Attorneys for Shelby County argued that the pre-clearance requirement is outdated in a state where one-fourth of the Legislature is black.
Mandatory life sentences for murder in England and Wales and the system for setting minimum terms are unjust and outdated, a legal experts' group says.
Universities say these buildings are now woefully outdated and a turn-off to a generation of students who grew up pampered with their own bedrooms and bathrooms in homes wired for the latest technology.
It's true that neither is likely to get to 300 wins, but that magic round number has become very much outdated as a benchmark in this era of five-man pitching rotations and increased emphasis on relief pitching.
Notions of buying a home and starting a family have become outdated markers of adulthood for a new generation less likely to commit as a result of economic insecurity.
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Outdated traditions include a brother forbidding his sister to marry and then "shaming" her by withholding her dowry.
And yes, the monarchy is an outdated vestige of a system of government and of an empire that both faded long ago.
And yet, the federal government's ability to investigate and prosecute these frauds is severely hindered by outdated laws and a lack of resources.
"The information is often going to be outdated, as a number of persons will subsequently have become citizens and lawfully registered to vote, " Perez wrote.
Although the petition included only a very small proportion of Anglican churchgoers, the group claimed it showed that opposition to women bishops was not an outdated view of a few diehard traditionalists, our correspondent said.
In a statement to the Senate, Senator Nicole Eaton said the beaver was an outdated symbol, and a destructive rodent.
Further, the SGR issue is about to become a thing of the past as Congress moves toward reaching a permanent solution to the problem created by an outdated formula that puts physicians in a position of taking major pay cuts from Medicare each year.
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To many, the concerns of Mahathir and others about a cultural blitzkrieg seem a bit outdated.
So consider this Valentine's Day an opportunity to set aside your outdated expectations and embrace a new mindset.
But with an outdated Soviet arsenal and a creaking economy, Syria is not quite strong enough to stand on its own.
He said the bill would cut red tape and consolidate more than a dozen outdated pieces of legislation governing co-operatives and mutuals.
Current laws under which the victims of historic child abuse can achieve justice are outdated and inflexible, a Scottish minister has said.
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White's exhaustive valuation studies and fundamental research looked outdated, and many a stock fund clobbered his portfolio's respectable 26.3% return for 1999.
In 1993, Richard Norman and Rafael Ramirez argued that the value chain was outdated, suited to a slower changing world of comparatively fixed markets.
Playing in a woefully outdated Nassau Coliseum and finishing near the bottom of the league for most of the past decade, the Islanders have played to sparse crowds and limited corporate sponsorship money.
After four years the group raised enough money to transform an outdated village hall into a community hub - with a local shop, coffee shop and a post office due to open soon.
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Therefore, instead of falling into old, outdated habits that put a strain on your mental and financial well-being in retirement, establish some new investment habits that will help you succeed beyond just the dollars and cents of traditional retirement planning.
The irony of this approach was that, like the original Electronic Data Systems contract, it embodied fashionable ideas at the time it was first formulated, but now that the Navy is ready to actually implement those ideas they look a bit outdated.
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As Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Cameron Smith have estimated, in a now outdated paper from 2010, given the growing estimates coming out of CBO, upwards of an additional 38 million individuals could access subsidies because it makes financial sense for companies to dump.
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Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, both Republicans, are singled out in particular for ignoring "mounting evidence" of problems with outdated voting technology in a number of counties, and for ignoring requests for guidance and assistance from local elections officials.
Just as Sakamoto helped bring about a social revolution that set Japan on the road to modernization, Son, Sawada and Nambu are calling for another revolution - one that will replace what they believe is an inefficient, outdated business culture with a new paradigm that will prepare Japan for the next century.
Lawmakers have a "unique opportunity" to put an end to outdated discrimination, the group said in a statement.
Slowly but surely, they are sweeping aside outdated practices and bringing in a whole new outlook.
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