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Supplant in sentence

44 examples of Supplant in a sentence

Just moving on, is it possible, taking that idea of mind, body, body-building, to supplant the first body, the biological body, with the second, the body of architecture and the built environment.
China's political model will never supplant electoral democracy, because unlike the latter, it doesn't pretend to be universal.
I can only assume that this episode was presented as a filler to supplant the other two episodes first aired on that date.
Like horror movies that use gore to supplant suspense, these movies use profanity as a crutch.
It is destined to supplant Pretty Woman as my new favorite movie to watch when I need a lift.
Pegg, worried that the new man will supplant him in his five-year-old son's affections, plans to win his former girlfriend back by running the London Marathon.
These younger leaders guided the Intifada, gaining stature within Palestinian society, as well as a feeling that they might soon supplant the traditional old guard of the PLO.
In particular, bonuses based on medium-term results of risky trades and investments must supplant bonuses based on short-term outcomes.
Here, rapid advances in robotics are particularly relevant, as increasingly sophisticated machines threaten to supplant low-cost labor in a variety of sectors.
It is impossible to know whether synthetic organisms like Venter’s JCVI-syn 3.0 or gene-editing techniques will prove to be commercially dominant in biotechnology – or indeed whether some other method will supplant both.
By the time something comes along to supplant the cars that we know – and something will, eventually –we may have had the chance to rethink our dependence on them.
If it is terminal, then, given the present power relations in the world, it can only lead to one alternative, namely international anarchy, because there is no existent system and no possible combination of states that can supplant the role which the United States currently plays.
The pioneers of microelectronics tried many strategies to supplant vacuum tubes, and they delivered a host of semiconductors and chip designs: germanium, silicon, aluminum, gallium arsenide, PNP, NPN, CMOS, and so on.
Just as the telephone did not supplant the postal system, e-mail sits alongside prior methods of communication.
Civil servants – chinovniks – were the declared enemy, and concern that the bureaucracy would prevent the revolution from being fully realized fueled radicalization, and reinforced the idea that a revolutionary party must supplant the state altogether.
Indeed, achieving sustainable, equitable economic progress must supplant GDP growth as world leaders’ main objective.
They might even try to supplant Kim by claiming power for themselves.
The hope is that this new grouping will eventually supplant the Organization of American States.
Of course, even if Macron does guide an economic turnaround, France will have neither the means nor the ambition to supplant the US on the world stage.
Finally, the involvement of heads of state and government must complement the UN process, rather than supplant it.
Continued technological progress suggests that renewable energies – from wind and solar to, perhaps, planetary winds – may ultimately supplant fossil fuels, anyway.
If the US needs added motivation to pursue this approach, it should consider this: it is China that faces the biggest challenge from North Korea’s nuclear weapons, as it works to supplant the US as Asia’s dominant power.
The idea that one must somehow supplant one's mentor, cast the previous generation out into the wilderness, and make oneself the leader of the pack seems to obsess men.
But it is folly to think that Bitcoin will ever be allowed to supplant central-bank-issued money.
Finally, technocratic committees must never supplant societal or personal responsibility for sensitive issues involving life and death; ethical obligations cannot be offloaded so easily.
Both campaigned on modernist platforms, arguing that by implementing business-friendly policies and reducing corruption, they could bring about greater economic prosperity than the establishment they sought to supplant.
Will China Really Supplant US Economic Hegemony?
The possibility that China might never supplant the US as the world’s economic hegemon is the flip side of the technology and inequality problem.
It should be noted that none of these efforts would aim to supplant existing sub-regional, regional, and global institutions.
In the first round of French presidential elections, the extreme right and left received more than 30% of the vote, with Martine Le Pen’s anti-EU National Front threatening to supplant the center-right Union for a Popular Movement as the country’s new mainstream rightist party.