But here in this south-eastern corner of Korea, few people are ready to consign it to the past.
Or that anyone advised Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard to consign typewriters to the trash bin forever?
Barnsley put on a blistering first half performance to consign Derby to their first defeat in seven league games.
Sir Philip believes London 2012 will help to consign it to history.
And then at the other end Monti converted Finlayson's low cross past Craig Samson to consign Ayr to Second Division football next term.
De Rossi had Italy's last chance, but the striker blazed wide from the edge of the box to consign them to an early exit from the competition.
MPs were quick to point out flaws in Mr Davies's bill, before voting to consign it to the legislative scrap heap by a majority of just three.
Do you want to consign them to adoption or to research, or maybe you would like to produce fewer of them so that there will be fewer left over.
Bellamy lived up to the enormous hype and his breathtaking free-kick with six minutes remaining capped an impressive all-round performance to consign Doncaster to their first league defeat of the season.
The prime minister, he believed, was seeking to consign Thatcherism to the past rather than claiming, as he could have done, that he was its inheritor and that today's battles were an extension of hers.
Maurice Edu's 11th-minute strike was enough to consign Hamilton to their first league defeat in seven matches, but the Accies boss is sure the linesman called it wrong when he ruled McArthur's late goal offside.
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But the result was defeat, not only in Cuba itself but in the Philippines: a defeat that helped to consign Spain to a period of confusion and weakness from which it is only now decisively emerging.
Now that it's out, the money-printing genie cannot be put back in the bottle even if the result may be to consign economies to further years of stagnation, rising debt burdens, fewer opportunities for young people and ultimately the risk of rising inflation and global currency instability.
Norwich City hit back with three goals in 18 second-half minutes to consign Swansea City to only their second home Premier League defeat of the season.
The Reds threw away their early advantage to slump to yet another defeat and consign themselve to second from bottom of the table.
Because Americans have tried to consign the Lewinsky mess to legal technicians, the scandal seems headed down a path that many find regrettable.
It was a convenient piece of wartime propaganda - but one that allowed the Austrians subsequently to consign the Nazi era to a kind of oblivion.
Murray's victory sets-up a semifinal clash with Croatian Marin Cilic, who underlined his growing reputation by hitting 20 aces and 63 winners to consign seventh seed Andy Roddick to defeat.
It would consign America to second place in our fiercely competitive global economy.
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It is ironic, as the museum's director, Professor Stefano De Caro, explained recently while guiding visitors around the Gabinetto, that over the centuries most European courts, when embarrassed by objects they considered obscene in their collections, would consign them to Naples.
It's no longer enough to write or say something and consign any responses to the letters page or occasional "have your say" programme.
England's nascent confidence of a fortnight ago, when they resoundingly beat Australia 35-18, was shattered by a muscular and powerful South African side eager to consign their shock defeat by Scotland last week to history.
To let partisan grandstanding cut necessary transportation investments and consign American businesses to roads that are in disrepair, and travel and shipping delays that cost millions of dollars, is inexcusable.
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So -- so I ask this Congress to join me in doing whatever proves necessary, because we cannot consign our nation to an open-ended recession.
He worries that a bunker mentality will consign the unions to irrelevance.
Because we cannot consign our nation to an open-ended recession.
For the balance, they would pledge to consign paintings for the next sale six months later, promising the auction house it could draw the money owed when those paintings sold.
We cannot consign our children to this future.
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The court heard Sir Ross Cranston said in a press release in 2000 he welcomed the chance to vote in favour of the Hunting Bill and "consign this brutal practice to the dustbin of history".
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