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idol of today pushed the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. . .

Canada supplanted Japan as the top performer among the Group of Seven leading economic powers, although outright winner was again Finland.

China has supplanted the U. S. as the world's biggest energy consumer, making access to its market vital for global companies.

Before a cruel and ruthless Empire supplanted it, the Old Republic was the democratic union that governed a galaxy for thousands of years.

and to see myself supplanted in your friendship by strangers does cut me to the quick, I own.

Politicians, commentators, and the public believe China has already supplanted the United States to achieve primacy in world politics.

When he was born, slavery had been supplanted by racial segregation, enshrined in law in the South and in practice in the North.

A real recovery depends on government demand being supplanted by sustainable sources of private spending.

But today, for the first time in human history, the power and allure of the images have supplanted that of real naked women.

Seemingly overnight, IBM was supplanted by Microsoft and its Windows operating system as the PC revolution took hold.

In the eastern Terai area, next to India, the Maoists had been supplanted by local nationalist groups, both armed and democratic.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs .

He says that Quebec's main nationalist parties tend to last a generation before being supplanted by another with a different vision.

One of the daughters of Gaea and Uranus who sought to rule heaven and were overthrown and supplanted by Zeus.

Such policies have been wound down and supplanted by renewed state intervention.

In 1989 the Accord supplanted Taurus as the best-selling car in the United States, a first for Japan's auto industry.

S. , where factory jobs have over the years been supplanted by the growth of the service sector andknowledge-based companies.

He says eventually the relief rally of the past two months will be supplanted by a change in the sectors that will have lasting returns.

It even supplanted CCTV's Lunar New Year's Eve Gala-a heavily patriotic extravaganza-as the year's most-watched show in the city.

the crescent supplanted the cross on the summit of the dome, and the altar and the pulpit were replaced by the customary Muslim furnishings.

You Ji thinks that the Korean peninsula may have supplanted Taiwan as the potential war most worrying China.

Within a short time the trading company had supplanted the individual promoter of colonization.

Eventually, the early world wide web supplanted the bulletin boards, but even today the humble BBS isn't completely gone.

For women it seems that education is being supplanted by health, which could be a market advantage.

As a result of the war tsarist Russia was defeated and supplanted by Japanese imperialism in the dominant role in China's Northeast.

Technology, however sophisticated, may be supplanted by better methods with the passing of time.

Another insect-borne bacterium wins for second smallest genome and shows signs of being supplanted by a competing organism.

Prime Minister was supplanted by his rival.

This was supplanted in the early 20th century by the liquid-filled magnetic compass.

The UN says the highly addictive stimulants have supplanted heroin, opium and marijuana, and pose a serious challenge to law enforcement.

"Sovereign risk has supplanted regulatory risk as the primary focus of bank bondholders, " says Jonathan Glionna at Barclays Capital.

Previous civilian administrations have been corrupt and inept, but so has the army rule that has routinely supplanted them.

More recently, the notion of a united Third World has been supplanted by the rise of China and India.

Long out of print, the Collection has finally been supplanted.

Fear of being supplanted was also behind Microsoft's decision in the late 1990s to bundle its web browser, Internet Explorer, into Windows.

Mr Graddol says the idea of English being supplanted as the world language is not fanciful.

The President was supplanted by a political rival.

Because the black market, however, finally supplanted the legal price-ceiling market, it must not be supposed that no harm was done.

As the royal courts supplanted the local courts so the common law replaced local customs.

One. If canal boats are supplanted by ' railroads , ' serious unemployment will result.

Top of the pile is Japan, which recently supplanted Italy as the world's oldest big country.

True philosophy was supplanted by dogmatic opinions. The pundits took delight in vain polemics .

Overview In many of today's manufacturing enterprises, the CMM has supplanted traditional hard gaging systems.

Here are four Asian options that could easily have supplanted Zuckerberg this year.

We didn't run out of kerosene, either: electricity supplanted it because it was a superior way to light our planet.

On the hardware side, its boxy design became the model for PC compatibles, and the ISA bus supplanted the old S-100 bus as standard.

He was instructed in the use of tools and later in the use of machines that in industry have supplanted these tools.

Marriage with manus was more and more supplanted by free marriage.

These concepts are useful until they become obsolete, supplanted by newer and more effective ideas.

In any case, Henrietta never really supplanted Caroline.

In 2009, Chinamayhave supplanted Japan as the world's second-largest economy and edged past Germany as the world's leading exporter.

Bamboo became the favorite for several decades, but tungsten supplanted it by 1910.

Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.

A civilian administration, headed by William Howard Taft as civil governor, supplanted military rule on July 4, 1901.

Landed wealth, which dominated the 18th century, was being supplanted by monied wealth, whichcame to dominate the 19th.

The G20, which includes these two nations, supplanted the G8 as the world's most influential talking shop.

Oil has supplanted coffee as our main export.

of Cook Strait in extreme southern North Island. It was founded in1840 and supplanted Auckland as capital in1865. Population, 133, 200.

She has been supplanted by another in his affections.

The local barber has been supplanted in the self-indulgent world of early 21st-century life by sleekly appointed temples to wellbeing.

The bathysphere, limited to depths of about 900 meters (3, 000 feet), has been supplanted by the safer and more navigable bathyscaph.

Made in China is to be supplanted by Created in China.

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