Sentence examples for act in place of from inspiring English sources
"act in place of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer about someone taking on another's role or responsibility. For example, "In this emergency situation, the manager had to act in place of the absent supervisor."
The law, passed last year, allowed the state to appoint a receiver to act in place of local officials in Central Falls, which declared fiscal insolvency in May.
That is this case: Congress specified that Exchanges should be established and run by the states, but the contingency provision permits federal officials to act in place of the state when it fails to establish an Exchange.
"The trees act in place of natural plant growth," said Charlie Peek, a spokesman for the parks service in North Carolina, which has been using Christmas trees to spur dune revival for years.
Job: chairman, Channel 4 Age: 68 Industry: broadcasting 2011 ranking: 77 With the double act in place of chief executive David Abraham and programmes supremo Jay Hunt, Lord Burns – the life peer formerly known as Whitehall's "Lord Fixit" – is sitting pretty in his part-time job as Channel 4 chairman.
The formation of a hydrogen bond between the oxygen atom in the methoxy group and the NH group of the amide creates a pseudo 6-membered ring that may act in place of ϕ1 when combined with the thiophene ring.
Unlike the Assistant Chief, the Deputy had the authority to act in place of the Chief of the Air Staff CASS) if required.
Tells how the present operation of the government undermines democracy and how the Supreme Court acts in place of the executive and legislative branches.
On Tuesday Carmody acted in place of De Jersey, who was on leave, by receiving the premier Campbell Newman for election formalities at government house.
The system uses no external pump or ventilator, which could overload a baby's underdeveloped organs; instead, the baby's heart pumps blood through the umbilical cord into a low-resistance external oxygenator, which acts in place of a placenta in swapping out oxygen and carbon dioxide.
In the case of Toxoplasma cell division, the basal complex acts in place of an actin-independent contractile ring in the late stages of cell division.
Our former PM pays tribute in the opening breath of his memoirs to Bob Barnett, the "lawyer, friend and negotiator extraordinaire" who acted for Blair in place of an orthodox literary agent and eased his passage to that £4m-odd deal with Random House.
