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archaic and joint
Early in his presidency he tackled the archaic five department structure of the Australian Parliament, and achieved a streamlining to 3 departments – one for each Chamber and one looking after joint services.

archaic and temple
This building replaced a hekatompedon ( meaning " hundred-footer ") and would have stood beside the archaic temple dedicated to the Athena Polias.
In 1907, the sanctuary of Athena " of the Brazen House " ( Chalkioikos ) was located on the acropolis immediately above the theatre, and though the actual temple is almost completely destroyed, the site has produced the longest extant archaic inscription of Laconia, numerous bronze nails and plates, and a considerable number of votive offerings.
Those of these sculptures that belonged to the temples within the walls, present a peculiar and archaic style of art, and are universally recognized as among the earliest extant specimens of Greek sculpture Those, on the contrary, which have been found among the ruins of the temple on the opposite hill, are of a later and more advanced style, though still retaining considerable remains of the stiffness of the earliest art.
The pediment has been described by the New York Times as the " finest example of archaic temple sculpture extant ".
That day was named Q ( uando ) S ( tercum ) D ( elatum ) F ( as ): since the temple site in historic times was obviously kept clean, this expression is an heritage of high antiquity, an archaic fossil ritual reminiscent of a time when really the sweeping implied the removal of animal droppings.
In the first half of the fifth century BC, the Locrians demolished their archaic temple and rebuilt a new temple in the Ionic style.
On the mainland of Greece, the spring called Adrasteia was at the site of the Temple of Nemean Zeus, a late Classic temple of c 330 BC, but built on an archaic platform in a very ancient sanctuary near the cave of the Nemean Lion.
An archaic Gorgon ( around 580 BC ), as depicted on a pediment from the Temple of Artemis ( Corfu ) | temple of Artemis in Corfu, on display at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu
The sibyl, who was born near there, at Marpessus, and whose tomb was later marked by the temple of Apollo built upon the archaic site, appears on the coins of Gergis, ca 400 – 350 BCE.
During the archaic and early Republican eras, he shared his temple, some aspects of cult and several divine characteristics with Mars and Quirinus, who were later replaced by Juno and Minerva.
ionic capital of the late archaic temple of goddess Parthenos, end of 6th century B. C.
At the beginning of the 5th century BC a large ionic temple from thassian marble replaced the archaic one.
There is also a special room with the findings of Neapolis, such as remnants of the temple of Athena Parthenos ( Athina the Virgin ), archaic and classical black-figure vases and figurines.
Two of the three walls of the megaron were incorporated into an archaic temple of Hera.
As the archaic shrine was elaborated from the 2nd century BC, it was given a colored mosaic pavement representing a seascape: a temple of Poseidon on the shore, with fish of all kinds swimming in the sea.
An iconic example, the flame that burned at Delphi, was in fact an archaic feature " alien to the ordinary Greek temple ".
It was believed that during ancient times the area that the city presently occupies was covered by the sea, but the proto-greek and archaic period remains ( Poseidon temple ) that were unearthed at Akovitika region prove the opposite.
The temple was built on the site of an older archaic temple.
Five different plans of the temple have been published following recent excavations on the Capitoline Hill that revealed portions of the archaic foundations.
In the 2nd century CE Pausanias noted at Argos, in the temple of Zeus Larissaios, an archaic image of Zeus with a third eye in the center of his forehead, allegedly Priam's Zeus Herkeios purloined from Troy.
The archaic temple was completely reconstructed and enlarged in 117 BC by Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus after his victory over the Dalmatians.
* An archaic name for Kōryū-ji, a Shingon temple in Kyoto.

archaic and built
In one version, the name comes from the archaic Romanian word chișla ( meaning " spring ", " source of water ") and nouă (" new "), because it was built around a small spring, located at the corner of Puşkin and Albișoara streets.
Linguist Giuliano Bonfante has speculated, on the grounds of his cult and of the meaning of his name, that he should be a very archaic deity and might date back to an era when Latins lived in dwellings built on pilings.
Despite its archaic appearance, the five-domed Assumption Cathedral in the kremlin was built as late as 1764.
The archaic city was built under a provincially urban planning and extended throughout the whole south hill.
The Gaol was built of large blocks of local granite in 1832 and continued to be used as such until 1979, despite its archaic construction.
In it, Chávez sought to create an archaic ambiance through the use of modal polyphony, harmonies built on fourths and fifths, and a predominant use of wind instruments ( Parker 2001 ).
His Più Belle Cartoline Del Mondo (" Most Beautiful Postcards Of The World ") are elaborate stories built around 60s and 70's kitsch postcards, often representing children or couples, written in an absurdly baroque and archaic style and lexicon.
There are numerous locations in California where extensive developments have been built atop archaic landslides, which have not moved in historic times but which ( if both water-saturated and shaken by an earthquake ) have a high probability of moving en masse, carrying entire sections of suburban development to new locations.
While Amtrak has retired cars built with drawing rooms, they are currently still used by Via Rail Canada, although the traditional nomenclature is seen as archaic and are officially sold as " triple bedrooms ".
The archaic ruins stretch up to the site of the acropolis of the ancient city, dedicated to Pythios Apollo and Poliada Athina, and the Venetian Kástro, built over it.
Large-size tumuli of the late archaic period were built at Chiusi, and modern scholars have tried to associate these ( especially Poggio Gaiella ) with the legendary tomb of Porsena.

archaic and upon
The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.
Through them, he attempted to dismantle what he felt were archaic Spanish institutions, and to give to his people a society based upon general education, religious liberty and social and political equality.
Around 1640 Jenkins revived the In Nomine, an archaic form for a consort of viols, based upon a traditional plainsong theme.
Ralph M. Williams, on John ’ s state of mind upon returning to Aberglasney, writes, “ It is here that we first begin to know something of his personality and see for the first time the conflict in him between the dreamy romantic and the practical man of business that runs through his life .” Having grown up in the archaic monastic buildings of Aberglasney it was not surprising that Dyer had developed an interest in antiquities and his love with nature, as fostered in his 1716 Pindaric ode version of Grongar Hill.
Noted Yale critic of secular and sacred literature Harold Bloom, who classes these the book of Moses and the Book of Abraham among the “ more surprising ” and “ neglected ” works of LDS scripture, is intrigued by the fact that many of their themes are “ strikingly akin to ancient suggestions ” that essentially restate “ the archaic or original Jewish religion, a Judaism that preceded even the Yahwist .” While expressing “ no judgment, one way or the other, upon the authenticity ” of LDS scripture, he finds “ enormous validity ” in the way these writings “ recapture … crucial elements in the archaic Jewish religion .… that had ceased to be available either to normative Judaism or to Christianity, and that survived only in esoteric traditions unlikely to have touched Smith directly.
It fell upon Konstantin to not only preside over an archaic fleet but also to see it through the disaster of the Crimean War.
The concept of material networks is also ontologically unclear and somewhat archaic, depending upon a material / ideal dichotomy that has largely been abandoned, by both scientists and philosophers, during the latter half of the twentieth century.
This so-called military revolution transformed the military from an archaic militia-like force to the regular army, which drew upon military recruits called, predominantly from enserfed peasantry, to serve for 25 years, which, given the expected life span of most Russian serfs at the time, essentially meant that they would serve for life.
This is similar in respects to the archaic type of European wooden plane, in which the blade is fixed in place by tapping down upon a wooden wedge.

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