Sentence examples for replace the phrase from inspiring English sources

This article was amended on 22 September 2011 to replace the phrase "second-generation immigrants" with "the children of immigrants".

Peers backed Dear's amendment to the antisocial behaviour, crime and policing bill that would replace the phrase "nuisance and annoyance" in the legislation with "harassment, alarm or distress" – the words used for asbos.

A few years ago there was a vague attempt by people on the internet to replace the phrase "jumping the shark", which describes the moment when something previously credible reaches a deflating point of no return, with the less catchy "nuking the fridge".

Non UK citizens are able to replace the phrase "duty to the Queen" with "duty to the country in which I am now living".

In item A15 we replace the phrase "korzystanie z toalety" with "siadanie na sedesie/wstawanie z sedesu" that more precisely described "getting on/off toilet".

Replace the phrase "60 in first-class matches at the Gabba" in the above passage from Hayden's autobiography with, say, "50-odd in first-class matches in Australia in an era of green, seam-friendly pitches and quality quicks" and Border could just as easily be talking about Phil Hughes today.

The Intel Corporation, which has been using "Sponsors of tomorrow" as its marketing theme since May 2009, is replacing the phrase with a less ethereal entreaty, "Look inside".

It replaced the phrase natural rights, which fell into disfavour in the 19th century in part because the concept of natural law (to which it was intimately linked) had become controversial with the rise of legal positivism.

As such, in the latest revision of the bill, Mr. Ellis replaced the phrase "news media" with the more encompassing "expressive works" to include any form of entertainment with news value.

The College Board would still not have avoided the mistake it made on a recent P.S.A.T. exam, where it replaced the phrase "Toni Morrison's genius" with "her," if it had consulted the Chicago discussion of pronouns and antecedents.

Meanwhile, Russian experts on Gogol have been incensed by reports that bookshops in Kiev are selling Ukrainian language versions of his novels in which nationalist-minded translators have replaced the phrase "The great Russian land" with "The great Ukrainian land".