Sentence examples for costly substitutes from inspiring English sources

Many developing countries that signed the Montreal protocol of 1987 asked for help in converting to the more costly substitutes, and Washington agreed in principle to provide it.

The U.S. House of Representatives last week blocked the Department of Defense from buying more costly substitutes for petroleum-based fuels.

"Throwing money at a problem is a costly substitute for effective government," the report concludes.

Still, they are an acceptable if costly substitute for the elusive petits pois.

Lafferty had been on the pitch for only 13 minutes as a frustrated, distracted and ultimately costly substitute.

The FAA believes that drones will become a safer and less costly substitute for manned aerial photography, will enable safer operations than manned aircraft for agricultural purposes, and will allow quicker responses in search and rescue and disaster relief operations.

In New York City, every single sushi restaurant surveyed sold mislabeled seafood, and 94percentt of tuna samples were actually tuna's less costly substitute, escolar.

Even if domestic institutions within destination countries were able to produce enough nurses and physicians to fill vacant positions, health care professionals from abroad are often viewed as a less costly substitute, since governments in source countries underwrite education costs.

Hospital bed-blocking occurs when hospital patients are ready to be discharged to a nursing home, but no place is available, so that hospital care acts as a more costly substitute for long-term care.

His transfer fee was the highest ever paid for an Englishman, but he seemed to spend much of his time on the bench: The costliest substitute in history.

Yet somehow Spurs let Newcastle back into the game, and it proved costly as substitutes Aleksandar Mitrovic and Ayoze Perez secured a thrilling comeback victory for a rejuvenated Magpies side.