This is her relic

This old relic? It's only rhinestones.

It's considered as a relic, you understand?

It's a living relic of the distant past.

Thank you for sending her relic all the way

The existing consensus has been characterized as a relic of the past.

Oh, it's all right as a curiosity. A relic of the past.

There, you get out of that relic of Aunt Renie's, and I'II get the fire started.

In fact, it was in large measure a relic of the ideological issues and confrontations of the cold war.

The Sheridan Expressway is an underutilized relic of the Robert Moses era, built with no regard for the neighborhoods that were divided by it.

And what first attracted me, or interested me, was this view from the street which is this steel structure, sort of rusty, this industrial relic.

We partnered with the Nature Conservancy for inmates at Stafford Creek Correctional Center to grow endangered prairie plants for restoration of relic prairie areas in Washington state.

When you write your story about us, compare me to one of these homes boarded up, a thing of the past, a relic to be sold for taxes.

I would also like to say and this is just a comment with regard to an indication that our agenda was in a sense a relic from the cold war that in Brazil's view, I think what is a relic that we have to face is the question of nuclear weapons and the utilization of nuclear weapons as, let us say, part of certain strategic policies.

In the early 1990 s, many Americans regarded Japan as an economic threat. Some people in both countries viewed the security alliance as a Cold War relic to be discarded.

This positive development now makes judicial corporal punishment for ordinary crimes a historical relic and may be expected substantially to reduce the incidence of such cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments.

From the American perspective, Europe is less a model than a historical relic. The continent s national characteristics have returned to the fore Germany with its economic power, France with its terrorists, Greece with its leftists, and so forth.

For now, people still must turn for solutions to their national governments, which remain the best hope for collective action. The nation state may be a relic bequeathed to us by the French Revolution, but it is all that we have.

Public work, which is required by law of all men and women between 15 and 65 years of age, is partly a relic of the society created by the mutineers and partly a necessity born of the basically tax free economy.

At the end of 2012, conditions in Latin America are very different. Democracy is not the exception, but the rule military regimes have succumbed to the power of the ballot box and guerrilla groups have largely become a relic of the past.

Then there is the long tradition of the court jester with license to criticize the despot by sweetening his barbs with jokes. The annual Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington, where the president is lampooned by the press, is a relic of this custom.

But Volcker has also been a prominent critic of the dangers of currency volatility. What is the link between nostalgia for a simplified and less risky banking sector and the wish to reintroduce a currency system that also seems a relic of the past?

In Mali, several suspected terrorists members of a local branch of Al Qaeda were set free in exchange for a lone French hostage. Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade once labeled the CFA franc a colonial relic but that was when he was an opposition leader.

In doing so, it has been guided by the solid consensus that has emerged among the majority of States Members of the United Nations to the effect that the continuing trade and economic embargo against Cuba is a relic of the era of bloc confrontation.

Young women in five inch heels and revealing clothing prowled for wealthy men or were imported by them to decorate boats and premiere parties. Every night, the parade of stars up the red carpet, flanked by photographers, played out like a relic of a more ritualistic time.

In some of these countries, conservative governments viewed industrial promotion as some dirigiste relic from the past, and avoided it. In others Brazil comes to mind left leaning governments practiced industrial promotion in such a heavy handed and erratic way that they ended up weakening whatever it was they wanted to promote.

And their prophet said unto them verily the sign of his dominion is that there shall come unto you the ark wherein is tranquillity from your Lord and the relic of that which the household of Musa and the household of Harun had left, the angels bearing it verily, herein is a sign for you if ye are believers.

And their prophet said unto them verily the sign of his dominion is that there shall come unto you the ark wherein is tranquillity from your Lord and the relic of that which the household of Musa and the household of Harun had left, the angels bearing it verily, herein is a sign for you if ye are believers.

We could start, for example, with the United Nations, which, in its current form, is a relic of the situation shortly after the end of World War II. It does not reflect the influence of some new regional powers, while immorally equating countries whose representatives are democratically elected and those whose representatives speak only for themselves or their juntas, at best.

In fact, the provisions of Chapter VII are the rationale of the Security Council. Myanmar has consistently held the view that the veto is unjust and anachronistic and that its ultimate elimination is the most logical conclusion. However, we accept that it is unrealistic to eliminate the veto at present. We therefore consider it unfair and discriminatory to deny the veto to new permanent members until we can seal the fate of this unwanted relic of the past.

Although in 2001 the Supreme Court of the United States refused, by a majority of five to four, to reconsider its 1989 judgment in the case of Kevin Stanford (who had been 17 when he committed murder) that the death sentence passed on him was not a violation of the Constitution, the four dissenting justices declared that, in their opinion, the execution of juvenile offenders was a relic of the past and inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society .