age-old

Harvesting olives is an age-old ritual and also an economic necessity for many Palestinians, but, according to the UN, it is increasingly precarious.

The first was an age-old animation problem: creating realistic water.

Critics accuse Kenya of abandoning an age-old legal principle of "non-refoulement", which prohibits the forced return of people to countries where they may face persecution.

They are accused of ignoring environmental concerns and taking to heart an age-old saying: "There is no land in Ghana which doesn’t have gold, even in the top soil. Ghana is gold."

They had encountered an age-old phenomenon common in insular communities cut off from home.