Sentence examples for inadequate substitute from inspiring English sources
Everything else is an inadequate substitute.
Domestic partnerships are a woefully inadequate substitute.
Among other things, Vermont came to see that civil unions are an inadequate substitute for marriage.
This is a poorly conceived and inadequate substitute for the serious overhaul of the immigration system that should be among Washington's most urgent priorities.
"I am going to fight to protect Medicaid," Mr. Gore said, adding: "Senator Bradley's plan would eliminate Medicaid and replace it with an inadequate substitute.
He takes the subtext of the poem to be Obama's reckoning with his absent father, for whom his grandfather is, inevitably, an inadequate substitute.
Surrogate measures (cardiac function, exercise capacity, bone density, tumor size) are inadequate substitutes for direct measurement of QOL.
Chemotherapy patients are therefore obliged to deploy a limited repertoire of familiar but hopelessly inadequate substitutes; words that can only approximate to the experience, but fail to convey anything of its true essence.
These ubiquitous defined-contribution plans are inadequate substitutes for pensions.
Support from regular infantry was lacking, and the poorly trained and motivated troops of the TO were inadequate substitutes.
Generic mentions of God and benign expressions of prayer in the public square, although constitutional, are inadequate substitutes for authentic religious service and practices of private devotion.
