Sentences with phrase «rather archaic»

Ripple looks at the payment systems of Paypal and Mastercard as rather archaic and outdated at this point.

While the potential applications are as broad as voice command will allow, we've found it most useful for a rather archaic purpose: voice calling.

This semester I've been working in my school's in - house legal clinic, which has a, er, rather archaic filing system that's the antithesis of a paperless workflow.

Levying seems a rather archaic term.

However, one must note that Martin's Criminal Code notes in it's synopsis of the section that, «This rather archaic section, if used, would in all likelihood, be challenged under the Charter.»

The series seems to travel back to a different time, documenting how the African people use rather archaic practices, setting up makeshift studios in their homes or around the village.

To «toll» in duck hunting parlance is to entice or lure, a rather archaic definition of the word most associate with road and bridge fees and ringing bells.

This is a rather archaic measure in a culture that has moved on.

having experienced early child health clinics in Australia, UK and now Israel, I have found that whilst the style here seems quite paternalistic, with a lot of advice and some rather archaic and informal evaluations, it really depends on the individual nurse.

Here's the difference between you and I. I view the bible as the word of God (I know rather archaic huh) and as such it is my starting point for determining my moral absolutes.

Not exact matches

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.

ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!! It's a shame Roy Moore, etal., can't see the truth in what you say, but rather try to explain away the contradictions and archaic thought and practices of Jewish mythology.

The leaders claim to speak for «God» when all they do is rehash archaic MAN MADE dogma attributed to a «God» who more closely resembles man's feeble mind and violent nature rather than the other way around.

Sadly, as one raised a fundie Catholic, I realize that the the Catholic Church's position is rooted in the archaic and rather misogynistic idea that women are baby makers and are still the introduction of sin, and not much else.

Moreover, he goes on to praise the ancient Latin orations for giving «an other - worldly, superhuman atmosphere through their sense of age and mystery», which rather suggests that he was neither as favourable towards a vernacular Mass, nor as opposed to the use of «archaic language», as Fr Hill so confidently declares.

For example, writing of Rosmini's book The Five Wounds of the Church, in which Rosmini describes the obstacles an exclusively Latin liturgy can pose for effective evangelisation, Fr Hill not only proposes his hero as an early proponent of the vernacular Mass, but goes on to add (in a rather sly footnote) that Rosmini would also have been opposed to «the deliberate use of archaic language» of which «the new vernacular translations of the Mass are an example».

For Christians, this is not merely a wish rooted in an archaic cosmology but rather a fundamental theological claim.

Since, however, his interpretation set God's power, and will in the very center of history, and since he saw secular empires as stumbling inexorably through sin, rather than as representing progressive steps toward modernity, he was regarded until the mid-20th century as too archaic to be of help.

In sum, the way the world gets news about itself through the general communications network is archaic, inadequate, parochial, and dangerously divisive in an age when institutional lag should be reduced rather than perpetuated.

Virginity past 18 is very rare, and rather than spend so much energy denying that and hiding behind archaic beliefs, they need to educate their kids in how to protect themselves.

Lawrence's protest against the mechanization of life now seems a bit archaic and piquant, and his aristocratic hostility to the democratic ethos of Christianity is rather more than piquant, it is irrelevant and false.

DAN... calling all religions cults is rather shortsighted as you are not differentiating between the archaic definition of the word «cult» from the modern usage.

One way to contrast archaic and modern society, or rather the modern West and all traditional societies, archaic or historic, is to point out, as Louis Dumont following Alexis de Tocqueville has been doing in recent years, that traditional societies are characterized by hierarchy whereas modern societies are characterized by equality — at least in ideal.6 This contrast is rooted not just in political ideology but in fundamental conceptions of the nature of reality.

Rather, it is part of a pervasive reactionary mindset, which is simultaneously modern and archaic; which wants to reinvent Britain, and to drag it back to a fictional golden age assured by national virility and control.

The archaic word for United States is «The Country with the Patterned Flag» and stems from the fact that the American Flag was frequently in port cities and was rather distinct when compared to other nations.

«Our Nigerian Law School would rather be glued to the archaic tradition of the colonial past being jettisoned by the British themselves and punish a second upper graduate for wearing a headscarf that the Nigerian Constitution guarantees her than toe the path of rationality.

Rather, they write in a paper published online in the Journal of Anatomy, it appears the chin's emergence in modern humans arose from simple geometry: As our faces became smaller in our evolution from archaic humans to today — in fact, our faces are roughly 15 percent shorter than Neanderthals» — the chin became a bony prominence, the adapted, pointy emblem at the bottom of our face.

He thinks the fossils may be younger and suggests simply calling them early or archaic Neandertals, rather than giving them a new name.

According to this view, archaic humans were not replaced by anatomically modern humans, but rather, gene flow between Africa, Europe, and Asia, led to the evolution of modern humans from local populations.

But nevertheless, this movie is so wonderfully archaic and reminiscent of 1950s alien invasion stories that one can not help but like it - despite rather lackluster directing.

What with all the Twilighting going on lately, we should be thankful that once in a while a film like Easy A comes along: a film that honestly and unwaveringly addresses what it means to be a teenage girl in this image laden, information drenched age, rather than resorting to archaic romance fiction techniques with passive heroines who do nothing but wait for inherently violent men to make all the hard decisions.

Condemning this misology (because it could be nothing else but), I am inclined to snub such archaic thoughts with a mot rather than an essay.

This concept, he says, «emphasizes that an adequate education must (1) prepare students to be citizens and economic participants in a democratic society; (2) relate to contemporary, not archaic educational needs; (3) be pegged to a «more than minimal» level; and (4) focus on opportunity rather than outcome.»

But the Vantage is mature rather than archaic, and it continues to age gracefully.

The story is somewhat decent, but the dialogue and humor is rather lackluster and archaic.

Adventures of Mana acts as a rather interesting history lesson, unfortunately some archaic design choices hold it back from being the adventure of a lifetime.

Adventures of Mana proves to be a fun trip down memory lane, however archaic design choices leave you wondering what could have been rather than what you have.

Replacing the typical letters and symbols used in traditional branding irons, Morris turns this archaic tool into one used for decoration rather than identification.

We want energy production technologies that make coal power plants and coal mining look ever more archaic and unfashionable so that no developed or developing nation can build another one with any pride, and so even energy companies will shut down existing plants with a sense of relief, rather than regret.

Archaic Law's Last Call Not all lawsuits in themselves are bizarre; rather, some attempt to take down the bizarre status quo.

Ribstein suggests that these events might have been avoided but for archaic conflict of interest rules, intended to ensure that the law remains a profession rather than a business.

This exemption respected the applicant's dignity by considering their ability to afford the fees, rather than proceeding from an «archaic» focus on their social status as «impoverished» or «indigent».

The phone's rather heavy at 247 grams, but that's because of the traditional numeric keypad and the circular navigation keys that make the W2018 what it is: A flagship phone based on a nearly archaic form factor that still has a few fans around the world.