Sentence examples for attempt to substitute from inspiring English sources

Strand's speakers, cut off from the source of their sadness, sometimes attempt to substitute vanity.

The attempt to substitute the chemical stimulant by a locally produced, biological product was unsuccessful.

The justices denied the Nevada case and its attempt to substitute Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein for Whitaker.

The roboticist also decried what she characterized as the industry's attempt to substitute public demonstrations for rigorous testing without making its own testing protocols available for public scrutiny.

Any attempt to substitute vernacular forms without taking into account the values that the older forms held is considered a failure of adopted modernist attitudes.

Browne is not the cause of the reductions in state funding; it is an attempt to substitute other funding sources for lost government revenue.

"A decade ago, the joke was that spell-checkers regularly attempted to substitute the word 'speciation' with 'speculation,'" Mohamed Noor, an evolutionary biologist at Duke University, wrote in a commentary in the journal Nature.

Furthermore, because the ability of the human organism to receive and process symbols is strictly limited, the skillful propagandist attempts to substitute quality for quantity in his choice of symbols.

Arrizabalaga apologised on Monday to Sarri, his teammates and supporters for refusing the manager's attempts to substitute him in the final minute of extra time before the penalty shootout won by Manchester City.

It was a remarkable finale and an unorthodox one, too, bearing in mind Sarri's failed attempts to substitute Arrizabalaga just before the game headed into the penalty shootout.

The rapidly increasing consumption of energy and fossil fuel dominated energy structure have caused great pressure on energy security and carbon reduction policies in China, and the Chinese government has attempted to substitute fossil with non-fossil energy.