Sentence examples for crude substitute from inspiring English sources
All told, a new study suggests, the middle ear was such a great invention, such an essential part of being a mammal, that once evolution had seized upon it, no crude substitute or older model would do.
But so far the results here and elsewhere have been ragged, suggesting that a computer can be a crude substitute for a live teacher, particularly when the students are so young, the stakes for them are so high and the technology is so new.
But it is not clear that in these domains, the first-best approaches are especially attractive; and even if they are, the second-best may be an unacceptably crude substitute.
Sequence identity is only a crude substitute to biological homology, and in practice, it has often been argued that structurally correct alignments are those more likely to be useful for further biological modeling.
In this sense, our validation study is of paramount important to make a verbal autopsy method a crude substitute for medical certification of several causes of death from Ethiopian context.
In this chapter we discuss the present state of research on the use of cyanobacteria as production systems for biofuels and crude oil substitutes.
Or maybe, in a city so starved for nature that a stroll through a greenmarket can feel like a restorative encounter with the great outdoors, New Yorkers are simply willing to cling to whatever crude substitutes we can find.
Crude glycerol substituted barley in the partially mixed ration (PMR) of the cows at inclusion levels of 0% (Gly0), 6% (Gly6), 12% (Gly12), and 18% (Gly18) of dietary dry matter (DM).
The EIA, for its part, says that most West Coast refinery configurations can handle various qualities of crude, so substitutes for Alaskan crude oil are available.
The reason is that other crude-oil substitutes will also see breakthroughs.
Shale oil is a substitute for conventional crude oil; however, extracting shale oil from oil shale is more costly than the production of conventional crude oil both financially and in terms of its environmental impact.
