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Liberal and conservative pundits disagree about affirmative action and welfare reform, but concur that a series of town meetings, an advisory panel, and an eloquent report are sorry substitutes for decisive action.
But all were poor substitutes for true love and didn't vanquish his feelings of inadequacy and guilt.
The company identified two potential drop-in substitutes for methylene chloride.
To sustain his claim that my essay is effectively an "apologia," Shatz substitutes appeals to popular prejudice for scholarship.
Like his father, Bush substitutes virtue for substance.