Sentence examples for imperfect substitutes from inspiring English sources

Farmers affected by a weak economy can delay application for a season or two, and other fertilizers act as imperfect substitutes.

"Fundamentalist" and "evangelical" are imperfect substitutes because a) the two categories, though they overlap a lot, aren't precisely the same; and b) some of these folks consider themselves political liberals.

But if we're looking for a fundamental reason why the prices might diverge for long periods of time, I'd suggest that it's because oil and natural gas are imperfect substitutes.

We assume that foreign and domestic goods are imperfect substitutes.

These four groups are imperfect substitutes in the production of goods and services.

Subsequent empirical research has tended to document declining prices even when the objects are imperfect substitutes.

It is fast expanding into the nation's imperfect substitute for universal health insurance.

Still, it's an imperfect substitute: It offers up the mushy patriotism we felt watching the Winters Games, just without any of the genuine, or particularly admirable, achievement.

Corn ethanol, which was sold as a quick fix to the nation's dependency on oil imports, is an imperfect substitute.

He wants to see whole genomes sequenced because "we don't yet know which parts of the genome are medically relevant".Others agree that sniffing around SNPs is an imperfect substitute for doing comprehensive scans of the full human genome.

Instead his contemporaneous typewritten journals have now been published, abridged but not expurgated.Though an imperfect substitute for a reflective integrated work, the "Journals" are an indispensable source for historians and irresistibly readable.