Sentence examples for placeholders to from inspiring English sources

Some customers said they had hired placeholders to stand overnight in line.

"Various people, particularly the Russians, have played with placeholders to protect slots," said Mr. Chenard, the Euroconsult analyst.

Instead, they launched a movement to self-illustrate the book, inserting mini-portraits of the book's subjects into their personal copies, handy placeholders to give their imaginations a rest.

Because traditionally the aim of SCOP has been to classify every residue in the PDB, the remaining classes were maintained as placeholders to keep track of portions of a PDB structure that were not appropriate to include in SCOP.

The Ra, Rb, and Y 'atoms' are actually placeholders to define larger moieties and are not really elements.

Cheap animatics provided Meyer with placeholders to cut into the film and avoid costly surprises.

Privately, some Dell advisers considered Mr. Icahn's proposal simply a placeholder to keep negotiating with the special committee, according to people briefed on the matter.

As for Blackstone, it really is still a proposal that appears half-baked, a placeholder to meet the go-shop deadline.

Nikki Haley said Monday that she would not appoint a "placeholder" to fill temporarily the Senate seat made vacant by the retirement of Senator Jim DeMint.

From placeholder to the driver of calculus, zero has crossed the greatest minds and most diverse borders since it was born many centuries ago.

Southwest Airlines offered a nonbinding bid of $113.6 million on July 30 as a placeholder to give it the chance to look at Frontier's books and decide whether to submit a binding bid.