"system" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Land reform in the 1950s largely eliminated a centuries-old system of debt peonage.
- Businessmen and other people with large sums began depositing cash with the money changers, whose centuries-old system has worked through wars and natural disasters.
- When the British took over administration, the centuries-old system of land proprietorship was left intact.
- When you start fiddling with a centuries-old system like this, you're just asking for trouble.
- In Scotland the centuries-old system of minimum legal rights to a deceased estate for a widowed spouse were expressly extended to civil partners by section 131 of Act.
- This is especially true since the Chicago Board of Trade voted last month to start electronic trading of financial contracts during the daytime, side by side with the raucous, centuries-old open-outcry system.
- But, then, you also insist that they conform to a centuries-old ecclesiastical system that may conflict with equally venerable ideas that they inherited from their families or social standing in the world.
- Missionaries are generally welcomed throughout the nation, although their teachings seldom replace centuries-old systems of spiritual belief and practice that form the basis of cultural unity.
- Since 1868, Japan's rulers, worried by ever-greater foreign encroachment, had overthrown the centuries-old system of the Shōgun, who acted as regent for the emperor.
- There is a bitter irony here, that the party that insists it is conservative and patriotic now threatens the centuries-old political system that lies at the core of the US's national identity.
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