Sentence examples for inadequate substitutes from inspiring English sources

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.

Surrogate measures (cardiac function, exercise capacity, bone density, tumor size) are inadequate substitutes for direct measurement of QOL.

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.

Thus, if introduced species are inadequate substitutes for native frugivores, the rapid decline and extinction of native frugivores is even more likely to dramatically alter plant assemblages (Bond 1994; Sekercioglu et al. 2004; Traveset and Richardson 2006) and reduce overall native plant diversity (Webb and Peart 2001).

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.