10 sentences with 'archaic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word archaic and other words derived from it.
• « The values set out in the Homeric poems spoke to the Greeks of the archaic era of how they determined what was good and desirable in human behaviour in general. »
• « Thanks to the Olympics, the date 776 BCE is often used as the definitive break between the dark and archaic ages of Greek civilisation. »
• « Just as torture came to be seen by almost all Enlightenment thinkers as not only cruel, but archaic and irrational, so slavery went from being an unquestioned economic necessity to a repugnant form of continuing injustice. »
• « The reason Britain was by far the leading industrial power is that its parliament was full of believers in the principles of free trade, which meant that commercial enterprises were not hindered by archaic restrictions or cultural prejudices. »
• « They often regarded workers as little better than animals, but some also regarded the old nobles as corrupt, immoral and increasingly archaic. »
• « Likewise, most liberals favoured the abolition of archaic economic interference by the state, including legal monopolies on trade (for example, in shipping between colonies) and the monopolies enjoyed by the remaining craft guilds - the "right" to engage in commercial exchange unhindered by antiquated laws was also part of the liberal paradigm. »
• « Many bourgeois saw the old order as an archaic throwback, something that limited both their own ability to make money and society's possibilities for further progress. At the same time, they defined themselves by the fact that they did not work with their hands to earn a living; they were neither farmers, craftsmen nor industrial workers. »
• « Disgusted by what they saw as Sultan Abdulhamit's hopelessly archaic approach, they launched a successful coup in 1909 and set out to remake the empire as a modern, secular and distinctly Turkish (rather than diverse) state. »
• « 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. »