Sentence examples for being a substitute for from inspiring English sources

"We have no illusions of this being a substitute for government," said Daniel Zingale, Ms. Shriver's chief of staff and a senior adviser to the governor.

"I don't think that a lot of Angelenos have bought into high-rise living as being a substitute for owning your own lot and having your own home on that lot," Mr. Habibi said.

Theodor Adorno wrote: "The prospective fascist may long for the destruction of himself no less than for that of the adversaries, destruction being a substitute for his deepest and most inhibited desires … He realises that his solution is no solution, that in the long run it is doomed.

Most research on the political consequences of international migration conceptualizes financial remittances as being a substitute for state-provided assistance.

However, the knowledge gap in corrosion resistance in physiological environment has prevented it from being a substitute for human hard tissues.

Yet, most studies on the political consequences of international migration conceptualize financial remittances as being a substitute for state-provided assistance.

Dialogue was a substitute for action.

Dialogue was a substitute for narrative.

Homebake was a substitute for heroin.

Surely he was a substitute for a blander, vacationing host?

Sometimes it was a substitute for a coherent plot.