No modern society could function under such archaic rules.
It's an archaic rule that makes no sense.
The Mayor also hopes to get gains from another group whose productivity has been held up as an example of archaic rules and inefficiency: school custodians.
Given the tenor of the times, we soon chafed at Wellesley's archaic rules and demanded to be treated like adults.
By the mysterious and archaic rules of depreciation, the agency's Buick had reached the end of its usefulness despite being in perfect working order.
The network's position is that the studios are being protected by archaic rules designed for the television marketplace of 1970, when almost nobody talked about globalization.
In 1995, when Bill Clinton was president, you called it "an archaic rule that frustrates democracy and serves no useful purpose."
By getting rid of the archaic rule of no financial support, we've allowed athletes to train and compete.
A stymie is an archaic rule in the game of golf.
These archaic rules were dropped in the early 1960s.