.

"They shunned the old-style machine-constituency politics in favor of a management approach to government".

It's not the first time he has shunned his old team-mate.

In the months after his order to integrate the public schools in New Orleans in 1960, Judge Wright was shunned by old friends.

Donald Mitchell, in his recently published biography of Morel, "The Politics of Dissent", tells how Morel became so used to being shunned by old friends that when a former journalist colleague in military uniform greeted him in the street, he was so surprised and grateful that he burst into tears.

The modern kwadril has declined in popularity; it had come to be seen as a symbol of colonialism around the time of independence, and was shunned as old-fashioned and out-of-date.