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The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034? Shashi Tharoor
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Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now. Octavio Paz
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Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
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They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models. Bob Weir
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My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland. Seamus Heaney
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Green Arrow was a very complicated character to take on because he has archaic weaponry. Catwoman, I think is more of a simple archetype to grasp, so it will be about nuance. But I think you need three or four issues before you say, 'Ah ha! Now I really know how to write this character!' You're carrying them around with you.
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I was raised to ignore it. It was something my mother's generation saw as an embarrassment. It was corny and archaic and not pushed as something an up-and-coming musician wanted to learn. My mother wanted me to write Broadway shows.
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I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute. Gary Jennings
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Our government promised it would fix up the waterfront, its inefficiencies and its archaic work practice, and we meant it.
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Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws. Cynthia Payne
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To improve service, the IRS needs to break out of its technological time warp from the 1950s and 1960s, ... In the long run, this new partnership will help us replace archaic technology with the modern tools we need to deliver top-quality service to taxpayers.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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It only sounds archaic if people aren't having a good time,
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If you're no longer growing together, you have to part ways and go on. I think that 'death do us part' is an archaic aspect of marriage. It's not really applicable. I think about my grandparents who were married for 60-odd years, but they hated each other. That was the custom then, and I don't really think that's the healthiest approach.
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It's an archaic process. It can be done with more rapidity, in a better pricing environment, skipping the third party in toto. I wish I could figure out a way to short seat on the Exchange.
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This is not some archaic branch of evolution. This is our branch of evolution. This is our wrist. This is the evolution of our neck. Neil Shubin