The height of the tide is somewhere between 3.5 and 16 meters at its most powerful and displaces something like a billion tons of water through each cycle.
Without it, Europe's butter mountains and milk lakes could be displaced by something much more high tech.
Yet her relief was trivial, because the problem of the lost letter had been displaced by something quite incommensurate with it.
Eventually, we might even hope, unexamined prejudice about what women can or cannot achieve will finally be displaced by something closer to universally-acknowledged pride.
Oliver could have stuck to the sideline and Myers could have found Jones, safety officials or displaced fans — something that SNY's Kevin Burkhardt would have done in a similar situation during a Mets game.
But in the digital age, the reasoning goes, megacorporations will be displaced by something called virtual corporations -- teams of "free agents" who work together for the duration of a project, and no longer.
Traditionally, the best investors look for the opportunity that is truly transformative and won't be displaced by something that comes along that's only incrementally better.
A lot of them will turn out to be kind of a flash in the pan that, for a short period, will be successful but then will be displaced by something else.
But "Theft" is not a superb novel; there is something displaced at its heart.
Businesses typically look for people who possess skills and don't commonly consider training the displaced to do something else.
