Sentence examples for of supplant from inspiring English sources

The assistance that the US will be offering will be mostly technical and advisory, meant to support Nigeria's military instead of supplant it.

Will this achieve Mr Farage's short-term goal of supplanting the Lib Dems as Britain's third party?

"XXX" dances with the idea of supplanting espionage pictures but finally cranks up a bunch of chases.

I will merely say that curling is in no immediate danger of supplanting football as the national sport.

In place of the old idea of supplanting all foreign traits by a standard pattern there grew up the idea of cultural "pluralism".

In the short run, it would hasten a trend of supplanting coal-burning power plants with natural gas plants, which emit less carbon dioxide.

And in Bogot Colombia, traffic police were replaced with mimes in the hope of supplanting corruption and violence with playful street theater.

On the other hand, it has no interest in revolutionizing an international system from which it has benefited greatly, or of supplanting U.S. global leadership.

With Theresa May "embarking on challenging domestic reforms... she should be tested by a leader of the opposition who has a credible chance of supplanting her.

By Nick Pachelli November 5, 2016 Mary Keitany, who will run for her third consecutive New York City Marathon victory on Sunday, follows a strategy of supplanting analysis and overthinking with instinct.

As a sort of mind-game, the philosopher urged readers to imagine two doctrinally different Christian churches standing side by side, with neither having any hope of supplanting the other.