Sentence examples for inadequate replacement from inspiring English sources

The Four Nations, a concept which is itself a rather inadequate replacement for full tours to and by Great Britain, goes into cold storage after this tournament.

After a headed goal by Leonardo Ulloa, Leicester's equaliser was scored by a player who has spent most of the season being described as an inadequate replacement for N'Golo Kanté.

Millions find traditional Medicare more than satisfactory, and I lament that my wife and I are presently covered by an inadequate replacement plan rather than the excellent central government plan known as Medicare.

The latest Bond girl (the alluring Halle Berry) emerges from the sea like Ursula Andress, the first Bond girl in Dr No. Bond's ingenious quartermaster (John Cleese, an inadequate replacement for the late Desmond Llewelyn) has a little museum that includes the poisonous stiletto-toed shoe worn by Rosa Klebb in From Russia With Love.

More recent tragedies on the Mediterranean have prompted the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres to say that Triton is a 'woefully inadequate replacement for Italy's Mare Nostrum' ("Hundreds of Migrants", 2015, para. 4).

"Europe's Operation Triton is a woefully inadequate replacement for Italy's Mare Nostrum," said António Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, less than four months later.

Advocaat wanted to "move on" from O'Shea and Brown but Kaboul and Sebastián Coates have proved inadequate replacements in Sunderland's most dysfunctional department.

Not only were these signings woefully inadequate replacements but reports emerged of players turning up at the training ground with suitcases yet without any prior warning to the manager.

Duckworth withdrew from the blockade of Cadiz in November 1805, and inadequate replacements were provided by Collingwood.

Delayed or inadequate fluid replacement therapy results in shock, tissue hypoperfusion and sustained MODS, some being irreversible and leading to death [13].

Cardiac arrhythmia and seizure are rare but serious clinical sequelae of inadequate magnesium replacement.