Relic
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To be sure, pushing the electric engine past the gas-powered
relic
will remain an uphill battle.
The Halki Seminary, opened in 1844, is a
relic
from that bygone age of pluralism.
In other words, before we finish building the next nuclear plant, it will be an expensive and increasingly irrelevant
relic
of the 1950’s dream of “atoms for peace.”
He even seized the
relic
of the tooth of Buddha, a symbol of Sri Lankan political sovereignty.
So it has quickly been forgotten in rich countries – thought of as a
relic
from the Victorian era.
From the American perspective, Europe is less a model than a historical
relic.
In some of these countries, conservative governments viewed industrial promotion as some dirigiste
relic
from the past, and avoided it.
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade once labeled the CFA franc a colonial
relic
– but that was when he was an opposition leader.
On the other hand, the Clinton-Hashimoto Declaration of April 1996 affirmed that the US-Japan security treaty, rather than being a Cold War relic, would provide the basis for a stable and prosperous East Asia.
However, thanks to a simple but ingenious innovation by an emerging bioscience company, those numbers could become a
relic
of the past, like mortality from smallpox and bubonic plague.
In a country where ancient artifacts are deeply cherished, the myth of regional greatness is one
relic
that should disappear soon.
What is the link between nostalgia for a simplified and less risky banking sector and the wish to reintroduce a currency system that also seems a
relic
of the past?
In 2003, the Sapir report on Europe’s economic system called the EU budget a historical
relic.
The EU budget would eventually morph into it, or become a small
relic.
We could start, for example, with the United Nations, which, in its current form, is a
relic
of the situation shortly after the end of World War II.
In many respects, the present Council is but a
relic
of post-war circumstances.
In the early 1990s, many observers believed that the US-Japan alliance would be discarded as a Cold War
relic.
Far from being a
relic
of socialist central planning, industrial policy may sometimes be the intelligent choice.
Humanitarian law increasingly seems like a
relic
of the past.
That made him a
relic
of the past for Poland’s post-communist political leaders, who had no time for humanistic intellectuals.
Next came the temple in Ayodhya, by which Modi’s government signaled that it was dismantling another
relic
of the first republic – inter-faith accommodation.
It is somewhat ironic that the G7 presages the future, because it is in many ways a
relic
of the past.
The British Empire is over, the Commonwealth is little more than a sentimental
relic
of the past, and the relationship with the US may be very special to the English, but it is much less so to the Americans.
Similarly, the United Nations has come to seem like a relic, favoring victors of a long-ago war, reflecting obsolete power relations, and denying a sufficient voice to countries of the global south, many of which had yet to achieve independence by the time the UN was founded in 1945.
Those words now seem like a
relic
of a bygone era.
Souvarine, if he had cared to come, would have applauded his ideas so far as he recognized them, pleased with his pupil's progress in anarchism and satisfied with the programme, except the article on education, a
relic
of silly sentimentality, for men needed to be dipped in a bath of holy and salutary ignorance.
The work of organising the Guard of Honour and popular feeling finished, the Mayor had next to deal with a great religious ceremony; the King of ---- refused to pass through Verrieres without paying a visit to the famous
relic
of Saint Clement which is preserved at Bray-le-Haut, a short league from the town.
The next thing was to write a honeyed note to the abbe Chelan, inviting him to be present at the veneration of the
relic
at Bray-le-Haut, his great age and infirmities permitting.
The King was to halt for dinner, immediately after which he would take the road again to go and venerate the famous
relic
of Saint Clement.
This was a nephew of M. de La Mole, recently appointed to the See, who had been selected to exhibit the
relic
to the King.
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