Sentence examples for provided a substitute from inspiring English sources

In boarding a Singapore Airlines flight from Hong Kong to San Francisco, I was told a late-booking first-class passenger had been given the Hermolis kosher meal I had ordered and the airport caterer had provided a substitute meal with an inferior brand.

Catching a few more rays No sow's ear Six degrees of mobilisation A silent healer Flushed with pride Lost in cyberspace Zap, crackle and pop Lighting the way Look, no hands Altered states A knight in digital armour ReprintsPhones spread quickly because they provided a substitute for travel and poor infrastructure, helped traders find better prices and boosted entrepreneurship.

Firms used to use their reputation to become architects of deals; now they are just assemblers, and that has changed their culture.Last, and perhaps most important, a vast profusion of laws, regulations and direct government interventions has provided a substitute for reputation, albeit a toxic and inadequate one.

Medieval logic did not have quotation mark conventions, which were not regularly used until after the invention of printing, and the theory of material supposition provided a substitute for them.

For those unable to make the journey home, technology provides a substitute.

"The primary treatment is to provide a substitute chemical, L-DOPA.

In nearly all industrial robotic applications, the robot provides a substitute for human labour.

They often have deprived the farm of the former landlord's contributions without providing a substitute.

MR. CASSELL -- We think that it provides a substitute adequate JUSTICE STEVENS -- That is equally adequate to the Miranda warnings?

Their archaic function was to provide a substitute for the scales that mammals left on the shore.

Private "schools of the hearth" were organized in villages to provide a substitute for the Russian educational system.