6 sentences with 'replacing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word replacing and other words derived from it.
• « Plato claimed that politics and ethics were also like this, with the Form of Justice replacing "real" laws and courts, but existing in the intellectual realm as something for philosophers to contemplate. »
• « Also, only states had the resources to reform entire institutions, replacing seminaries, universities, libraries, etc. with new material in the case of Protestant states. This required an even closer relationship between church and state. »
• « In 1806, following his victories over the Austrians and Prussians, Napoleon formally dissolved the (almost exactly 1,000-year-old) Holy Roman Empire, replacing much of its territory with a newly invented puppet state he called the Confederation of the Rhine. »
• « In a familiar pattern from the First World War, women played a huge role on the home front during the Second World War. Millions of women worked in war production in all Allied countries, with women almost completely replacing men in Soviet agriculture by the end of the war. »
• « The exceptions were countries like Iran that sought to nationalise national industries: the US sponsored a coup to overthrow Prime Minister Mohammed Mosadeq in 1953 for trying to assert Iranian ownership of its own oil fields, replacing him with a corrupt king, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was beholden to US interests. »