America had become an English-speaking colony, settled by emigrants from the Old Country who had largely supplanted its aboriginal population. |
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Jet engines have supplanted piston engines in commercial aircraft due to more power, greater speed, and better all-around performance. |
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But the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine soon supplanted the steam engine in automotive technology. |
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I read recently in this newspaper that kissing has now supplanted the handshake as the greeting of choice among male friends. |
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The local silver thatch palm, traditionally used for roofing, was supplanted by corrugated tin. |
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The city of real buildings is being supplanted by a city of stalls and kiosks, a city made entirely of accretions. |
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It was abandoned and scrapped in 1918, after mining decreased and electric motors supplanted steam boilers at the mill. |
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The five-course guitar supplanted the aristocratic vihuela in the 17th century and came to be regarded as the typical Spanish instrument. |
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A multipolar racial pattern has largely supplanted the old racial system, which was often viewed as a bipolar white-black hierarchy. |
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He spoke musingly, his anger supplanted for the moment by unfeigned pleasure. |
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It was these anatomically modern humans which joined or supplanted the Neanderthals in Europe some 40,000 years ago. |
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But this, in turn, is supplanted by the increasingly theoretical, increasingly subdivided abstraction for which she later became known in Paris. |
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As with military strategy, rightness or wrongness is supplanted by possibility. |
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These Romance languages supplanted earlier tribal ones which, except for Basque, have not survived. |
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Alternative Armageddons supplanted the mushroom cloud and the nuclear winter. |
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The traditional cheese and Marmite rusks have been well and truly supplanted. |
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As the twentieth century wore on, railroads and mail-order catalogs supplanted the country stores. |
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Early Umayyad caliphs and some of the Abbasids who supplanted them employed the title khalifat Allah. |
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The discovery that directly supplanted gunpowder for use in firearms was guncotton, a forerunner of smokeless powder. |
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It took over a hundred years before Newton's ideas thoroughly supplanted the theory of Cartesian vortices. |
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By the end of the year, she had finally supplanted Liz Hurley as the British newspapers' screen goddess of choice. |
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Importantly, it is our view that consumer finance has supplanted corporate finance as the weakest link in the financial daisy chain. |
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However, curanderos have been mostly supplanted by U.S. doctors, because they cannot get licenses to practice medicine here. |
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Richly figured rosewood with its dark striations became the wood of choice, although mahogany and fruitwoods were not entirely supplanted. |
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In all but the role of small insectivore, omnivore, and rodent-like herbivore, the therapsids were eventually supplanted by the archosaurs. |
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Although widely prolific in the West Indies, they have not flourished in this country, and cowpeas have more or less supplanted them. |
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All too quickly, of course, they are supplanted by giants, wizards, magical buses, and flying brooms. |
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His initial Maoist enthusiasm was slowly supplanted by disillusionment. |
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Poker fans will recognize that this brand of the game has recently been supplanted by Texas Hold 'Em because the percentages in five card stud are easier to navigate. |
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For a few short weeks each autumn, in playgrounds across the land, the tinny buzz of the Nokia and the iPod is supplanted by the sound of youngsters thwacking their nuts. |
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But there was so much of myself that was kind of supplanted into that character. |
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After World War II, college football began to be supplanted in the imagination of New Yorkers by the professional game. |
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Defense hawks have been supplanted by debt hawks, and this policy shift is making itself heard. |
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The Toltecs of Tula, just north of Mexico City, revered him until the early part of the last millennium, when a new god, Tezcatlipoca, supplanted him. |
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The enormous skyscrapers and attendant monorails were supplanted by palaces and town houses circumscribed by high walls, towering railings and tall trees. |
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Film sings have supplanted folk music in the lives of common people. |
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Meanwhile, gas illumination and, later, electrical lighting supplanted natural light, while steam slowly became the dominant source of stationary and motive power. |
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The simple rectangular front legs of the earlier type, originally a continuation of the arm support, have been supplanted here by cabriole legs adorned with carved masks. |
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Public ceremonial would be supplanted by royal ceremoniousness. |
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These creatures succeeded the pelycosaurian synapsids as the rulers of the land, until they in turn were supplanted by the archosaurs during the early Triassic. |
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Airline travel has now supplanted travel in ocean liners as the principal means of intercontinental travel, and the same three class structure has asserted itself. |
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For instance, many scholars have explored how modern western science has overwhelmed and supplanted both ethnoscience and traditional or indigenous systems of knowledge. |
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These were supplanted by blocks into which metal was inlaid. |
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It is unclear if William would have been supplanted in the ducal succession if Robert had had a legitimate son. |
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In many places, Acadian has been supplanted by English and by Standard French. |
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A love story set in London chugs along from before WW II to the time when jazz supplanted the big band sound. |
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In the 1850s the concert overture began to be supplanted by the symphonic poem. |
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The drop kick was supplanted by the place kick, which cannot be attempted out of a formation generally used as a running or passing set. |
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Due to English and Scottish succession laws, Prince James immediately supplanted his older half sisters as heir to the throne. |
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O'Shaughnessy's instrument was used all over India until early 1857, when it was supplanted by the Morse instrument. |
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In the 18th century, with the rising prominence of France in Europe, French supplanted Latin as an important source of words. |
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The popular appellation eclipsed and eventually supplanted the official Portuguese name. |
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This Royal badge was supplanted by a new official Royal badge in 2008, which eliminated the red dragon altogether. |
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Sometimes the elders are supplanted, and sometimes the rebels lose and are either cast out of power entirely or incorporated into the pantheon. |
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In addition, Greenlandic ivory may have been supplanted in European markets by cheaper ivory from Africa. |
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When an international rock culture developed, it supplanted cinema as the major sources of fashion influence. |
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Linen was the traditional fiber of sails until it was supplanted by cotton during the 19th century. |
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Gaulish was supplanted by Vulgar Latin and various Germanic languages from around the 5th century AD onwards. |
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It was later supplanted by the immensely popular The History of England by David Hume. |
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The institutions at lower levels were overseen and at times supplanted by primary party organizations. |
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From around 1720, the new Famille Rose palette was adopted and quickly supplanted the earlier Famille Verte porcelains of the Kangxi period. |
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Germanic strong verbs, mostly deriving directly from PIE, are slowly being supplanted by or transformed into weak verbs. |
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The term objective case is generally preferred by modern English grammarians, where it supplanted Old English's dative and accusative. |
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These Old English Latin alphabets supplanted the earlier runes, whose use was fully banned under King Canute in the early 11th century. |
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Also there was a great increase in power as steam powered electricity generation and internal combustion supplanted limited wind and water power. |
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Poststructuralism in its deconstructive phase was soon supplanted by the New Historicism. |
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A culture of megalithis temple builders then either supplanted or arose from this early period. |
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Mendel's laws of inheritance eventually supplanted most of Darwin's pangenesis theory. |
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In recent decades, reciprocating Diesel engines, and gas turbines, have almost entirely supplanted steam propulsion for marine applications. |
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There can be no denying that the geostrategic landscape of today is significantly different from the Cold War bipolarity it supplanted. |
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The wider introduction of weapons and tactics supplanted the feudal armies where heavy cavalry had dominated, and artillery became important. |
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Some, such as Japanese knotweed and Norway and sycamore maple, became invasive and supplanted native for-eat-floor plants. |
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Niagara Falls is also a product of the glaciation, as is the course of the Ohio River, which largely supplanted the prior Teays River. |
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An exception might be made for the Northern Isles, however, where Pictish was more likely supplanted by Norse rather than by Gaelic. |
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In the following centuries most Gaels were gradually anglicized and Gaelic language mostly supplanted by English. |
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The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. |
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The freeware version will be supplanted by an overhauled for-pay release. |
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It was a powerful cement derived from pozzolana, and soon supplanted marble as the chief Roman building material and allowed many daring architectural forms. |
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Recent evidence,shows that bloomeries were used in China, migrating in from the west as early as 800 BC, before being supplanted by the locally developed blast furnace. |
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Steel also supplanted wrought iron when it became readily available in the latter half of the 19th century, providing great savings when compared with iron in cost and weight. |
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For that reason, their use in serious infections has been in large part supplanted by quinolones in adults and third-generation cephalosporins in children. |
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They appear to have been later supplanted by the Mohawk nation. |
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Wartenberg avoided eponyms and supplanted them with physiologic terms. |
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It is descended from the Liberal Party, a major ruling party of 19th century Britain through to the First World War, when it was supplanted by the Labour Party. |
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It was the standard romanization until the Yale system supplanted it. |
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In time, the heavy emphasis on money was supplanted by industrial policy, accompanied by a shift in focus from the capacity to carry on wars to promoting general prosperity. |
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Eventually mail was supplanted by plate for the most part, as it provided greater protection against windlass crossbows, bludgeoning weapons, and lance charges. |
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The earlier 14C date from a bone artifact at the Old Crow Flats site has been supplanted by an Accelerator Mass Spectrometry 14C date that indicates a Holocene age. |
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Latin was used as the language of international communication, scholarship, and science until well into the 18th century, when it began to be supplanted by vernaculars. |
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Computed tomography has supplanted simple chest roentgenograms, planigrams, fluoroscopy, and radionuclide bone scanning for routine clinical staging purposes. |
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Inevitably, a continuing drive for greater efficiency in the publishing world doomed the hot lead machine, supplanted by computerized phototypesetting gear. |
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In northern Europe, stained glass was an important and prestigious form of painting until the 15th century, when it became supplanted by panel painting. |
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Columbus was arrested in 1500 and supplanted from his posts. |
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The issue has long preoccupied paleobotanists, with competing theories seeking to explain how angiosperms supplanted ferns and gymnosperms in many regions of the globe. |
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Beginning in the 1970s, deficits in attention span and distractibility have supplanted motor overactivity, and they have become the defining feature of the disorder. |
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It was eventually supplanted by the Gregorian chant in the 11th century. |
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