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    1. It has nothing to do with intelligence - on the contrary, it is much more manifest in persons of mean or low intelligence, and it is thanks to cunning that the mediocre often supplant the excellent


    2. They seem to have intended to support the spirited undertakings, for as such they considered them, which were at that time carrying on in different parts of the country ; and, at the same time, by drawing the whole banking business to themselves, to supplant all the other Scotch banks, particularly those established at Edinburgh, whose backwardness in discounting bills of exchange had given some offence


    3. In the long-run, therefore, the operations of this bank increased the real distress of the country, which it meant to relieve ; and effectually relieved, from a very great distress, those rivals whom it meant to supplant


    4. Slowly she allowed the adoration of those around her to supplant the need of an answer, and she did not ask again


    5. The figures of penetration of the subtle and masked goals of the Socialism movement are widely disseminated, but through it all stands out the simple concept illustrated by the distinct statement of Ludwig von Mises regarding the conflict of systems: “The real problem is whether or not socialism should supplant the market economy


    6. We would not belittle the place of the person of Jesus in a religion which might bear his name, but we would not permit such consideration to eclipse his inspired life or to supplant his saving message: the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man


    7. Do professed Christians fear the exposure of a self-sufficient and unconsecrated fellowship of social respectability and selfish economic maladjustment? Does institutional Christianity fear the possible jeopardy, or even the overthrow, of traditional ecclesiastical authority if the Jesus of Galilee is reinstated in the minds and souls of mortal men as the ideal of personal religious living? Indeed, the social readjustments, the economic transformations, the moral rejuvenations, and the religious revisions of Christian civilization would be drastic and revolutionary if the living religion of Jesus should suddenly supplant the theologic religion about Jesus


    8. She next reminded me that the key to comprehending any her lessons on behavior, in the swiftest time, was to supplant reason with logic


    9. By overthrowing one dictatorship, there were those who would supplant it with another –


    10. was to supplant the seeds of justified rejection

    11. designed to spread the profits of superlative endeavor to supplant the corroding


    12. It is a safe bet that any formal effort to supplant the First Amendment in this way would meet with great resistance


    13. Shariah would supplant them with a repressive, transnational, theocratic government abroad and at home


    14. Johann wrote and told me I was supposed to come to the DuMond House near Nancy in order to supplant her real memories with ones of the Great Goddess's making


    15. lands of the Gaelic Irish nobility in the most resistant Gaelic region and to supplant In Ireland, English and Scottish


    16. It took hominids at least 4 million years to develop tool-use to the level of sophistication that could supplant genetic adaptation with learning


    17. The foolish dream of humans living somewhere else in space is the arrogance of tools trying to not only destroy life, but completely supplant it: so humans will no longer need the earth or anything else except their own tools in order to survive


    18. What does that tell us about their intelligence and ours? That they-we were more obsessed with making tools than another tribe of walking apes? That they spent more time finding the best possible flint? Why did a more practical race of hominids go extinct, and a less practical one manage not only to survive and supplant them; but flourish and cover the entire earth with 6 billion of its offspring? Because we were better tool-makers and better tool-users… or better killers? Or both?


    19. As a proud list of territorial acquisitions, in their territorial greed and their envious machinations to supplant and overtake the British empire as the largest most powerful empire ever to be created by civilized men


    20. No matter how the lawmaker may supplant it with a better law

    21. Incubated Memory Directives was a method used to supplant in a person's unconscious


    22. After some generality of discourse concerning the inventions, whereon Bailie Pirlet, who was naturally a gabby prick-me-dainty body, enlarged at great length, with all his well dockit words, as if they were on chandler’s pins, pointing out here the utility of the legs to persons maimed in the wars of their country, and showing forth there in what manner the punch-bowls were specimens of a new art that might in time supplant both China and Staffordshire ware, and deducing therefrom the benefits that would come out of it to the country at large, and especially to the landed interest, in so much as the increased demand which it would cause for leather, would raise


    23. All she could do was to suppress it and, in particularly serious cases, supplant it with a different, less traumatic memory


    24. According to the Spanish portion, however, Kohdy had started to suspect that Chihiro and his closest supporters had retained Hamilcar—although Kohdy didn’t know what Hamilcar truly was; he refers to it throughout as ‘the Dawn Star’—out of his own ambition to replace and supplant Langhorne completely


    25. So! With the left hand thou wouldst use me for a little while as a shield against Mordor, and with the right bring up this Ranger of the North to supplant me


    26. Some of its young would probably inherit the same habits or structure, and by the repetition of this process, a new variety might be formed which would either supplant or coexist with the parent-form of wolf


    27. As in each fully stocked country natural selection necessarily acts by the selected form having some advantage in the struggle for life over other forms, there will be a constant tendency in the improved descendants of any one species to supplant and exterminate in each stage of descent their predecessors and their original progenitor


    28. Within the same large group, the later and more highly perfected sub-groups, from branching out and seizing on many new places in the polity of nature, will constantly tend to supplant and destroy the earlier and less improved sub-groups


    29. With fishes, members of the shark family would not tend to supplant the lancelet; for the lancelet, as I hear from Fritz Muller, has as sole companion and competitor on the barren sandy shore of South Brazil, an anomalous annelid


    30. Lastly, and this I am inclined to think is the most important element, a dominant species, which has already beaten many competitors in its own home, will tend to spread and supplant many others

    31. de Candolle has shown that those species which spread widely tend generally to spread VERY widely, consequently they will tend to supplant and exterminate several species in several areas, and thus check the inordinate increase of specific forms throughout the world


    32. Hence, the more common forms, in the race for life, will tend to beat and supplant the less common forms, for these will be more slowly modified and improved


    33. The main cause, however, of innumerable intermediate links not now occurring everywhere throughout nature depends, on the very process of natural selection, through which new varieties continually take the places of and supplant their parent-forms


    34. But such a case would imply that one form had remained for a very long period unaltered, whilst its descendants had undergone a vast amount of change; and the principle of competition between organism and organism, between child and parent, will render this a very rare event; for in all cases the new and improved forms of life tend to supplant the old and unimproved forms


    35. With animals and plants that propagate rapidly and do not wander much, there is reason to suspect, as we have formerly seen, that their varieties are generally at first local; and that such local varieties do not spread widely and supplant their parent-form until they have been modified and perfected in some considerable degree


    36. Very many of the marine inhabitants of the archipelago now range thousands of miles beyond its confines; and analogy plainly leads to the belief that it would be chiefly these far-ranging species, though only some of them, which would oftenest produce new varieties; and the varieties would at first be local or confined to one place, but if possessed of any decided advantage, or when further modified and improved, they would slowly spread and supplant their parent-forms


    37. For though the offspring of one species might be adapted (and no doubt this has occurred in innumerable instances) to fill the place of another species in the economy of nature, and thus supplant it; yet the two forms—the old and the new—would not be identically the same; for both would almost certainly inherit different characters from their distinct progenitors; and organisms already differing would vary in a different manner


    38. Thus, as I believe, a number of new species descended from one species, that is a new genus, comes to supplant an old genus, belonging to the same family


    39. Undoubtedly, if one species has any advantage over another, it will in a very brief time wholly or in part supplant it; but if both are equally well fitted for their own places, both will probably hold their separate places for almost any length of time


    40. I attempted also to show that there is a steady tendency in the forms which are increasing in number and diverging in character, to supplant and exterminate the preceding, less divergent and less improved forms

    41. The larger and more dominant groups within each class thus tend to go on increasing in size, and they consequently supplant many smaller and feebler groups


    42. New and improved varieties will inevitably supplant and exterminate the older, less improved and intermediate varieties; and thus species are rendered to a large extent defined and distinct objects


    43. According to him, I had been sent by Pugatchéf as a spy to Orenburg; I went out each day as far as the line of sharpshooters to transmit written news of all that was passing within the town; finally, I had definitely come over to the usurper's side, going with him from fort to fort, and trying, by all the means in my power, to do evil to my companions in treason, to supplant them in their posts, and profit more by the favours of the arch-rebel


    44. Measures should be taken to supplant the notion that by moderate annual contributions to ordinary schools for a few years the great task can be accomplished of lifting up a race that had been held in bondage for centuries, that started in its career of freedom in absolute destitution and that pursues its course here under many disabilities; and preparing liberators, missionaries, guides and saviours for the Dark Continent


    1. An unexpected twinge of sorrow supplanted his bitter anger, at least momentarily


    2. The earliest sense, that it was something like a predator, was soon supplanted in Man’s long search for a likeness to attach to this surreality


    3. supplanted in a musty room with floral upholstery and matching bed coverings


    4. 10 And Esau said, Is he not rightly called Jacob? for he has supplanted me twice, he took away my birthright and now he has taken away my blessing; and Esau wept greatly; and when Isaac heard the voice of his son, Esau weeping, Isaac said to Esau, What can I do, my son, your brother came with subtlety and took away your blessing, and Esau hated his brother Jacob on account of the blessing that his father had given him, and his anger was greatly roused against him


    5. 11 And not only to Laban has Jacob done so but also to me has he done so and has twice supplanted me, and shall I be silente


    6. Absurdity and futility have supplanted them: the absurdity and futility of life, of sentience, of reality


    7. 36 And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me


    8. 10 And Esau said Is he not rightly called Jacob? for he has supplanted me twice he took away my birthright and now he has taken away my blessing; and Esau wept greatly; and when Isaac heard the voice of his son Esau weeping Isaac said to Esau What can I do my son your brother came with subtlety and took away your blessing and Esau hated his brother Jacob on account of the blessing that his father had given him and his anger was greatly roused against him


    9. 11 And not only to Laban has Jacob done so but also to me has he done so and has twice supplanted me and shall I be silente


    10. My initial joy was supplanted by a bad mood and the same should have happened to my sister who returned to be planted in the stool

    11. The shrubs, emaciated and evaporated by the fury of the roaring fire, were supplanted by an enormous black, ashen and sterile spot that was distilling the gray steams of destruction


    12. the original colonists of the early settlement period who were all but overrun and supplanted


    13. And this evolving and enlarging concept of God virtually supplanted all previous ideas of Deity in our fathers' religion


    14. The evil of the church was not its existence, but rather that it almost completely supplanted the Jesus concept of the kingdom


    15. In a short time the teaching of this story about Jesus nearly supplanted the preaching of Jesus' gospel of the kingdom


    16. It may well utilize such social organizations, but it must not be supplanted by them


    17. Negative energy and information is not supplanted in these areas and you do not need to worry about harm


    18. ” José Arcadio Segundo, who took a long time to discover that he had been supplanted, was unable to understand his brother’s passion


    19. Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times


    20. The nation was about to be supplanted and brought into captivity

    21. mother-child love, humans’ original most essential emotion, is therefore supplanted and superseded by sexual/romantic, man-woman love


    22. “Since it will have already been supplanted by philanthropic institutions of social equality


    23. They were the ones we supplanted; when we began stealing their marrow from them


    24. Instead of the unquestioned reverence of nobility and the upper class as being more holy… The old Status of Nobility was supplanted by an unquestioned respect for the riches, money, wealth, and power that could obtain this status


    25. Today, the Protestant Work Ethic is being undermined and supplanted by an ethic of Pure Greed


    26. Hope has supplanted actual meaning


    27. Persian Tyrants were more powerful and more tyrannical than the Kings they supplanted


    28. The Greeks themselves were originally Maritime pirates; who invaded Mediterranean shores and supplanted the older less warlike tribes who lived there


    29. The last humans that colonized, supplanted, replaced, and destroyed the last existing Neanderthals in Europe


    30. of an immortal undying soul has supplanted the second coming of Christ by making the

    31. It was not long, therefore, before the naturalistic basis of hope supplanted the properly Christian


    32. Instead of talking of Edward, they came gradually to talk only of Robert,--a subject on which he had always more to say than on any other, and in which she soon betrayed an interest even equal to his own; and in short, it became speedily evident to both, that he had entirely supplanted his brother


    33. mode of reasoning; he gazed, doubtfully, wistfully, on Danglars, and then caution supplanted With the rapid instinct of selfishness, Caderousse readily perceived the solidity of this


    34. Rage supplanted religious fervor


    35. Pride and exultation were supplanted by humility, and the fiercest of human passions was already succeeded by the most profound and unequivocal demonstrations of grief


    36. But it wasn’t long before the opinion poll supplanted Neill’s method for assessing the beliefs of the crowd


    37. The ticker tape was a paper-based, telegraphic reporting method for transactions (later was supplanted by the so-called Trans Lux, an electronic version of the paper tape that used to be displayed in all brokerage offices)


    38. “Market history shows that a formation can be discarded (1) when it is supplanted by another pattern which precedes or follows it, (2) when it is short or imperfectly formed, or (3) when it occurs at a very low level, historically, in the average


    39. Several forces can widen a company’s moat: a strong brand identity (think of Harley Davidson, whose buyers tattoo the company’s logo onto their bodies); a monopoly or near-monopoly on the market; economies of scale, or the ability to supply huge amounts of goods or services cheaply (consider Gillette, which churns out razor blades by the billion); a unique intangible asset (think of Coca-Cola, whose secret formula for flavored syrup has no real physical value but maintains a priceless hold on consumers); a resistance to substitution (most businesses have no alternative to electricity, so utility companies are unlikely to be supplanted any time soon)


    40. † This traditional role of bankers has for the most part been supplanted by accountants, lawyers, or financial planners

    41. Type 3 UTP cabling largely supplanted Type 1 in the Token Ring world, mainly because it was much easier to install


    42. “Do you know,” he said, raising his eyes, “that the powerful multinational corporations now have an output larger than the GNP of ninety percent of the countries around the globe? They have supplanted governments as the system of social responsibility in our world


    43. Can Bitcoin Be Supplanted by Another Cryptocurrency?


    44. They supplanted you with your bastard half brother and chased you into exile with no more than Shiraa and the shirt on your back


    45. Instead of talking of Edward, they came gradually to talk only of Robert,—a subject on which he had always more to say than on any other, and in which she soon betrayed an interest even equal to his own; and in short, it became speedily evident to both, that he had entirely supplanted his brother


    46. All are supplanted sooner or later


    47. In cases of this kind, if the variation were of a beneficial nature, the original form would soon be supplanted by the modified form, through the survival of the fittest


    48. But we shall see in the sixth chapter that intermediate varieties, inhabiting intermediate districts, will in the long run generally be supplanted by one of the adjoining varieties


    49. But it may be objected that if all organic beings thus tend to rise in the scale, how is it that throughout the world a multitude of the lowest forms still exist; and how is it that in each great class some forms are far more highly developed than others? Why have not the more highly developed forms every where supplanted and exterminated the lower? Lamarck, who believed in an innate and inevitable tendency towards perfection in all organic beings, seems to have felt this difficulty so strongly that he was led to suppose that new and simple forms are continually being produced by spontaneous generation


    50. By my theory these allied species are descended from a common parent; and during the process of modification, each has become adapted to the conditions of life of its own region, and has supplanted and exterminated its original parent-form and all the transitional varieties between its past and present states

















    1. complicated machinery, supplanting the trained artisan


    2. Therefore, it causes more problems and endless sacrifices for population with intention of supplanting so many other generated damages for the collateral result of its palliative measure


    3. Supplanting his thoughts


    4. 5 "But let me warn you against the folly of undertaking to surmount temptation by the effort of supplanting one desire by another and supposedly superior desire through the mere force of the human will


    5. But arrogance was supplanting their former simplicity


    6. I don’t expect anything good from Stalin, whose paranoia is supplanting more and more his common sense


    7. He currently plots to draft the indomitable Ashuras into his service to enact a misguided scheme of supplanting the status quo with a hedonist utopia


    8. " It is on this score, that of supplanting


    9. what has gone before without supplanting it


    10. consul for life, supplanting his previous ten-year term

    11. Captain Bligh went even farther than supplanting meat with breadfruit


    12. The corrupt tool ethic of tool productivity supplanting human concerns has become the ethical norm for both producers and consumers


    13. Read about how almost every successor to the throne hated the one they were supplanting so badly… that they spent fortunes eradicating their names and faces off all of the temples and monuments erected in their honor


    14. “She was willing to concede that the supplanting was liable to abuse, but she was adamant that the suppression itself was entirely moral if the clinician thought it would be the most effective way to deal with the trauma and if the patient agreed after a thorough explanation of the procedure


    15. “What I’m thinking about right now, though, was that she pointed out that one reason for supplanting suppressed memories with manufactured ones was to prevent the patient from probing at a ‘blank spot’ in her recollections


    16. Such supplanting was to be


    17. In his head, the book kept growing and growing in length and complexity, almost as if it had taken on the burden of supplanting real life, rather than evoking it


    18. Consequently, in the course of many thousand generations, the most distinct varieties of any one species of grass would have the best chance of succeeding and of increasing in numbers, and thus of supplanting the less distinct varieties; and varieties, when rendered very distinct from each other, take the rank of species


    19. We have seen that species at any one period are not indefinitely variable, and are not linked together by a multitude of intermediate gradations, partly because the process of natural selection is always very slow, and at any one time acts only on a few forms; and partly because the very process of natural selection implies the continual supplanting and extinction of preceding and intermediate gradations


    20. When two varieties are formed in two districts of a continuous area, an intermediate variety will often be formed, fitted for an intermediate zone; but from reasons assigned, the intermediate variety will usually exist in lesser numbers than the two forms which it connects; consequently the two latter, during the course of further modification, from existing in greater numbers, will have a great advantage over the less numerous intermediate variety, and will thus generally succeed in supplanting and exterminating it

    1. On this path, over time, the love of God supplants our love for things of this world and our obsession with our false selves


    2. It is the same with our domestic productions: when a new and slightly improved variety has been raised, it at first supplants the less improved varieties in the same neighbourhood; when much improved it is transported far and near, like our short-horn cattle, and takes the place of other breeds in other countries


    3. In good time, nevertheless, as the ardour of youth declines; as years and dumps increase; as reflection lends her solemn pauses; in short, as a general lassitude overtakes the sated Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, forswears, disbands the harem, and grown to an exemplary, sulky old soul, goes about all alone among the meridians and parallels saying his prayers, and warning each young Leviathan from his amorous errors


    4. The gentleman does nothing, while the peasant works and supplants the idle man


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