obsolescent


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becoming obsolete

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'Obsolescent buildings might be wrong for their current use, but might also be adaptable to something more suitable,' she says.
Vampires, obsolescent but considered suitable for providing close support in the valleys of Kashmir, were hastily called into action.
The materials flown in space are potential candidates to replace obsolescent materials with environmentally-friendly options.
Real capital requires human effort to produce and maintain it, often becomes obsolescent, and eventually wears out.
Digital cameras and computers quickly become obsolescent; vehicles wear out; even hard assets like precious metals and houses see drastic swings in value.
Officials at the talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, said the main problem areas remaining are: 1) how quickly sanctions will be lifted; 2) how much work Iran will be allowed to do on more advanced centrifuges than the slow and obsolescent IR-1 centrifuges it is now using; and 3) whether there will be a provision for sanctions to be snapped back in place instantly and automatically if Iran is declared to be violating the agreement.
The idea of simply burying waste is an obsolescent "end of pipe" solution long since rejected and superseded by the rest of the UK (and, indeed, global) chemical community.
ARE police front counters and even stations obsolescent in the digital age?
Despite the fear that "advancing knowledge threatens what we hold sacred, that solving mysteries reduces the realm of beauty, that faith and love cannot be rational, that our sense of the holy may be obsolescent in a world of technology," the author finds the opposite to be true: "The science that enshrines a commitment to truth reveals the deepest beauties, finding order in places that were unknown or thought to be chaotic," he writes.
This forced the Waffen-SS to be equipped with a dog's breakfast of obsolescent, cast-off and otherwise non-standard (by Wehrmacht definition) arms.
The T-64 is an obsolescent tank no longer in active use by Russian forces, but kept in storage in southwest Russia.
The Army has invested approximately $2 billion over the last 10 years to modernize obsolescent legacy air and missile defense capabilities but stopped short of integrating them into the force.
The Navy is well below strength, and its increasingly obsolescent platforms are dangerous.
an administration office, a waste collection facility, washing and disinfection facility for trucks, seawater supply, drinking water supply networks and a water tower, sewage network, pavement works, power supply network - lighting, increased diesel storage capacity, new petrol and diesel station for fishermen, removal of obsolescent and superseded equipment and refurbishment.