It is an outmoded distribution system left over from the 20th century, when it often actually worked.
The house receives water from city wells; the yard is irrigated with untreated river water, a system left over from the area's agrarian past.
Tay Ninh is in a tropical, agricultural area, and besides the Cao Dai temple and the nearby Cu Chi tunnel system left over from the Vietnam War, there is little to draw tourists.
O'Brien had ended up in the "impossible" job after David Cameron's first suggestion (the UK chooses the head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ocha, under an anachronistic system left over from the UN's foundation) of Andrew Lansley was rejected.
The introduction of jurors is part of a larger effort to transform a judicial system left over from the Japanese colonial era and the military rule that followed, when the courts were often employed as a weapon against political opponents, into one more suited to South Korea's now vigorous democracy.
Comets are dirty chunks of ice in the outer regions of the solar system left over from the formation of the planets.
The restriction of the financing environment is rooted in the highly centralized financial system left over from the planned economy during the economy's transformation that was viewed as inappropriate for SMEs (Lin and Li 2001) and which discriminated against SMEs' loans (Lin et al. 2003).
At a cost 30-10030-100percenter than other nations were paying for universal health care, the America health care "system" left over 40 million uninsured.
A streamlined military of the kind championed by Robert Gates, the defense secretary, would probably be better prepared for the challenges ahead than a military burdened by the costs of obsolete weapons systems and bases left over from the cold war.
First, and most importantly, we know that comets – and there are billions of them in the outer regions of our solar system – are debris left over from the formation of that solar system, between 4bn and 5bn years ago: they are frozen relics from a bygone age.
