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Rules and incentives are no substitutes for wisdom.
And the cool part is, one sachet substitutes one bath for five rand.
Well, that chance encounter inspired my imagination, and I created the Lunch Lady graphic novel series, a series of comics about a lunch lady who uses her fish stick nunchucks to fight off evil cyborg substitutes, a school bus monster, and mutant mathletes, and the end of every book, they get the bad guy with their hairnet, and they proclaim, "Justice is served!" (Laughter) (Applause) And it's been amazing, because the series was so welcomed into the reading lives of children, and they sent me the most amazing letters and cards and artwork.
Now, the analogy here is, perhaps we need to move away from using antibiotics, and if you think about it, what are good substitutes for antibiotics?
The blockchain does not engender trust between users, the blockchain simply substitutes for trust in a new, even less transparent way.
Half the teachers were substitutes and when students got into fights, the school would send them to the local county jail.
So if you want to build an indoor vertical farm, you will need to replace some of the conventional elements of farming with artificial substitutes, starting with sunlight.
BUT you had Dan Aykroyd, Robert Stack, Randy Quaid and Jackie Mason, all serviceable substitutes, who none had their best performances.
Most culpable of all is Catherine Z-J who, while undeniably easy on the eye, substitutes swishing a big dress and looking sultry for actually turning in a performance.
The movie substitutes good looks for good acting, a cryptic plot for a good story line, and self-absorption for character development.
A shameless ripoff of Jurassic Park, ATTACK substitutes sabertooth cats for dinosaurs.
So instead she substitutes a human, played by an adorable Matsumoto Jun, as a pet.
If you're looking for special effects and action as substitutes for thought, look elsewhere.
Montgomery substitutes a gimmick for quality film-making.
This "noble savage" cliche just substitutes one stereotype for another.
It lacks the imaginative quality of Alice In Wonderland, and substitutes it for random implausible scenarios.
He (or the director, or both) contain that impulse to an impressive degree in this movie and do so without the excessive sincerity that Williams often substitutes for emotion in his other parts.
Like "The Return of Josey Wales," "Iron Eagle 2," "Smoky and the Bandit 3," and "Jaws 3 & 4," the latest superficial sequel to show up, "Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj," substitutes a supporting character for the title protagonist and appears four years later.
This episode is more properly judged in the genre of videos, as this film substitutes any plot or character development, and certainly any acting for bland cinematography and overdone music.
And I mean no substitutes.
It substitutes Leatherface with Buddy (Joe B. Barton) a filthy fatso who runs a slaughterhouse and kills local interlopers.
But mounting environmental challenges, and the limited availability of commodity substitutes, suggest that a reprieve on commodity prices is not near.
Neither France nor Britain – not to mention the European Union, which is more divided than ever when it comes to military interventions – can be seen as substitutes for the US.
If one substitutes war for soccer, the comparison that comes to mind is that of the aging French military establishment, behind the Maginot Line in 1940, unable to confront General Heinz Guderian’s masterful command of blitzkrieg tank attacks.
Increasingly, Europe’s politicians regard excess liquidity and economic reform as substitutes for one another.
Alternatives do need to be explored, including more efficient use, diversification into more easily accessible substitutes, and reduction of overall consumption (though in all these cases, it is easier to deal with energy shortages than food shortages).
If there is a lesson to be learned from Turkey’s monetary-policy experiment, it is that domestic prudential regulations and monetary-policy tools should be viewed as complements to – not substitutes for – capital-account management.
And whereas previous generations of scientists quickly found new substitutes, today, in many cases, doctors are down to their last line of defense.
Along with its empty threats of interest rate hikes, there is a real danger the ECB will be labeled the central bank that barks but doesn’t bite (animal behaviorists know that barking and biting are substitutes, not complements).
The idea of using blood substitutes was first advanced in the seventeenth century, and continues to attract researchers today.
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