M.T.A. officials say the archaic structures block officers' view of the platform.

"There is something to be said for the steadfastness of certain archaic structures."

Many buildings had been constructed out of pink sandstone, and victorian arches and white parapets seemed to accent the archaic structures.

The archaic structure is the first structure of consciousness to emerge from the "ever-present origin":

Critics praised Tolstoy's novel language, a complicated, composite thing, on the one hand, built up according to archaic linguistic structures, on the other, laconic and comprehensible.

"The problem," said Luisa Schmidt, a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, "is building a modern society on top of an archaic structure."

It became an old-fashioned, archaic structure.

This, with the board's archaic structure, guarantees "that the interests of the smaller boroughs will not be overridden."

Selim had formidable obstacles to overcome, however, in modernising the archaic structure of the Ottoman empire.

"We're struggling to transform an archaic structure that prevents teachers and students from doing their best work," he said.