Sentence examples for the anachronistic system from inspiring English sources

In a post on Tuesday, Dan Gillmor, the director of the Center for Citizen Media, said the decision would open the prizes to journalists "excluded in the past due to the anachronistic system that had ruled".

States should scrap this anachronistic system and replace it with a "fully open/top two" primary.

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.

It is time for May to restore public faith in the anachronistic honours system, before it becomes a euphemism for cronyism.

The only thing that is holding us back is the anachronistic political system and the received opinion among the public that democracy threatens progress.

Someday, perhaps, our anachronistic system of picking Presidents will be brought into line with the fundamental American idea of political equality among citizens.

Together they describe an anachronistic system, one that has failed to keep up.

The lawsuits are putting some pressure on lawmakers in Washington, as well as in state capitols and county courthouses, to work quickly to find money to revamp an embarrassingly anachronistic system.

Although not covered in your article, many of the same arguments in favor of standardization could be made in favor of switching to the metric system, from the anachronistic and downright goofy system we now use.

And unlike Eminem, Skinner never refers to his whiteness in his songs; he more often addresses the anachronistic British class system.

They do a better job of scrutinising laws than MPs, debate more interesting subjects (on inheritance tax last week, on Chinese investment in Africa this week) and often produce better reports.Yet even though the reforms seem to have made the Lords bolder, the system looks anachronistic and untidy.