The industrial traits in this way tend to obsolescence through disuse.
It should hold true, approximately, that devoutness is declining or tending to obsolescence among the members of what may be called the effective industrial community.
For them, therefore, it hastens the obsolescence of the distinctively predatory aptitudes and propensities carried over by heredity and tradition from the barbarian past of the race.
This is still true in this era when improved living standards and rising national requirements are accompanied by swift advances in technology and rapid obsolescence in machines and methods.
In these days of unceasing technological advance, we must plan our defense expenditures systematically and with care, fully recognizing that obsolescencecompels the never-ending replacement of older weapons with new ones.
Obsolescence in this connexion must be understood only of common educated speech, that is, the average speaker's vocabulary.
The best evidence of the obsolescence of any word is that it should still be frequently heard in some proverb or phrase, but never out of it.
The complete depreciation represented that part of the original plant which through destruction or obsolescence had actually perished as useful property.
The life of a piece of track or equipment, disregarding obsolescence and extraordinaries, generally depends on the type and details of construction, the service it has done, and the service that will be required of it.
Also for rate-making and the capital regulation some consideration is certainly due to obsolescence and change of art, while in taxation they should not be included.
This disposition I ascribe to a recognition of that obsolescence and inadequacy of the formal organization of States, which has already been discussed in this book.
But this impending dissolution of a common standard of morals does not mean universal depravity until some great reconstruction obtains any more than the obsolescence of the Conventicle Act means universal irreligion.
We believe, however, that the real reason is the effect of individuality gained by the use of pieces made by old craftsmen a century or more ago when things were built to last and mass production and obsolescence were unknown terms.
As its acquirement has been a work of protracted habituation, so can its obsolescence also come about only through more or less protracted habituation under a system of use and wont of a different or divergent order.
De facto he is only free to take them--with inconsequential exceptions--the alternative being obsolescence by disuse, not to choose a harsher name for a distasteful eventuality.
If there is anywhere a safe negative conclusion, it is that an institution grown mischievous by obsolescence need not be replaced by a substitute.
The assertion of the rapid obsolescence of ships of war will be dwelt upon, in the hopes of contravening it.
In this sense the obsolescence of modern ships of war is just one of those half-truths which, as Tennyson has it, are ever the worst of lies; it is harder to meet and fight outright than an unqualified untruth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obsolescence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abstention; abstinence; desuetude; retirement
