Sentences with phrase «archaic system as»

«Behind the ostensible façade of Jeff Koons» art world triumphs and record - breaking auction prices,» a filing by litigator Aaron Richard Golub charges, «lurks a well - oiled machine, more specifically an established, archaic System as old as the hills applied to the art world to exploit art collectors» desire to own Jeff Koons sculptures.»

An excerpt of the document reads: «Behind the ostensible façade of Jeff Koons's art world triumphs and record - breaking auction prices, lurks a well - oiled machine, more specifically an established, archaic System as old as the hills applied to the art world to exploit art collectors» desire to own Jeff Koons sculptures.

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The traditional process used to settle accounts and clear trades is «slow, archaic and high cost,» said the CSE's chief executive Richard Carleton, particularly compared to the other instant financial transaction systems used today, such as digital payments.

Moreover, in Europe, Italy's new Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, has taken a different tack than his French neighbors by acknowledging that sustainable growth does not come from government spending programs but rather from policies such as labor market flexibility, job training and simplification of Italy's archaic civil justice system.

As with any myth, new revelations are moulded into the archaic system, in this case the Bible / God the Creator.

They are there because of an archaic bail - bond system that favors the professional criminal (who counts bail as a business expense) and the affluent.

Nothing so clearly unveils Hegel's system as an apocalyptic system as does this ending, but such an ultimate ending is unique to apocalypticism, for even if it parallels archaic visions of eternal return, it wholly differs from all primordial vision in knowing an absolute and final ending, an ending which is apocalypse itself.

And yeah, apparently a lot of the «colonization» was derived from «superiority complex», such as calling something «backward and archaic system» and that without even talking about why it was / is considered such and without talking about what is supposedly better in the supposedly superior system, apparently in which education (respectivly mish - mash thereof) is a lot only applied when it serves some lower motive / s.

Thus emerged rational religion as opposed to archaic systems of meaning.

Blair Horner, Executive Director of NYPIRG, said, «New York ranks consistently as one of the nation's worst states in terms of voter participation, driven by our archaic voter registration and election administration systems.

As New York surveyed the damage, there came calls for state lawmakers to change the state's «archaic voter registration system» to address potential further disenfranchisement in the democratic process for some citizens.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, calling the state's utility system «archaic and obsolete,» continued to blast LIPA officials for a «failed» and slow - moving response, as tens of thousands of customers remained without power Thursday.

The lives system feels a bit archaic as well, as they're basically meaningless; losing all of them just causes a little inconvenience to you as you go back to the minigame you were on.

In some ways Ni No Kuni II feels like a game that's struggling to find its identity as it clings to archaic designs from yesteryear (restricted save points, a chibi - style overworld, fetch quests, and level grinding) while also innovating in clear ways (fluid real - time combat, seamless exploration to combat transitions, liberal fast traveling, and a creative kingdom management system.)

It's impossible to picture how the United States will radically upgrade the quality of its three - million - member K - 12 teacher cadre, attract more able people to enter and stick with this field, ensure needy kids» access to the best instructors, or span the curriculum with people who really know their subjects as long as this archaic, civil - service pay system persists.

I was a hotshot rookie teacher who looked at the «step - and - lane» system of pay as archaic.

These archaic medical training procedures are carried out despite the existence of sophisticated humane alternatives, such as TraumaMan System ®, a life - like mannequin used to practice first - aid and surgery.

Modern medicine seems to be pretty archaic by working against the immune system as opposed to working in collaboration with animal or human immune systems.

Having played the later games before the earlier ones, I don't quite like the early ones as much as most people, there's a lot of archaic elements (I.E. the save and inventory systems) that really should've been updated for the 21st century.

I don't think Game Freak would go back to a system as archaic as teaching Pokemon certain moves in order to move past certain obstacles no matter how terrible the moves are.

The lives system feels a bit archaic as well, as they're basically meaningless; losing all of them just causes a little inconvenience to you as you go back to the minigame you were on.

As a result, he called the practice of awarding credit based on first touch an «archaic system.»

He said the lack of spending has resulted in paper - based and physically outdated and even decrepit courthouses «that operate in the stone age» and a justice system in all fields — from civil and criminal to family law — that users describe as «archaic,» «outdated» and «slow.»

As though an archaic system of judge - made rules is trapping lawyers in the 19th century.

Although we might want to see the American justice system as more enlightened than North Korea's, when it comes to theft sentencing, Virginia's law is archaic and out of whack.

Ripple looks at the payment systems of Paypal and Mastercard as rather archaic and outdated at this point.