Sentence examples for superseding them from inspiring English sources

The parallel dramas underline the universal theme of primal jealousy, as fathers confront the prospect of their sons superseding them.

He tries to limit troubling pictures, by either forbidding them (soldiers' coffins) or superseding them with triumphalist tableaus of his own (that aircraft carrier).

Accusing the company of violating the settlement, he said that it is punishing men who went on strike by superseding them by the "so-called loyalists" and the men threaten an immediate strike which will involve all the railways.

Illumina's ELAND algorithm and the MAQ (Mapping and Assembly with Quality) used to be the short-read mappers of choice, but a new generation of more efficient programs such as Bowtie, BWA (Burrows-Wheeler Alignment Tool) and BFAST (Blat-like Fast Accurate Search Tool) are gradually superseding them.

She can well stand comparison with them, and in some respects supersedes them.

Plans for two Christmas specials have been abandoned – partly because the film has superseded them.

First printed in 1483, the Alfonsine Tables were an important source of information for the young Nicolaus Copernicus before his own work superseded them in the 1550s.

The first bubble chamber was just an inch wide, but physicists built larger and larger ones through the 1960s into the 1970s before other technologies superseded them.

At one point, he has humans becoming extinct, only to be reinvented thousands of years down the line by the super-computers that had superseded them.

There are risks in getting designers to focus, quite literally, on the nuts and bolts of current products, rather than on the disruptive technologies that can supersede them.

In fact, if Republicans want to eliminate these regulations, all they need to do is pass climate legislation to supersede them.