It's a deeply right wing unrepresentative and archaic institution and should be scrapped.

He is used to jests about what some see as an archaic institution, the all-boys choir school.

As the Empire of Japan annexed Asian countries, from the late 19th century onwards, archaic institutions including slavery were abolished in those countries.

One may seek the abolition of archaic and reactionary institutions like pre-capitalist slave labour in places like Tibet.

For an economy seeking to wean itself off commodities exports to become "innovative," the monochrome political landscape with its "elements of neo-feudalism and archaic institutions" are crippling.

It was such an archaic institution until then.

For years development economists saw Africans' tontines as archaic tribal institutions that would die out with the rise of modern economies based on European-style banking systems.

This merger is the last gasp of two archaic institutions whose writing is on the wall.

This far out on the frontier, where the Federation's massively complex economy had yet to be established, archaic institutions like banks had reason for existing.

An archaic institution?