Sentence examples for sent to replace from inspiring English sources

Most dramatically, the shearers fight the "scabs" sent to replace them.

The crowd cheered every time he checked into the game and booed when Toney Douglas was sent to replace him early in the fourth quarter.

Hope you're happy!" The teacher sent to replace her complains: "I can't even get them to turn off their boom boxes.

The protagonist is Paul, the station's new "telemetry executive", sent to replace Thorsten, who is reported as having died in an accident.

With regimental morale at possibly its lowest in history, 800 of its troops were then sent to replace 4,000 Americans leaving Iraq's then most savage hotspot, falluja, and attempt to peacekeep around Camp Dogwood - the 'triangle of death'.

Activists, including Sea Shepherd, accused him of backing down after the Ocean Protector was repurposed for border control in Australia's north and another ship was not sent to replace it.

For nearly three decades of his 48-year reign (1572-1620), Wan Li refused to read petitions and memorandums sent to him, replace officials who retired or died or even attend his own morning audiences.

The danger—unless the new transition team Mr Bush has sent to Iraq to replace his first lot does much better is that the occupation will come to look neither efficient nor legitimate.

UK immigration minister James Brokenshire, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, said fences used at the Nato summit last week in Wales would be sent to Calais to replace the "inadequate fencing" to prove that Britain was "no soft touch".

Michael P. Starkowski, the commissioner of social services, said three computers were sent to New Haven to replace those that had been seized, and that four people from a social services agency in Waterbury had been assigned to help at the office.

In November, 2006, after the editor of the L.A. Times, Dean Baquet, was forced to resign for refusing to make the staff cuts that Tribune executives demanded, James O'Shea, the managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, was sent to Los Angeles to replace him.