Sentence examples for meaningful substitute from inspiring English sources

Tiny cash supplements can never be a meaningful substitute for real jobs.

But players' numbers are a meaningful substitute for their names, and universities decided that they could collect revenue and not break the N.C.A.A. rule by using the jersey numbers of leading athletes.

Eventually he got back to the question: "Oil will still dominate for the next 30-50 years, because there are no meaningful substitutes".Old lags in the industry have long quipped: "The stone age did not end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil".

Streaming Services (Hulu, Pandora) - Both are meaningful substitutes to traditional TV and radio.

"Gamified" apps, like Foursquare and its ilk, have been successful, but have also fielded criticism from major design communities for promising that an endless parade of inane digital badges could be meaningful rewards, or substitute for tangible ones.

In the three hanging sculptures titled "Skin" Mr. Ortega achieves a meaningful transformation by substituting soft materials for rigid ones.

Securing the endorsement of leading politicians from other parties for things you were planning to do anyway is no substitute for meaningful engagement and compromise.

"It's wonderful that they're thinking about how to deal with debt, but I don't think it's a substitute for meaningful thought about how to fix the underlying problem," Mary Spector, a consumer-law specialist at Southern Methodist University, said.

One-time incentive payments for getting a low-wage job do not substitute for meaningful, longer-term outcomes, like high-quality, affordable higher education; supportive work-life policies; living wages; and benefits like affordable health insurance and paid leave.

He might look at the ideology of cynicism, as he did so famously in the opening chapter of The Sublime Object of Ideology, in order to demonstrate how expressions of outrage regarding NSA surveillance practices can actually serve as a form of inaction, as a substitute for meaningful political struggle.

But Melvin A. Schwarz, the Justice Department's lead lawyer in the case, insisted that no amount of competition among the thousands of banks that issue the cards could substitute for meaningful competition between the Visa and MasterCard networks that provide advertising, technical and other support.