The idea that they, or the Irish Reform Association in general, and I myself in particular, were actuated by a desire to shelve Home Rule by substituting a measure of administrative reform, is pre-eminently absurd.
In June the Government were beaten by a small majority on an amendment of Lord Dunkellin substitutingrating for rental; a few days later Lord Russell resigned and Lord Derby for the third time became Prime Minister.
Boy life on the plantation gave him his material in the folklore of the negro, and a chance bit of substituting gave him his very casual start as the creator of "Uncle Remus.
He dismissed moving accidents and dire catastrophes from the field of the new novel, substituting for fire and flood the slow smolder of individual resentment and a burst of feminine tears.
During the last week of the Legislature Senator Roberts called out of the committee the original Winter Resolution of Rejection and in Committee of the Whole it was amended by striking out the word "reject" and substituting the word "ratify.
Its tendency is to modify the early dogmatism by substituting the spirit for the letter, and practical religion for precise definitions of truth.
If so, this might be very well effected, without doing away the duty, and substituting a land tax in its place, by the merchants lowering the price of their goods 15 per cent.
You can make excellent quick biscuits by the above receipt, by substituting Hecker’s Prepared Flour for the barreled family flour, and omitting the baking-powder.
Tea Blanc-mange Is made in the same way by substitutingfor the water very strong, mixed tea.
What is to prevent it from achieving a very rapid elimination of the ape and the tiger, the Junker and the Tory, and substituting social enthusiasms for individual passions as the motive-power of human conduct?
We should thus have (let us say) Marcus Aurelius claiming a proconsulate under Nero, and, with very limited powers, gradually substituting order and humanity for oppression and rapine.
When the bill with amendments was reported to the House by the committee of the whole, on December 31, there was vigorous debate upon the question of substituting imprisonment of from five to ten years in place of the death penalty.
Hinsberg and Treupel have studied the physiological effect of substituting various alkyls for the hydrogen of the hydroxyl group in para-acetamido-phenol.
Entrance of hydroxyl groups in the catalytic poisons of the fatty series weakens toxic character; on the other hand, it exalts the toxicity of the substituting poisons.
To this distillate again a similar process may be used, substituting dry potassic carbonate for the calcic chloride.
On substituting boracic acid, none of these troubles were observed.
It was found that substituting ethyl for H in the imid group annihilated the narcotic and antipyretic properties.
The following is the result ofsubstituting certain alkyls for H in the HO group.
Morphia Lozenges= are made with the same accessories as opium lozenges, substituting morphine for opium; each lozenge contains 1/36 grain of hydrochlorate of morphia (1.
In view of these observations we consider ourselves justified in substituting the father for the totem animal in the male's formula of totemism.
Cheesecakes can be varied by putting almonds beaten instead of the lemon, or by substituting Seville oranges, and adding a few slices of candied orange and lemon peel.
Mix the various ingredients above-named, substituting for the raisins, apples minced finely, add a larger proportion of sugar, and either boil or bake.
Orange tarts are prepared in the same way, substituting oranges for the lemons.
They seem too, to have a remarkable aversion to all them thats, always substituting the words those who.
The movement for substituting the Magyar language for the Latin (which had previously been customary in the Diet at Presburg) was the revival of a struggle which had begun in the very time of Joseph II.
The Government of Kossuth, which wrongfully claimed to act for the Emperor, was substituting terror for equality, and had falsely spread the rumour that the Government desired to use the Roumanians to oppress the Magyar and Szekler.
However that may have been, the barbarous custom lasted down to the reign of Hadrian, when Diphilus, king of Cyprus, abolished or rather mitigated it by substituting the sacrifice of an ox for that of a man.
As time went on, the cruel custom was apparently mitigated in various ways; for example, by substituting an effigy or an animal for the man, or by allowing the destined victim to escape with a merely make-believe sacrifice.
In later ages the stern old custom might be softened down into a pretence by substituting an effigy for the queen or by allowing her to pass through the fire unscathed.
When the practice of human sacrifice becomes too revolting to humanity to be tolerated, its abolition is commonly effected by substituting either animals or images for living men or women.
The justice, the wisdom and necessity of substituting for this law those which appear at the head of this article, will be apparent.
I think it would be improved by substituting lonely for motionless.
You have opened the door of fathomless corruption by substituting the whim of an executive council for the law of nature.
This is a matter of fundamental importance, especially in its bearing upon the proposition, soon to be considered, of substituting a single uniform classification under government authority for the present threefold system.
Usually they prefer to absorb or control it otherwise, financially, thus substitutingmonopoly for a ruinous condition of competition.
But whether that may be used as an argument in favor of substituting a single uniform classification is open to serious doubt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "substituting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
