It underlined that although the SNP had long dreamed of displacing Labour as Scotland's dominant centre-left party, any prospect of doing so with a genuinely radical policy agenda had been shelved in the 1980s.
The hulking, purpose-built Jack/St Malo platform sits in ultra-deep waters of over 2,000m – displacing as much water as 350 jumbo jets would – drilling down to reservoirs 6,000 metres beneath the seabed (approximately 14 Empire State Buildings deep).
He suggests that it might be possible to hide 53,000 sq m of luxury development with a trick of the light, noting that "the tower's reflective skin and slender profile camouflage with the landscape, abstracting and displacing the valley and sky".
But, he realised, it's just a refinement of its aims: just like any company, it wants to build a "moat" – a unique selling point that protects it from would-be rivals undercutting or displacing it.
The strong surge of Tory support for which she had been hoping materialised right across southern England, but in the North swings were low and in Scotland it was Labour who gained ground, displacing as they did so Mrs Thatcher's likely Scottish Secretary, Mr Teddy Taylor.
Like apples, increased production of strawberries and asparagus are also displacing imports, while celery and broccoli are rising but not fast enough to keep up with demand.
More than 10m smart garments are expected to be sold in 2015, displacing conventional chest straps and other sports enthusiast gear.
Challenging them is one thing, but displacing them in a dfferent matter.
Baoding, close to Shijing township, came top of the list, displacing Xingtai (pictured above), another city in Hebei which took the crown in 2013.
At airline check-in counters, say, computers are displacing employees from mundane tasks like printing boarding passes.
Chilled soup is displacing tinned soup.
