In terms of domestic politics, he was a deregulator who tried to cut the age-old interest lines and reduce the number of overprotected quangos.
Of the age-old rural games only village cricket survived intact.
Perhaps the restless quest to rediscover age-old communities is an integral element of the rootless experience of modernity.
An assumed disruptive, as opposed to supportive, role of women in military life seems to stem from age-old misogynistic perspectives on female behaviour.
The age-old sense of expulsion, of not feeling comfortable, made it easier still.
The advances, which began in the latter half of the nineteenth century, overturned the age-old understanding of axiomatic treatments of a field of mathematical study.
Truths of this kind could end the age-old debate between descriptivists and prescriptivists - if only both sides would acknowledge them.
This is the notion that advances in neuroscience and neurophilosophy have finally solved the age-old mind-brain problem.