Sentence examples for not only superseded from inspiring English sources

When Einstein unveiled general relativity, he not only superseded Isaac Newton's theory of gravity; he also unleashed a new way of looking at physics that led to the modern conception of the Big Bang and black holes, not to mention atomic bombs and the time adjustments essential to your phone's GPS.

There is certainly a case for My Fair Lady to be part of this tradition, since it not only supersedes Pygmalion dramatically, but provides the work with an ending implied by but missing from the original play.

The pain was only superseded by the fact that I couldn't control the direction of my floating body.

Yet the city not only escapes and supersedes but also retains vestiges of the 'the national as container of social process and power' (Sassen 2003: 57).

Mix's attorneys said "the superseding indictment not only fails to mention that AT&T--and not Kurt Mix--mighaveave been responsible for as many as 253 of the 346 voice-mail deletions.

Two writers this century have already tried to raise a substantial edifice on these flimsy foundations: but the biographies of Wilbur Cross and F Holmes Dudden are likely to be superseded by this new effort which not only draws on more than 40 newly discovered letters, but even includes three hitherto uncollected pictures of Fielding (not very exciting ones, it has to be said).

"My executive actions not only do not prevent them from passing a law that supersedes those actions, but should be a spur for them to actually try to get something done".

So, we have been celebrating the centenary not only of Einstein's theory, but also of the long slog to supersede it.

The results of this review suggest that handheld computers have the potential not only to overcome some of the limitations of conventional paper and pencil devices but to supersede them, particularly with respect to improving timeliness of data handling.

The deal supersedes the one struck between the nations last year and allows for asylum seekers to not only be processed in the Pacific Island nation, but also to be settled there.

Not only does it provide architectural (shape and size) information, but also it is suitable for analyzing both diamagnetic and paramagnetic nanoassemblies in solution: superseding NMR limitations.