Sentence examples for acted as a substitute from inspiring English sources

This paper finds statistical evidence suggesting that the developing over the counter CDS contract acted as a substitute product for the Brady bond futures contract thereby undermining the Brady bond futures contract and contributing to its demise.

The mobile phone that acted as a substitute memory, storing numbers he would once have known by heart, became the means by which he let us into his childhood recollections.

On 18 March the US Treasury issued guidance making it clear its anti-money-laundering rules applied to administrators and exchanges offering any type of virtual cash which acted "as a substitute for real currency".

"By the time I arrived here at the end of May, I had already written several articles for the site, and I suppose those acted as a substitute for a resume, which I really do not have!

The bot acts as a substitute for the human worker.

But the military council said it would not act as a substitute for a "legitimate" government.

I love to see medical treatments that happen to act as a substitute for chemotherapy.

The trust could also act as a substitute for a will by naming other beneficiaries.

The hostile takeover was thought to act as a substitute form of pressure.

Without a visual reference (or an instrument that acts as a substitute), humans become disoriented in minutes.

In the document, the charity said: "We have created a structure which acts as a substitute parent and extended family.