The playwright's Florence is intransigent and willful, determined to have her way against bureaucracy and Victorian tradition as well as against antiquated medical practices.

However, I've always wondered why the blatant, antiquated practice of segregation is tolerated in modern times.

As a developer, few things irk me as much as the antiquated practice of "driving to work".

It was finally overturned in August 1971, after female journalists and the general public created an outcry against the antiquated practice, and picketed the club's meeting place.

The very term suggested arcane and antiquated practices, designed to blunt the mind and deaden the soul.

They result from our antiquated practice of financing schools primarily through state and local taxes, which translates vast socioeconomic differences between neighborhoods, counties and states into vast differences in school funds.

Q. Why does the Web version of The Times continue to practice the antiquated practice of breaking articles into pages?

By starting fresh and not being bound to antiquated practices, we will be able to have a much healthier atmosphere.

The stranglehold the print unions once held on the industry has been broken, modern computer technology has replaced antiquated type-setting practices and profitability has soared.

Mr Hollar had always served in modern ships and he had never weighed with a voyol: indeed it was an antiquated practice.