She identified the supplanting of net-curtained cheap lodgings by owner-occupiers' carefully stripped floorboards as a class struggle played out in three dimensions.
As a proud traditionalist, I take umbrage at Clyde Haberman's praise of the supplanting of the song "Sidewalks of New York" at the Belmont Stakes.
Atwood continued talking about changing mores — the supplanting of the panty girdle by nylon tights, and the consequent innovation of the miniskirt.
At the State Department, Mr. Baker's appointment, with its emphasis on debt, was cast as more of a supplanting of the Treasury Department's role.
Adams has always struck me as magnificently dour and disapproving about the supplanting of the old American aristocracy by a new social and political order built around industrial capitalism.
Totalitarianism is often distinguished from dictatorship, despotism, or tyranny by its supplanting of all political institutions with new ones and its sweeping away of all legal, social, and political traditions.
Gibson's restless intellect flits from urban anthropology (the supplanting of cigarettes by cell phones in "the gestural language of public places") to the omnipresence of surveillance cameras ("a symptom of autoimmune disease," protective mechanisms gone destructive).
The issue that comes up again and again is Zardari's supplanting of competent figures in favor of a tight, and isolating, circle of loyalists, friends from prison days and family members.
The Russian security establishment was appalled at the shattering of Russia's high technology sector by Western-backed economic reforms in the 1990's, and by the supplanting of Russia on international markets.
With the supplanting of inherited money by "incidental money" ("the kind of money you just happen to earn while you are pursuing your creative vision") came a whopping inversion.
Skins had been used for writing material even earlier, but a new, more thorough method of cleaning, stretching, and scraping made possible the use of both sides of a manuscript leaf, leading to the supplanting of the rolled manuscript by the bound book (codex).
