In some countries in Europe, couples are having an average of fewer than two children, effectively no longer replacing themselves.
Earlier, his inward focus had seemed like a gift, but now it had a punishing quality that only deepened when he closed the concert with a dour, blah-sounding rendition of "Born to Run". He'd taken away the joy and the release that the E Street Band doles out but was no longer replacing it with any fresh introspection; you suddenly longed to be in a much larger room with many more people.
Businesses helped the economy last quarter as well, suggesting that executives have become more confident about the economy's path or at least have decided they can wait no longer to replace dated computers and other machines.
Populations of aspen, willow, and cottonwood trees could no longer successfully replace themselves, since their seedlings were getting hammered by the ravenous herds.
Nowadays the practice is everywhere: you have to buy a new toothbrush because the batteries can no longer be replaced.
Presidential debates no longer exist, replaced by a jingoistic televised competition, "The Patriot Game," that tests candidates' love of country and belief in American exceptionalism.
Mr. Squadron said he had been assured that laying the fiber would take no longer than replacing the copper wires, but he said he did not know if that was true.
For Marriott, the pact expands its environmental efforts, which started in 2005 with a linen and bedding reuse program, where sheets and towels would no longer be replaced nightly during a guest's stay unless requested.
But, that day, the police van that had once been routinely parked outside the main entrance to the building, alongside a metal police-protection barrier, was no longer there, replaced with rolling patrols that would regularly pass by.
The normal laws of political nature – the equation that regards a vote as the reward for a policy position and vision– no longer apply, replaced by the simpler laws of celebrity.
