Sentence examples for world substituting from inspiring English sources

Roosevelt and his successors adapted Wilson's legacy to their own postwar world, substituting the armed standoff of the United Nations and NATO for the visionary but doomed League of Nations; but they were not practitioners of Realpolitik who paid lip service to democratic ideals in order to trick the public into pursuing the national interest.

"Blood & Oil" has been shot in the real world — the wrong real world, substituting the photogenic muscular mountains of Utah for the comparatively featureless plains of central North Dakota — without managing to look real at all.

It was in 1988 that I first realized, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the U.S. government is "the emperor wearing no clothes," ignorant of most of what goes on in the world, substituting ideology for intelligence, and expensive, largely useless contracting and technology for thinking.

Given this hypothesis, the origin of life was solely made of RNA as multifunctional biomaterials involved in genetic inheritance, cellular architecture and metabolisms; subsequently, the RNA world evolved into the modern 'DNA/protein world' by substituting many proteins for the RNA ancestors during the evolution.

Putting on Wolfson's headset didn't feel so much like switching one world for another as switching off the world altogether, substituting smooth, crystalline clarity for a video medium that we are more familiar with: the handheld shakiness of a smartphone camera capturing something urgent or horrible as it unfolds.

Updating this classic to our modern world involves substituting the global atmosphere for the trees, and the media takes on the role of the Lorax.

One of the fundamental challenges in today's world is substituting fossil fuels with renewable energies.

The need for reforming them by now is widely accepted across the developing world, and substituting less distortive welfare measures, including cash grants, for cheap energy has become a standard policy recommendation [6].

By claiming budgetary shortages, the Broadcasting Board of Governors in Washington two years ago eliminated most of VOA's quality programming in the Arab world by substituting it with a half billion dollar investment in less successful Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa.

If Beauman intended to wipe out every trace of du Maurier's world and substitute her own, she succeeded.

On Care, his fourth LP, the slightly opaque experimentalism of his old, intriguing material such as Ready for the World is substituted for a more conventional pop sensibility.