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• s  so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
  archaic laws
• s  little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
  archaic forms of life

• The archaic rainwater drainage system was not able to cope with the deluge and the entire area got inundated.
• The archaic mindset is the root cause of animosity and the intransigence of the warring parties.
• These archaic laws cannot work in this age of Internet.

• antediluvian
• antiquated
• primitive

News & Articles

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• Joint Pain
  Stupid pot laws a chronic malady by Chris Potter The first step in addressing a substance-abuse problem, they say, is admitting you have one. But when it comes to our archaic pot laws, that isn't enough.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  June 12, 2013 - Pittsburgh City Paper

Quotes

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• Phil Jackson in USA Today
  Even if you hit the net, supposedly in the process, that's part of it, but that rule is kind of archaic,Jackson said.
• Michael Ronaldson in The Canberra Times
  Despite unions representing only 17 per cent of Australian workers, Labor's archaic membership rules require that all their MPs be union members. It would appear that whoever pays the piper still calls the tune,Senator Ronaldson said.
• George Osborne in The Guardian
  We need investment in our digital infrastructure,Osborne said in his budget speech. "But the previous government's landline duty is an archaic way of achieving this, hitting 30 million households who happen to have a fixed telephone line....