Supplantation


Also found in: Thesaurus.
Translations
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
Benvenisti's quote vividly renders the act of supplantation upon
Telles furent ainsi jugees les dispositions portant sur la sous-traitance, la mise en disponibilite des employes et les droits de supplantation (191).
The supplantation of Glps by Eglps thus may be viewed as an example of natural Darwinian selection at the molecular level.
As Daniel Grassian observes in his Writing the Future of Black America: Literature of the Hip-Hop Generation, what these characters have in common with each other, as well as its protagonist and titular folk hero, is that each pushes up against extrinsic forms of limitation endemic to his era: racist institutions, the supplantation of human labour by industrial technology (in the case of John Henry), and the insatiable pop drivel demands of the information age (in the case of J.).
(21.) Of course, it is no surprise to anyone raised in the Judeo-Christian tradition that to test god should be considered as inherently an act of attempted domination or supplantation, and thus blasphemous, since it would put the deity in the inferior position of an object; in the Greco-Roman world, testing gods also rarely turns out well.
Les previsions emanant des etudes du changement climatique laissent presager que la supplantation du renard arctique par le renard roux s'etendra a l'Arctique alaskien, bien que le changement puisse se produire plus lentement en raison de l'eloignement de l'occupation humaine et de la nourriture anthropique.
Paperboard container demand will decline as a result of further supplantation of gabletop cartons by plastic bottles, especially in the milk and fruit beverage markets.
Departing only slightly from Lyon, Puchner claims that the manifesto not only commands the language of history, it necessarily organizes revolution as a narrative of supersession and supplantation. The manifesto concretizes a revolutionary historiography by opposing former political forms toward the inception of the new.
This process has been referred to as "supplantation" and has been subject to criticism by Congress.
Pakistan experienced all types of military intervention including influence, blackmail, displacement, and supplantation. The recent military coup of General Pervaiz Musharraf was a prime example of supplantation.