Sentence examples for nearest substitute from inspiring English sources

At a certain point, most adults -- and all suburbanites -- realize that they cannot live rock 'n' roll lives, so they accept the nearest substitute: a rock 'n' roll attitude.

For the past 100 years or so they have been happily disporting themselves on a strip of coastline in southern California where the blue and gold light is the nearest substitute the New World can offer for the radiance of ancient Greece.

When sampling could not be performed at the selected site, the nearest substitute site was sampled; however, only samples collected from the same site before and after monochloramine conversion were included in analyses.

The system encourages banks to treat the agencies' paper as a near substitute for Treasuries, so that concentration limits do not apply.

Preferreds range all the way from pure debt obligations (differing from bonds only in having a $25 denomination and in trading on the New York Stock Exchange) to near substitutes for equity (preferreds that automatically convert into common shares in the near future).

Is resistance as critical when we have near-substitutes that clinicians can deploy, such as imipenem in the case of E coli?

In the second formula, 95* 0.85^py), we're basically saying that 95% of the market is influenced by another big factor: competition -- what items are out there which are near-substitutes for our item.

You can buy candied chestnuts, but Mr. Carsberg also says that simply cooked and puréed chestnuts make a near-perfect substitute.

Faced with a keen sense of grievance and a distinct lack of super-villains, Andy launches a low-budget campaign of terror on the nearest available substitutes - an assortment of jocks, bullies and minor jerks.

Thus, for the year 2011, we use the former as a near perfect substitute of the latter.

JJ O'Donnell steamed into the left channel and fizzed a ball into the near post; substitute Rendell, a journeyman of lower-league sides including Cambridge United and Torquay, applied a deft touch and the ball nipped past Declan Rudd and into the net.