Sentence examples for substitutes for actions from inspiring English sources

Interviews to Arabic television channels are no substitutes for actions and policies that break with the past.

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.

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.

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".

"But I came into a situation in which dialoguing substituted for action.

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

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

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