Sentence examples for substitute to take from inspiring English sources

Emily's brother was among many New Englanders who elected to pay a substitute to take his place in the Union Army.

It took all the ingenuity of Enki (Lord of Sweet Waters in the Earth) to bring Inanna back to life, and even then she was released only on condition that she furnish a substitute to take her place.

Once conscripted, a man could avoid service for that particular round of the draft either by paying a $300 commutation fee or by hiring a substitute to take his place.

And a wonderful strike from distance by Ziyech was followed by a volley from the substitute to take the Dutch tally to six.

Lavery scored three goals in four games for Plymouth before he was recalled from a loan spell by Gray and he scored twice after coming on as a second-half substitute to take his tally for the season to five.

After cutting the defense budget in the 1860s, the government was advised by a military commission to increase the size of the army and to abolish the system of Remplacement, whereby rich Belgians selected for military service by lot could pay for a substitute to take their place.

Then, find some good leisure substitutes to take the space of aimless spending, such as playing a sport, taking a bike ride by the river, taking someone's dogs for a walk, visiting the beach or going for long walks in nature or your local urban environment.

But about as quickly as you can say Jason Kidd, the Celtics, like schoolkids with a classroom substitute, began to take advantage.

Phil Boyce, the program director at WABC-AM, said he would assign a substitute host to take Mr. Sliwa's place at the microphone alongside the lawyer Ron Kuby on the morning shift.

Such special occasions might be a sudden need to go through the elaborate ritual for purifying the king when he was threatened by the evils implied in an eclipse of the Moon, or in extreme cases there might be a call for the ritual installation of a substitute king to take upon himself the dangers threatening, and various other nonperiodic rituals.

A possible substitute began to take shape during Yugoslavia's period of liberalisation between 1966 and 1971, when most of the country's constituent republics came to be led by men of calibre, who carried weight in their regions and could speak for them.