| The bulk of China's order-of-battle, however, consists of obsolescent Soviet-styled and Soviet-built equipment. |
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| As with other nations in the pre-war period, the USA had short-range reconnaissance units equipped with slow and obsolescent aircraft. |
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| The Tooth Cave spider is a small, whitish, long-legged spider with obsolescent eyes. |
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| It means that economical users will have an opportunity to invest into a modern and future-proof rather than into an obsolescent platform. |
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| The hostel at Waterbank has served a purpose for 40 years but is now obsolescent. |
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| The disappearance of some processes may be offset by an adequate technical record taken on site from those who worked in obsolescent industries. |
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| Depending on where you sit, it's either a document recodifying a revolution or a relic recycling an obsolescent controversy. |
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| His conventional forces, though obsolescent and suffering from shortages, are still sufficiently massive to threaten neighbors. |
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| Walt's obsolescent foreign policy is deeply rooted in the statism of a bygone era. |
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| The configuration of the old trailer was obsolescent, making it problematic for hauling some of the equipment. |
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| With the databases obtained from the alien refugees, they incoming ships were identified as Dreadnoughts, which are obsolescent capital cruisers. |
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| Too much equipment was obsolescent, and the lack of capital investment adversely affected productivity. |
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| Repealing or declaring obsolescent such acts therefore also requires prior consultation of Member States. |
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| He played in Hungary's first game of the World Cup finals in Stockholm four years later, but looked slow and obsolescent. |
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| The trade union movement, far from obsolescent, is still a force to be reckoned with in Québec. |
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| The present air traffic control system is being pushed to its limits, working with obsolescent technologies and suffering from fragmentation. |
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| And they are living reminders that one day even Rupert will be obsolescent. |
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| Over the past decade, the Iraqis have improvised and cannibalized their obsolescent aircraft, tanks, armored personnel carriers, and air defense network to keep them going. |
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| The term is obsolescent, and will in time probably disappear. |
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| It is a fact that Luftwaffe airmen and ground personnel won their few defensive successes towards war's end with conventional or even obsolescent weapons. |
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| The assets themselves are technologically obsolescent and simply too expensive and non-competitive to operate even with private sector efficiencies. |
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| At present the civilized world is trapped somewhat in a timewarp of arguably obsolescent political, ethical, and strategic assumptions and practices. |
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| A class is created of dogged self-righteous obstructionists with a vested interest in the status quo, however obsolescent, however decayed, however inappropriate to the site. |
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| Among the major and urgent work, repair of the sunken driveway, which had become dangerous for traffic, and the repair of leaks resulting from an obsolescent isolation joint was undertaken and completed at the Miollis site. |
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| Truth is timeless but the teachings respecting the physical sciences and certain phases of cosmology will become partially obsolescent as the result of the new discoveries of advancing scientific investigations. |
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| The heavy dependence on obsolescent heavy industry and mining was a central problem, and no one offered workable solutions. |
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| Like sixty other Senegalese companies, SIMPA benefited from an AFD-financed program in the Senegalese Industrial Upgrading and Modernization Office that replaced obsolescent machines and trained employees. |
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| China's widespread use of obsolescent industrial and electrical equipment has raised average energy consumption and waste in Chinese plants well above international standards. |
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| The lodestar by which the free world has navigated since the late 1940s, the containment of Russia and of communism, is becoming obsolescent, because of that policy's very success. |
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| In the civil context, outlawry became obsolescent in civil procedure by reforms that no longer required summoned defendants to appear and plead. |
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| Such offices were obsolescent and involved negligible duties and scant profit, but were in the King's gift nonetheless. |
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| Typing with a typewriter is obsolescent, having been largely superseded by preparing a document with a word processor and printing. |
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| The technology of law reform in Canada is rusty and obsolescent. |
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| The periodic costs of replacing obsolescent hardware and software. |
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| They had obsolescent heavy industry, and suddenly had to pay very high energy prices which caused sharp inflation. |
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| The square toe shoe is a contemporary fashion trend, which makes it obsolescent in nature. |
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| The proposal simplifies and consolidates the legislation as it removes obsolescent parts of the third package and clarifies the text where needed. |
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| Andrew Krepinevich of the Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a military think-tank, argues that the MDA should be concentrating on research, rather than locking itself into a system that may prove obsolescent. |
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| This has required them to verify the homogeneity of the principles that permit them to retrace and evaluate the recoveries following default and confirm that these data are not obsolescent. |
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| Audi has set itself the target of making rear fog lamps obsolescent in the foreseeable future. |
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| This is only possible with auto variables and in many cases the compiler can better select the variables to optimize into registers, so this keyword is obsolescent. |
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| Certainly, the inertia effect of storing, maintaining and copying ever increasing quantities of audiovisual materials in obsolescent formats will discourage rash judgments for the foreseeable future. |
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| Furthermore, as has been done in the case of codification, a fast track inter-institutional mechanism should be agreed for the technical repeal of obsolescent acts of the Council or of the European Parliament and the Council. |
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| Consequently, in an infamous statement in the 1957 Defence White Paper the Sandys review declared that manned aircraft were obsolescent and would soon become obsolete. |
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| The process of reviving an antique ethnic identity often poses an immediate language challenge, as obsolescent languages lack expressions for contemporary experiences. |
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| Invertebrates can be classified into several main categories, some of which are taxonomically obsolescent or debatable, but still used as terms of convenience. |
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