- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Displace Quotes
What gets pushed out when something new arrives.
These quotes use 'displace' in strikingly different ways — protecting a child from being thrown out, language sidelining whole groups of people, or natural gas displacing coal in power plants.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Goal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
- Fragmentation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.
- Grips
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- Nov 07, 2020
When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source. Most people have difficulty coming to grips with the sheer enormity of energy consumption.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to start imagining a new reality - this will mean fewer police and more social workers and teachers. This will mean creating more economic possibilities and investment that preserves and does not displace our communities.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you have to offer a new theory that explains more data, and do so in a testable way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020