Sentence examples for substitute actions from inspiring English sources

Toby Herr and Suzanne Wagner (Op-Ed, March 4) are right that some people may be unable to make the transition from welfare to paid employment, but requiring them to substitute "actions to advance their children's development" is problematic.

This process might be as follows: engaging in substitute actions (i.e., excessive eating, distracting one's attention, engaging in thinking about pleasant matters, watching television more than usual, reading books on neutral topics, and excessive sleepiness); and seeking social contacts.

Certainly, some operagoers may have been incensed by the mere absence of the customary props, but for most others the main problem was that the substitute action didn't make much sense.

Although she agreed that "research can be a substitute for action," a kind of displacement activity if you will, she warned that it was important to "proceed on the basis of real, hard evidence".

Dialogue was a substitute for action.

"However, his package is no substitute for action.

So montages of anxious faces substitute for action.

Words are not a substitute for action and we need to see follow-through".

"These are in no way a substitute for action by Congress," Obama said.

But some victims' groups said the words were no substitute for action.

"But we'll never see that as a substitute for action in the trade arena.