8 sentences with 'obsolete'
Example sentences and phrases with the word obsolete and other words derived from it.
• « In the 16th century, the study of the classics became an essential part of the elite's own education, joining the medieval scholastic traditions (or becoming obsolete) in schools and universities. »
• « Moreover, the mandate for the committee's very existence - to protect the Revolution against its foreign and domestic enemies - became somewhat obsolete when French forces won important victories against Prussia and Austria in the summer of 1794. »
• « Craft skills slowly but surely became obsolete and, as noted above, it took until the second half of the 19th century for socialist movements to grow large and strong enough to bring about significant improvements in the daily lives of most workers. »
• « Nationalists argued that war itself could become obsolete. After all, if each "people" lived in "their" nation, what would be the point of territorial conflict? »
• « Liberals shared the conviction that freedom in all its forms - freedom from the despotic rule of kings, from the obsolete privilege of nobles, from economic interference and religious intolerance, from occupational restrictions and limitations on speech and assembly - could only improve the quality of society and the well-being of its members. »
• « After the First World War, the old order of monarchs and nobles was almost obsolete, with noble titles being no more than archaic remnants of the past in almost every country. In addition, of course, technology continued to advance apace. »
• « In this new situation, some large, slow and obsolete cells found advantages in allowing themselves to be parasitised by smaller but aerobic, and therefore hyperactive, cells. The invaders secured their dinner, but the invaded cells enjoyed, in return, such a bestial surplus of energy that they ended up adopting the manic dwarfs as an integral part of their own organisms: mitochondria were born. »