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How to use the word substitution in a Sentence?

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As higher prices become harder to avoid, consumers may feel they have no choice but to adjust their spending patterns, whether through substitution of goods or foregoing purchases altogether, the speed and intensity at which these adjustments occur will be critical for the trajectory of the economy.

Joanna Hsu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is clear... that the plaintiffs here simply want and are entitled to the deposition of Mr. Alex Jones and that Alex Jones has continued to attempt to deliberately disregard the court's orders and attempts to manipulate the court process, while paying the fees and court's costs will reimburse the plaintiffs for costs incurred in attempting to procure Mr. Jones' deposition, it is not a substitution for his testimony.

Barbara Bellis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The way they dealt with it in 2014/15, the way they'll deal with it now, is just to take inflation on the chin, enact substitution policies, and use the oil revenue to keep public spending going.

Charles Lichfield

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There has been fairly successful substitution, mainly for food, and on some other parts that go into industrial goods... but it's mainly been on the lower end of the economic scale.

Charles Lichfield

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We played the whole game in the same personnel group, so we didn’t get into all this substitution stuff that was a problem for us last year.

Nick Saban

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That's misguided, the type of imports that we bring in from China and the scale of the imports... make substitution, at least immediate substitution, nearly impossible.

Greg Daco

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Material substitution is a false solution, it will just shift the impact to the world's forests and agricultural lands.

Jennifer Morgan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Perpetually restless, Thomas Wolfe was “without a home — a vagabond since [he] was seven” and seeking out where he belonged physically (i.e. in Asheville, his home or Harvard) as well as intellectually. This concept that he was indeed without a father led him to gain greater understanding, eventually realizing that his search for a patriarch was not merely a “father in the flesh,” but a substitution for God, a guiding light, and an alluring source of inspiration.

Nicholas Alahverdian

added by anonymous
5 years ago

This result highlights what many would call the substitution effect : when people substitute one drug for another, according to the substitution effect, people who have become dependent on prescribed opioids and lose convenient access to them may substitute with heroin. However, illicit heroin is often of unknown quality and purity... so it can increase risk of accidental overdose and poisoning.

Sheila Vakharia

Found on CNN
5 years ago

To substitute 100 percent of the kerosene use today, we will not do it with algae alone. We need a combination of different technologies to actually enable that substitution.

Thomas Brueck

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The policy of import substitution was popular during the period of decolonization ... It's one of those policies that looks good on paper but doesn't work, lots of things are imported because there is no alternative but also because they are cheaper than domestic alternatives. There are many imports poor people depend on. Even if in theory local production could pick up the slack it would take time and in the meantime we could see a sharp reduction in employment.

Timothy Kaldas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is a classic case of 'regrettable substitution' in which the replacement chemical is as toxic as the chemical it was replacing, the lack of transparency regarding the identity and safety of the chemicals used as BPA replacements makes it very difficult to assess the overall safety of the alternative.

Sharima Rasanayagam

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Butanol, which is our fuel, is an advanced fuel that's a four carbon alcohol, so inherently it has more energy, it has almost the same amount of energy as petrol, whereas bioethanol has only got 70 percent of it, you can store it and pipe it and use the existing infrastructure to distribute this, and in fact you do not need to modify an engine. So this is a genuine like-for-like substitution for oil or diesel - and moreover the fuel is not restricted to automobiles. It's currently being trialled in shipping industry and is a very good base unit for jet fuel.

Professor Martin Tangney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is like a moral substitution because (those things) are still on your to-do list.

Tim Pychyl

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is no substitution for brand and scale.

Charles Schwab Corp

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In this case, we won't make that kind of substitution.

Chris Arnold

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . .

Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance

added by anonymous
13 years ago

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

George Bernard Shaw

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Peter Drucker

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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