Given that so much may be at stake, the way such broadcasts are allocated is antediluvian.

ECONOMIST: Party election broadcasts

The changes to the judiciary mean that antediluvian judges and prosecutors no longer stand in his way.

ECONOMIST: Turkey's referendum

By the turn of the century, though, mechanicals had won favor among collectors who prized their antediluvian complexity.

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For a godfather of electronic trading, Mr Madoff ran the business along antediluvian lines: clients and feeder-fund managers were denied online access to their accounts.

ECONOMIST: The Madoff affair

BlackBerries have an antediluvian OS, a bad browser, an inferior app ecosystem, and hardware and pricing that is at best on par with Apple and Android.

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It was this antediluvian gesture, shorn of all accoutrements of modernity that arguably serves as a crude model for the giant carefully choreographed music festivals of today.

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In transport , the famously antediluvian Ministry of Transport announced in late January that it would abolish its rigid capacity and price controls by 2001 at the latest.

ECONOMIST: Deregulation in Japan

The present method is antediluvian.

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