Sentences with phrase «poor substitutes for»

And with droning sound effects proving poor substitutes for quality musical tracks, late - round Volfied only agitates when it isn't wallowing in dullness.

Critics gripe that Kindles don't allow for displaying ads and are poor substitutes for the look and feel of thumbing through pages.

Gluten - free foods as they are currently manufactured are very poor substitutes for wheat flour.

Piecemeal offsets will often result in eco-islands in alien terrain — poor substitutes for habitats that blend into a wider landscape.

They are often regarded as poor substitutes for «normal» desserts (that is, those that contain flour, eggs, sugar and butter, and are usually baked), as if their taste and appearance can't match up to a certain idea of what a dessert should be.

But pageantry and neutrality are poor substitutes for a profound philosophy of human political life — and it is precisely the politics of neutrality that has made democracy's decline possible.

Virtually all are poor substitutes for the smartphone, which have big enough screens to handle most basic online chores while small enough for people to conveniently carry in their pockets.

But Delta and its Skyteam partners are a poor substitute for BMI.

For crucial tasks such as word processing, spreadsheet crunching, hardcore gaming, or graphic design, a touchscreen proved a poor substitute for a real keyboard.

Often people use the old formula of four times their yearly income to determine how much life insurance they need, and this is a poor substitute for actual analysis of your situations and options.

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«In the field of common stocks, a little bit of a great many can never be more than a poor substitute for a few of the outstanding» Phil Fisher

It's a poor substitute for a financial control board or Chapter 9 bankruptcy.

Canny market timing is a poor substitute for a real solution: Germany could simply borrow more.

Our former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Chas W. Freeman, says of President Bush's recent «surge» strategy in Baghdad and al - Anbar Province: «The reinforcement of failure is a poor substitute for its correction.»

However, these laws were never the ideal, but were always (and only) a poor substitute for love.

Santa Claus is an imposter — a poor substitute for the historical St. Nicholas and the attendant air of a vaguely British, Victorian - styled Christmas.

So here was Annie and Un Kull, which looked to me like a poor substitute for Daddy.

The millions of young folks who admire Justin Bieber are a poor substitute for the Church for whom Christ died.

At first this seems a poor substitute for the economic and domestic freedom of womanhood but in fact it was not so much a substitute as a creative idea, which, once set at work, could not be stayed in its leavening power.

The certitude that Descartes achieved was really of a rather trivial kind and a poor substitute for the wonder that he had forsaken.

This is a good example of how dried herbs aren't just a poor substitute for fresh ones.

So I threw in about 6 bay leaves as a poor substitute for fresh curry leaves.

So when I'm in the mood for cracker sandwiches, Schar can work, but they are a very poor substitute for proper cheese crackers.

The stroke is jerky, the seat teeters along the thin beam, and the roar of the flywheel is a poor substitute for the gentle slap of water against a boat.

It was necessary in that it made me realize that I was still a desirable woman and wasn't deformed after childbirth (yes, I thought I was deformed or something and even went to the dr to make sure I was still normal down there), but it also was messy and just a poor substitute for what I really needed in my husband.

Palm oil is a very poor substitute for the palmitic acid in breastmilk.

This would be a very poor substitute for a land tax, as your online questions show.

As outlined in a new analysis of the manual, it is a poor substitute for a fully codified constitution

Watchdogs said the constitutional amendment would be a poor substitute for a full - fledged public - financing mechanism.

I know that proportional representation fans think the AV is a poor substitute for the real thing, but it might be that Clegg knew that the Tories simply would not stomach full PR, and AV could be seen as a step in the right direction.

It remains unclear, however, how much such passenger - funded partnerships do to alleviate climate change and they are a poor substitute for a carbon - neutral alternative jet fuel.

Uhls said that emoticons are a poor substitute for face - to - face communication: «We are social creatures.

«Pills can be a poor substitute for taking the time to truly understand what is going on with behavior,» Dr. Wiles says.

«ROPAs are a poor substitute for properly peer - reviewed grant applications,» says Clarke.

The study shows that army ants are not a poor substitute for preferred foods, but a staple part of chimpanzee diets.

Not only are they likely to show up mismatched foundation and a carefully ironed shirt, fluorescent lights are a poor substitute for sunlight.

Manipulation is a poor substitute for sincerity.

While ginger is a poor substitute for the earthiness of galangal, I've made it with ginger before and it was still a very tasty soup.

These machines try to mimic the original exercise, but they are a poor substitute for the real thing.

This is a very poor substitute for define a brow.

Like the movie's mysterious Jigsaw doppelgänger, Saw IV is itself a poor substitute for the original.

But the Wii U is a poor substitute for a tablet and the games that both the gaming audience and the wider public at large has come to expect since the launch of the iPad in 2010.

While none of the «Insidious» films have cost very much, this is the first one that can be said to look cheap, with the flatly lit, washed - out digital cinematography of Brian Pearson a poor substitute for the silky elegance John R. Leonetti brought to the previous films in the series.

Rather than seeing technology as either a threat to or poor substitute for teachers, we need to determine how best to use technology to enhance teachers» capabilities.

Considered by many to be a poor substitute for the real thing before they arrive — this has also been compounded by local authorities choosing the most basic models anticipating a trouble free building for the rest of its life.

Increased expenditure, Ryan argues, is a poor substitute for integration: It «take [s] as given — either as a matter of strategy or necessity — that poor and minority districts will remain separate from white and wealthier ones....

That sounds like a poor substitute for real art and music.

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Your excuse or rationale will always be a poor substitute for their own explanation.