Sentences with phrase «as a placeholder»

«God» is a term being used as a placeholder for things that some human beings either don't understand or don't want to accept.

My favorite way to fill frames when I don't have the perfect piece of art is to buy pretty paper, maps, or wrapping sheets from places like Paper Source to use as placeholders until I can fill it with something that I love or that means something to me.

But baby teeth serve as placeholders for permanent teeth, so you want to keep them around until they've served their purpose.

The picture, while exemplifying my personality, is probably not «professional» enough for a resume, and is thus acting as a placeholder for the moment.

These substitutes essentially act as placeholder until a full - time teacher can provide a comprehensive lesson plan.

The WFP endorsed a Harlem lawyer, Kenny Schaeffer, to serve as a placeholder candidate for governor.

Think of this date as a placeholder until a real once is announced.

This will serve as our placeholder while the guide is being prepared.

They could also be used as placeholders at the table.

So far the app is just used as a placeholder with videos to help sell you the watch but soon it will be used to pair the wearable with your device as well as downloading dedicated Apple Watch apps.

The WFP techincally placed Kenny Schafer as a placeholder for its AG nominee.

He put his name on petitions as a placeholder until the party finds another candidate to run against incumbent Democrat Stephanie Miner.

Previously we saw what can only be referred to as placeholder images in the OS but now that the device has progressed a bit more, there's now official renders taking those spots.

Matters like hospital visitation problems are a result of using the marriage status as a placeholder for too many tangentially related issues.

Libertarians submitted thousands of signatures on behalf of a different candidate as a placeholder earlier this month.

Lipp — a reluctant candidate who initially agreed to run as a placeholder while the GOP searched for a more experienced challenger — didn't expect her political career to be quite this short - lived.

It treats its characters as placeholders for philosophical arguments and spends the majority of its running time trying to «solve» existential mysteries without adequately exploring them.

It was built at first just as a placeholder site.

Hopefully, the specs weren't just there as placeholders.

The installation of the works function as placeholders for past or future «masterpieces,» or prize possessions and I hope I make visible to viewers certain hanging traditions and hierarchies.

Lorem ipsum refers to the ubiquitous filler text used in publishing and graphic design as a placeholder for other content.

For context, I'm developing internal in - house applications (front end for some databases, reporting software, etc.) for a company and I'm considering using the Microsoft icons as placeholders icons when I show prototypes of the software to my superior since they are similar to the icons I've considered purchasing for use in the application.

Vergne thinks Formula E rival Buemi would only have been used as a placeholder by the team until another talented Red Bull junior driver could be promoted, saying that he'd «probably get fired after one year, with no options in top teams, as the car is not good enough».

He'd give Wenger options and would act as a placeholder where we lacked a player of the moment.

The drawings work as a placeholder for the slippery space between the camera and body as Hubbard diagrams the ways in which our orientations towards each other matter.

I prefer active management, and if I can not find an active manager, I will use ETFs as a placeholder till I do.»

However, investors viewed this 2018 cost guidance as a placeholder, as Spirit Airlines entered the year on the verge of signing a new pilot contract.

But this is not so much an explanation as a placeholder for an explanation, or so a contemporary consensus would have us believe.

More than a half - dozen ball players mill about the gym in various roles, one directing drills, others participating as placeholders in them, and others still observing the action.

While out shopping, he became frustrated that he was most often addressed as a placeholder, «What did mom send you in for?»

They might then decide to look for an incumbent legislator interested in capping a career in public office by serving as a placeholder attorney general for seven months, but if none arises, then Underwood — a former deputy federal solicitor general and one - time Supreme Court clerk for Thurgood Marshall — could become a popular pick.

Commisso also turned aside the speculation from some quarters that his father, County Legislature Majority Leader Frank Commisso, was only in the race as placeholder for him, a scarecrow of sorts to dissuade others from entering the race.

His name was intended only as a placeholder for the real candidate.

The term remains as a placeholder note in Article 1 of the state constitution, New York's Bill of Rights, despite being repealed by statewide vote in 1962.

In the meantime, they installed longtime party member Kenny Schaeffer as a placeholder on the attorney general line.

The idea of leaving Morelle as a placeholder was first considered on Monday night, as members of the Democratic conference slowly reached agreement that Silver had to go.

We don't know what it actually is, but for now people use the term dark energy as a placeholder to describe the attributes of this mystery.

As a puckish example, he wonders why the book of Genesis didn't include God - inspired truths — «Mars is a rusty place with volcanoes,» say — as placeholder proofs that thousands of years later could certify His existence.

The use of zero as a placeholder appeared in several different ancient cultures, such as the ancient Mayans and Babylonians.

But Catching Fire is an improvement over last year's quadrilogy opener, even if designed and executed as a placeholder (complete with a cliffhanger ending) rather than a full - blooded story on its own.

Amazon Italy has listed Xenoblade Chronicles X with a June 26th release date which is odd, as Amazon typically uses the end of the month as a placeholder date until we have more confirmation.

This one gets the the bottom spot as a placeholder, simply for the sheer audacity of the movie, and I reserve the right to bump this up later after a second visit with the flick.

All popular user data in the company must be insertable as a placeholder.

His phone call, his visit, his expression are what make this job, and my role as a placeholder, absolutely worth it.

Setting New «Sub» Standards The demands of the school day are altering the role of substitute teachers as placeholders or baby sitters.