Sentence examples for substitute for action from inspiring English sources
Dialogue was a substitute for action.
"However, his package is no substitute for action.
So montages of anxious faces substitute for action.
Thinking good thoughts is no 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 I came into a situation in which dialoguing substituted for action.
The fact that the EBMgmt seminar produced nothing tangible after one year means that talk has substituted for action.
Instead of seizing this once-in-a-lifetime chance to promote a radical, progressive and even populist political and economic agenda, much of the left has retreated into a familiar and introspective comfort zone, in which navel-gazing and self-flagellation become substitutes for action.
1. Knowledge and willpower are no substitutes for action.
The play, referred to in a reputable classical drama handbook as "perhaps the least dramatic of all Greek tragedies," is broken into distinctive (some might say disjunctive) movements, in which pageantry of language often substitutes for action.
