Sentences with phrase «serve as placeholders»

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

Only about a quarter of those sites contained any content at all, which leads the agency to believe they are serving as placeholders for future crowdfunding portals, perhaps readying to launch once the SEC implements its investor guidelines.

1) Worth not only pointing out, but also emphasizing: Part of the reason why we have Tucker has been to serve as a placeholder for Acuna, with the hopes that he might prove to be worth keeping on the 25 - man even after Acuna comes up.

He is a veteran quarterback who will likely serve as a placeholder / stopgap option for the Broncos until whoever they draft in the first - round of the 2018 NFL Draft is ready.

Assembly Democrats have the votes to appoint a replacement for Schneiderman, who could either serve as a placeholder or run outright in November.

He ran for the US Senate in 2006, served as a placeholder candidate on some ballots in 2008 for presidential candidate Ralph Nader, and received 41 percent of the vote in a Syracuse Common Council race (2009).

Sources said Bellando would have served as a placeholder and was expected to decline the nomination, allowing the party to select a new candidate later this week.

Sources said Rick Bellando would have served as a placeholder for a Mangano re-election run on the Independence Party's line.

The «X» serves as a placeholder for the degree of dust - resistance regarding IP ratings.

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«The Legislature should appoint a placeholder to serve as the acting Attorney General — someone who will not stand for election — allowing the voters to select from a competitive field of candidates as part of the normal electoral process in the Fall.

Common Cause / NY Executive Director Susan Lerner says the Legislature should appoint a placeholder to serve as the acting attorney general — someone who will not stand for election — allowing the voters to select from a competitive field of candidates in the fall.

Pocaro writes that «is a stinging riposte to the kind of contemporary abstract painting that merely serves as «a placeholder for value» and «needs to get out of the way.»

You can also set up your OneDrive as a network drive, which serves the same purpose as placeholders; however, it's slow and doesn't allow you to use large files.

Therefore, when referring to attachment figures as «prepared» safety stimuli, the idea is not that a specific person is a prepared stimulus but rather that the prepared stimulus is a schema or placeholder in the attachment behavioral system that then becomes occupied by a specific attachment figure who serves as a secure base or source of safety (2).