Examples of obsolete

• The paradigm of staple food self-sufficiency that has been the cornerstone of agricultural policy in most developing countries becomes increasingly obsolete with economic growth.

• Those who cannot do these things are either ' children ' or fools, useless or obsolete.

• Equally, it refers to the availability of appropriate devices, as rapid technological change soon makes systems obsolete and manufacturers discontinue production.

• With the sovietisation of their neighbours, the justification for annexations as liberation from imperialist oppression became obsolete.

• But the very nature of electroacoustic composition and the various computational processes, their range and their refinement, usually render traditional analytic methods obsolete and unusable.

• One effect of the crises of the 1970s was to render obsolete many of the assumptions that had been unchallengeable only a few years earlier.

• Training was costly, time-consuming and inherently risky, since a new skill could quickly become obsolete or fail to attract sufficient work to merit the investment.

• While he concedes 'undoubted musical qualities', he finds that the libretto renders the opera obsolete, no longer acceptable.