time-honoured

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Running a pub is a time-honoured way to lose money in the UK.

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(British spelling) Alternative spelling of time-honored. [(American spelling) Honored because of great age, or long usage.]

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adjective

(British spelling) Alternative spelling of time-honored. [(American spelling) Honored because of great age, or long usage.]

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adjective

(British spelling) Alternative spelling of time-honored. [(American spelling) Honored because of great age, or long usage.]

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Running a pub is a time-honoured way to lose money in the UK.

What you might really mean here is the time-honoured principle of seeing a good design somewhere and mindlessly cargo-culting it to produce a bad design somewhere else.

Why not follow the time-honoured approach and put the data centres in low-income countries?

One more taking part in a time-honoured tradition of taking someone else's thing, adding your own dipping mustard (if even that), and calling it your own.

It's a time-honoured tradition, but yes, a strange one.

...and following the time-honoured Android tradition of platform fragmentation, Mad Catz is also releasing an Android console!

(There's also the time-honoured tactic of spawn camping -- on OKC you can sort profiles by newness).

A shared room at that time-honoured refuge of newly arrived gaijin, sakura house, runs around 47k/m and that would be way better than the cubicle in that video.

It is unfortunate, though, that the subject is generally, as within the EU report document, framed within a nationalist perspective - nationalism itself being something of a time-honoured trap for the same class of victim.

Instead, I am following the time-honoured custom of referring to the generic, unknown, anonymous, de-personalized, faceless reader and learner who has no individual identity as ‘he’.

> an athlete said I'm looking to go a little faster and farther with the aid of a powered device isn't that a time-honoured tradition at tour de france?

All sorts of things about this are off: Market segmentation is the time-honoured technique of asking people how much money they have when they want to buy something rather than telling them what it costs, meaning what it costs is a function of how much money they have.

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Well this was just annoying, so with the time-honoured cry of "Hold my beer!" I got the tools out.

No, it actually seems Dijkstras argument for formal methods is that it is a "time-honoured tradition", a line of reasoning akin to that of the the emperor and the opponents of sterialization.