It was formed in 1938 from part of the former Far Eastern Territory, which had supplanted (1926) the Soviet Far Eastern Republic.
In the south was Characene, while to the northeast of Ctesiphon, which had supplanted Seleucia as the Parthian capital, was Garamea, with its capital at modern Kirkūk.
Another issue Flint noted was the proliferation of smartphones, which have supplanted a photography service that was once 35% of his business.
And what they lived through has become a public scandal that has focused attention on the growing danger posed by these militias, which have supplanted drug gangs as the violent overlords who run many of Rio's slums and their illicit enterprises, often with links to corrupt police officers and politicians.
Around a large circular table on the 36th floor of the Eurotower that soars over the city centre red-light district, Mario Draghi chairs the meetings of the governing council of the European Central Bank which have supplanted EU summits and finance ministers' sessions as the key events deciding the fate of the euro — testimony to the failures and fecklessness of the EU's elected leaders.
In 1956, the government introduced simplified characters, which have supplanted the older traditional characters in mainland China.
And I think that Bush opened a window into the most striking aspect of the 2012 presidential election: the degree to which pessimism has supplanted optimism in a country usually inclined toward the latter and predisposed toward politicians fluent in the language of uplift.
From Capitol Hill to talk radio stations and Internet sites, conservatives seized on the issue, which for many has supplanted abortion as the most important battle in the nation's cultural wars.
The correct "writing," he went on expertly, appears only on his premium fake: a copy of the Goyard Saint Louis carryall, which in recent months has supplanted styles by Vuitton and Fendi as a totem of blue-blood chic.
And then there is Linux, which many believe already has supplanted Be.
