Sentence examples for it is meant to replace from inspiring English sources

It is meant to replace the weak Kyoto Protocol, the previous climate treaty.

In America, making ethanol from corn usually takes more energy and creates more nasty emissions than burning the petrol it is meant to replace.

But proponents say it should pay for itself within two years, because the intravenous feeding that it is meant to replace, called total parenteral nutrition or T.P.N., costs $150,000 a year per patient.

This image constitutes a form of pluralism, and, like the reductionism it is meant to replace, it can be either synchronic or diachronic.

Far cheaper per megabyte than the flash memory it is meant to replace, the format is backed by the likes of Toshiba, Samsung and Universal Music Group.

One particular challenge is that it is not always clear from an environmental point of view whether an alternative active substance really is better than the banned active substance it is meant to replace.

This, however, was even more coercive than the plural society it was meant to replace.

Yet the result would be even better than it seemed on this sunny August morning: the world's first successful rocket injera stove — twice as efficient and many times more durable than those it was meant to replace.

So it's meant to replace cash.

In that way, it's meant to replace email as well as other social tools used within enterprises.

The Transformer Prime's NVIDIA Tegra 3 chipset was seen in early benchmarks to be a considerable step above the chipset it was meant to replace.