Sentences with phrase «archaic systems of»

I haven't read Greg's book («What's the Worst That Could Happen») yet myself — I'm still, ironically, waiting for the archaic systems of the carbon - wasting publisher to ship the books to Blighty.

Water in the West is governed through archaic systems of rights, in which senior rights holders get first dibs on water supplies, which they lose to junior rights holders if they don't use them all up.

Increasing flexibility Water in the West is governed through archaic systems of rights, in which senior rights holders get first dibs on water supplies, which they lose to junior rights holders if they don't use them all up.

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

For many practicing lawyers and law professors such images represent the surface of a deeper and unamusing reality, an archaic system of legal thought.

Policy makers will begin to jettison the archaic system of awarding teachers continuing education credits and modest salary bumps for attending externally driven workshops and will turn to Digital Promise and its partners in creating microcredentials that allow teachers to drive their own high - quality professional learning — and be recognized and rewarded for it.

At Classic Ford Galveston we do not believe in the archaic system of dealerships keeping customers uninformed and off balance.

Digital formats or eBooks currently have high profit margins and are not hindered by the archaic system of print which has economic problems based on cost of production, distribution and warehousing.

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

The Ripple platform has rendered the archaic system of sending money through SWIFT or Western Union obsolete.

Not exact matches

«The archaic system, once all of the obfuscations are stripped away, exposes a garden - variety, interest - free fraudulent financial routine that hearkens the name Ponzi,» according to the suit.

«My role here is to take a lot of those learnings that I had at Airbnb where it was about transforming an archaic system that really needed a revamp — for there it was travel and here it's education,» said Modi, now AltSchool's vice president of operations and services.

Dairy, poultry and egg farming, alone among all of Canada's food production, is governed by supply management, an archaic, decades - old — and very costly — controlled - market system.

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.

In this Part II of a two - part series, we identify systemic problems with the current institutions that fund venture capital (VC) groups and propose how to change this archaic system.

In other parts of the world they have very archaic financial systems.

Georgetown Law Professor Michael Seidman says in the New York Times that we should conclude, «the American system of government is broken» not because of political divisions, but because of the Constitution «with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.»

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.

The latter, particularly, points to a religious or ritual function to these carvings, and indeed to the practice of a form of «shamanism» — that is, an archaic magical or religious belief system which sought connections between the visible and spirit worlds, and which ascribes spiritual properties to animals and natural forces.

the current state of affairs at the club is strictly due to the upper management failing to act and replace an archaic system and manager.

She is the inevitable product of a right wing Eurosceptic coup within an archaic «winner takes all» parliamentary system.

«Once again, New York's archaic voter registration system has highlighted dramatic shortcomings in the administration of elections across the state,» the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement, calling for automatic voter registration and same - day voter registration.

Far too much of the modern justice system in Britain is still wrapped up in the archaic language of the 19th century.

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.

«Each year tens of thousands of bereaved families are forced to endure lengthy delays and an archaic, unaccountable and inefficient system which also leaves the coronial service unable to fulfil its vital function of preventing unnecessary deaths.»

And because our archaic voting system tends towards the creation of safe seats, there are a lot of places where incumbents stay in position for a long time.

«It reeks of the establishment and of power; its systems are confusing — some may say archaic — and it was built at a time when my class and my sex would have been denied a place within it because we were deemed unworthy,» she said.

The UK's archaic Parliamentary system remains in dire need of reform and renewal.

«Once again, New York's archaic voter registration system has highlighted dramatic shortcomings in the administration of elections across the state,» Horner said.

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.

Proponents of the PhyloCode say the old system, originally developed by Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus before Darwin discovered natural selection, is so archaic that every taxonomic grouping needs to be redefined.

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.

The smaller screen feels nice for that type of graphics and most JRPGs are more enjoyable on portable consoles, also because of the genres» archaic save system (PS Vita's rest mode feels more suitable since it doesn't depend on external power like the PS4).

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.

Teachers in the Bristol, Va., school system are protesting the use of McGuffey's Eclectic Readers on the grounds that they are «racist, sexist, and archaic.»

• Do they understand that due to an archaic tenure system, it can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to try to rid a school system of one incompetent or criminal teacher?

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

Every American leader with any sphere of influence in whatever walk of life should see the recent ABC television report by John Stossel entitled «Stupid in America», a scathing expose of the irrational perversity that is so deeply imbedded in the American public school system and the severe damage that this archaic culture and delivery -LSB-...]

Her «robbing students» claim is based on the fact that the governor is tying a funding infusion to the elimination of the archaic, child - unfriendly, and industrial - style seniority system, in addition to a mandate to hold teachers accountable for student learning.

Long in the tooth with hard plastics and archaic infotainment, it hardly stood up to the spate of soft - touch dashes and touch screen infotainment systems found in competitor vehicles.

In our ratings of the S8, we gave it near top marks for cabin tech, an area that's mainly let down by its archaic navigation system.

Our kvetches are mostly minor issues: The keyless access system needs a lock button on the outside of the tailgate and pressing a separate button on the climate control panel to check the outside temperature is a little archaic.

Unless when you say «the industry» you mean traditional publishers with large overheads, the interests of a very small % of their top mega-bestselling authors, and struggling print bookstores whose archaic returns system makes them a financially unattractive venue for indies.

The MyiLibrary platform addresses two needs for libraries: first, it maintains a catalog of titles that rivals those of some bookstores, adding nearly 5,000 new books each month; second, it helps librarians shed the archaic search systems they've used for decades in favor of selected content from publishers.

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.

A recent hands on impressions of the PGW demo by IGN noted that while the game looks incredible and retains the essence of the original, it also retains the same stubborn camera and «archaic control system», which is quiet concerning.

They've stumbled to create a cohesive online platform for their systems, which Sony and Microsoft both did so easily at the start of the last generation — they still use an archaic Friend Code system, and there's still some nuisances with their eShop when you own multiple systems, but they've made strides in the last year with the Wii U and Miiverse.

Jeremy Parish may claim that the game is actually quite progressive, but despite new ideas and an impressive handheld design, the fact is that these new — and welcome — things are still crammed into the archaic Dragon Quest design that desperately needs more change than just multiplayer, a job system, and lots of costumes.