The phrase
"adequate substitute" means a replacement or alternative option that is good enough or suitable to fulfill a certain need or purpose.
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I really hope this year is the year when we lift the league title and I hope injuries to key players and wenger's refusal to
sign adequate substitutes won't hinder us
I for one will continue calling him a RIDICULOUS manager, why, because we play top quality teams giving them advantages in various areas to use against, playing players who do not have all the required requisites to play in very important positions, showing massive favoritism to players who are not even fully fit, over using players, while there are
adequate substitutes on the bench or in the squad and not fixing the deficiencies in the team because of stubbornness.
It doesn't make as much of an impact as Atomic expected, but if you're stuck on a budget and can't afford one of the more popular $ 60 games right now, this is a
certainly adequate substitute for $ 15.
Users many not have access to six million Google Play apps, but the availability of thousands of Google Assistant apps may be a more than
adequate substitute given the low price point.
But voluntary rules wouldn't be
an adequate substitute, Sen. Ed Markey (D - Mass.)
Experts agree that investing in real estate is not
an adequate substitute for investing in the a variety of stocks.
Moreover, in a society in which tolerance has been regarded as
an adequate substitute for truth, we have no idea what it would mean to have an honest politics.
While much of his life and poetry find
an adequate substitute in sensuous splendor, whether in «fire - fangled» lines of poetry or in the weather at Key West, these pleasures of the secular hedonist were, strangely enough, part of his gradual coming into the fold of the Catholic Church.
Utterly ignoring the devastating failure of the Romantic sensibility in the twentieth century, Gardner echoes Matthew Arnold's hope that literature will serve as
an adequate substitute for religion.
In short, he writes, «Most Chinese today appear to believe that the new China can move forward very well without religion and that the new values, stressing «serve the people,» are
adequate substitutes for religious disciplines.»
The Christian pastor has
no adequate substitutes for the vocabulary which includes such words as «God,» «faith,» and «grace.»
There is no delivery of sexual information in the classroom, in line with the Catholic church which teaches that: «The role of parents in education is of such importance that it is almost impossible to find
an adequate substitute.»
Were failure not possible,
an adequate substitute would be impossible to find.
Nothing is
an adequate substitute for the Bible.
Will tamari be
an adequate substitute for the soy sauce?
Can you (or any other brilliant commenters here) think of
an adequate substitute for that can of tomatoes?
Besides palm oil, it is characterized by greens such as cassava and sweet potato leaves; spinach makes
an adequate substitute.
It's also equally important that women aren't led to believe that these newer formulas are
an adequate substitute for breast milk, even if they do, in time, show evidence of helping with brain development.
We wanted to ensure his inclusion in all safe activities, or for the teacher to find
an adequate substitute for the entire class.
While we continue to see low breastfeeding rates in the United States when compared to most other parts of the world, the research on the benefits of breast milk is rock - solid — there is simply
no adequate substitute for breast milk when it comes to protecting the health of your baby.
Rope is the least durable with nylon serving as
an adequate substitute if you prefer rope supports but desire more durability.
Nylon can be
an adequate substitute, and rope can be suitable for the support.
«Long before the elephants are no more and the mammoths used up,» the Times hoped, «
an adequate substitute may [be] found.»
Please note that powdered whey is never
an adequate substitute for whole, unprocessed, liquid whey.
And for the record, no, spit is not
an adequate substitute for the real thing.
There is the implication that democratic governance, and by extension meritocracy, is not
an adequate substitute for animal instinct when lives are at stake.
If you've watched and enjoyed the first Final Destination so many times that it's becoming stale, I suppose you might find this newer, slicker, and more expensive production to be
an adequate substitute when you feel the need for some cheap thrill horror.
Curious to know whether the D - BOX Motion Control option makes
an adequate substitute for the subwoofer, given how infrequently the picture engages the LFE channel.
It's
an adequate substitute for a more traditional making - of featurette.
Are social interactions online
an adequate substitute for hanging around by the swings in the park swapping football cards?
McLuhan understood that the consumption and manipulation of symbolic, abstract information is not
an adequate substitute for concrete, firsthand involvement with objects, people, nature, and community, for it ignores the child's primary educational need — to make meaning out of experience.
Online learning alternatives do exist and the education system continues to be disrupted by new technologies, but there is as yet no evidence to suggest online learning can act as
an adequate substitute for the physical place of learning: the school.
In the words of Justice O'Connor, who wrote at length on this issue in a concurring opinion, the secular options «need only be
adequate substitutes for religious schools in the eyes of parents.»