Sentence examples for weak substitute from inspiring English sources

Cramming would be a weak substitute.

A weak substitute was passed instead, and the dangers remain.

The gesture, they said, was a weak substitute for their larger goal: support from the White House for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

From a distance, the emblems may all look the same, but historically, the eagle has been a weak substitute for the other animals of the kingdom.

His experiments with various dialects cannot be conveyed in English, he explained, and his allusions to Arab mythology and history require a degree of familiarity for which the footnotes are a weak substitute.

But the move has opened up the show and Mr. Helms to pointed condemnations that Andy Bernard is a weak substitute for Michael Scott, and that "The Office" has yet to rebound fully from Mr. Carell's departure.

That wind and solar, as fuel-saving resources, and energy storage as a fast-burst resource, they're weak substitutes at best for firm resources.

Regarding changes in energy prices, we observe that the factors labor (CPE of 0.004), capital (0.020), and material (0.000, not significantly different from zero) are weak substitutes.

Wicked Herbals' original formula contained a relatively weak substituted cathinone called α-PPP.

The court has now been suspended and replaced by a weaker substitute.

Forp = 1 only a weaker substitute is available, and for p = ∞ the decomposition is false.