(v. t.) To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.
(v. t.) To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.
(v. i.) To become fossil.
(v. i.) To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(2) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
(3) Bobbing in warming waters, this ancient ice fossil will be gone in a couple of weeks.
(4) The pendulum swung even further with growing fossil, archaeological and genetic data in the 1990s.
(5) This is triggered not so much by climate change but the cause of global warming itself: the burning of fossil fuels both inside and outside the home, says Farrar.
(6) This approximately 40-Myr-old specimen is the first fossil primate found in Burma since the fragmentary remains of the controversial earliest anthropoids Pondaungia cotteri Pilgrim and Amphipithecus mogaungensis Colbert were recovered more than 50 yr ago.
(7) Comparison of these tracks and the Hadar hominid foot fossils by Tuttle has led him to conclude that Australopithecus afarensis did not make the Tanzanian prints and that a more derived form of hominid is therefore indicated at Laetoli.
(8) Because the fossil fuel industry faces a closing pincers.
(9) The reputations of companies linked to fossil fuels are at immediate risk from a fast-growing divestment campaign, one of Europe’s biggest asset managers has warned.
(10) The first report, released last September in Stockholm , found humans were the "dominant cause" of climate change, and warned that much of the world's fossil fuel reserves would have to stay in the ground to avoid catastrophic climate change.
(11) The methods described make possible the preparation of fossil samples for light nad transmission electron microscopy.
(12) This would force them to move rapidly away from fossil fuels in just a few years, something which they say is impossible to do given their limited finances and need to improve the lives of their people.
(13) That means eliminating fossil fuel subsidies as well.
(14) The branching pattern derived from the DNA comparisons is congruent with the fossil evidence and supported by comparative biochemical, chromosomal, and morphological studies.
(15) This method ensures the good preservation of spatial relations between bone elements essential for studies of fossil bones, which are sometimes very brittle.
(16) Driven by a desire to reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels and promote a secure supply of energy, the government of Albania has been very eager to encourage increased investment in renewable energy and in 2013 a law was passed to promote renewable energy .
(17) What the Chinese want is resources, especially fossil fuels.
(18) Each country can discover how much CO2 it emits by calculating the volume of fossil fuels it burns, usually through imports and the tax system.
(19) Plus, unlike planet-screwing fossil fuels, solar could actually be subsidy-free in a few years.
(20) ('76), viz., that the fossil is "unique" among Hominoids, is essentially correct.
Outmoded
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The UK, France and Germany have been accused of hypocrisy for lobbying behind the scenes to keep outmoded car tests for carbon emissions, but later publicly calling for a European investigation into Volkswagen’s rigging of car air pollution tests .
(2) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
(3) When theatre has come under attack as an outmoded form, Lepage has been cited as proof of its radical vitality.
(4) The author points out that remarkably little interest is focused on the possibility of a new model of residential care to replace the outmoded hospital.
(5) Data currently in the literature regarding the detectability of sites of lymphoma by 67Ga imaging should be regarded as representing the minimum that can be expected from the method, since all reported series are based on outmoded imaging techniques.
(6) Yet because they invariably present themselves as modernisers, those who resist or criticise their arguments risk being seen as traditionalists, stuck in old ways and outmoded thinking – a position that seldom promises rapid career advancement.
(7) The very funding mechanism of the licence fee – a tax on television sets – is beginning to look outmoded and shaky in the world of catch-up, the tablet and the smartphone.
(8) Despite these advances, office practice generally continues to function on an outmoded model and psychiatric resources remain inequitably distributed.
(9) Intraosseous infusion is an outmoded technique that is gaining new prominence in the field of emergency medicine.
(10) Critics of zoos have been given a prime opportunity to rehearse their view that such institutions – a throwback to the 19th century, which had a taste for both scientific classification and freak shows – are outmoded.
(11) The rewards and punishments model shown in the report is an outmoded approach and there’s nothing in there about properly dealing with the obvious issues of distress and breakdown in detention,” she said.
(12) "There's no basis to the argument that sleeper trains are outmoded per se," said blogger Jon Worth, who has launched a petition to save the Copenhagen night train.
(13) Suddenly the brothers' mix of pop and country was outmoded, even if their influence would be glaringly obvious in a Beatles song such as Please Please Me, closely modelled on Cathy's Clown.
(14) Because several case reports in the past ten years have demonstrated that the definition of "scarring alopecia" is ambiguous, the use of the traditional schema--scarring versus nonscarring--may well be outmoded.
(15) With this new invention, a flood of ancient, outmoded texts was released upon the public, and eager readers frequently were unaware that books they were being sold as new works were actually in some cases a thousand years old.
(16) First, Professor Baron argues that Dr. Relman's position that doctors should make such decisions is based upon an outmoded, paternalistic view of the doctor-patient relationship.
(17) But here's the real problem: the outmoded, cosy system of prosecution, which has regulators still bound by old handshake agreements.
(18) It is concluded that the concept of psychophysiologic or psychosomatic disorder is outmoded.
(19) In short, we dare not forget the simple truth put forth by Harold Dodds that "No, work is not an ethical duty imposed on us from without by a misguided and outmoded Puritan morality; it is a manifestation of man's deepest desire that the days of his life shall have significance."
(20) Hospitals' patterns of ancillary service use were examined to determine whether new technologies replace older, more outmoded technologies, and to explore the factors associated with adoption of newer services and abandonment of older services.