Sentence examples for supplanting from inspiring English sources

In continental Europe, similar movements have thrived, even supplanting the traditional parties of the working class.

The decision about whether to introduce a British bill of rights, supplanting the European convention on human rights, is to be passed to an independent commission.

Xiaomi's chief executive and co-founder Lei Jun aims to take the $45bn £28.7bnn) startup from one of the world's top five smartphone manufacturers, purely based on sales within China, to the world's biggest, supplanting Samsung and Apple in the process.

Will this achieve Mr Farage's short-term goal of supplanting the Lib Dems as Britain's third party?

Monuments to martyred Tigers overshadow temples and churches, seemingly supplanting the local religions.

It's being prevented from doing so by a failure of leadership in France and Germany......I support an increase in resources for the IMF but what I want to do is make sure David Cameron and George Osborne are clear that directly or indirectly this money will not end up supplanting the European Central Bank and putting liquidity in for Spain or Italy.

English is gradually supplanting French as the language of business, an indication of the growing international orientation of the new business class.Of late, Egypt has become an even more eager reformer.

And the neighbouring, poorer boroughs have always opposed enormous office blocks supplanting local communities.

HSBC became the world's biggest bank last year, supplanting Bank of America, according to The Banker magazine, which ranks 1,000 banks by their holdings of tier-one capital.

Indeed, the acceleration of credit during the securitisation era was not matched by an acceleration in economic output.In the long run growth depends on replacing obsolete methods of production with better ones, and supplanting old industries with new ones.

But the message was not only more sober tough challenges supplanting the euphoria of victory and so on but also, it seemed, more precisely calculated to emphasise Mr Blair's distance from the party's traditional instincts.In part of his speech, Mr Blair launched a sharp attack on the claim that he is nothing more than a more competent sort of Tory.