Sentence examples for been allowed to replace from inspiring English sources

The Maginot line was an abstract idea that had been allowed to replace flexible strategy and common sense.

I do not know of a single branch of government that has been allowed to replace key people... it is rare even in the NIH.

Under the relaxed rule that the court stayed on Wednesday, companies would have been allowed to replace aging equipment with its "functional equivalent" without taking on the expensive pollution-reducing requirements.

This needn't have been the case: had local authorities been allowed to replace the housing lost through the right to buy there wouldn't have been the need to restrict social housing availability to the poorest and most needy.

Enbridge, however, will be allowed to replace the Canadian segments of its ageing Line 3 from Alberta to Wisconsin.

He was allowed to replace it, symbolically, with a No. 1 jersey for the remainder of the game.

Because the accident occurred before the start of the Tour, his team was allowed to replace him.

According to L'Equipe, the Astana team will not be allowed to replace Boom because the results arrived after the cut-off point.

If the driver flunks the test before the tournament begins, that golfer will be allowed to replace it with a legal driver.

When showbiz games are allowed to replace real debate in the press and on TV, it becomes more difficult for serious, grown-up arguments to be heard.

But it would a mistake to think that the new formula must immediately be allowed to replace the old, or that it should be applied across the board of sport.