How To Use Supersede In A Sentence

Some of these commentators build up dialectics into an alternative to all previous forms of logic, something that supersedes such ordinary reasoning as the simple syllogistic form of argument set out on the first page of this chapter.
Sometime after AD 73 this was superseded by a palace, built using many exotic imported materials and surrounded by gardens and landscaped parkland.
Only in later periods, when Queen Anne was superseded by Colonial Revival and Colonial Imitation, did gambrel roofs become synonymous with Dutch architecture.
In Ireland the justiciar was the king's chief representative in the 13th cent. until superseded by the king's lieutenant, the lord deputy, and the lord-lieutenant.
It was the forerunner to the sos call which in turn was superseded, in the days of voice radio, by the now standard Mayday call. LET NOT THE DEEP

There, Chandler concluded that the management of corporate giants had superseded market mechanisms as the defining element of economic activity.
Immediate business goals will supersede long-term goals for affirmative action.
Torsion catapults continued to be built into the time of the barbarian invasions when they were superseded by a traction artillery piece, the trebuchet.
In the seventh edition (1720) I find to my great solace and comfort the entry, dog, 'a well-known creature, 'a somewhat meagre definition, improved into 'a quadruped well-known' by Nathaniel Bailey, whose dictionary, first published in octavo (1721), ran through a very large number of editions and became the standard authority until superseded by Johnson. On Dictionaries
Although the faraday, the measure of an electrical charge named after him (one faraday is equal to the charge of 6.02 × 1023), has been superseded by the SI unit coulomb, Faraday's name continues to live through the farad.
Pages printed on one or both sides, gathered into quires or folios, superseded papyrus and parchment rolls in the fourth century CE.
How was it ever superseded by that revved-up fruit shake, the piña colada? Times, Sunday Times
The investment mandate and re - balancing instruction given below will supersede all those recorded previously.
These were superseded by more substantial updraught kilns which have been found right across the northern suburbs.
These terms supersede all prior agreements and (together with the Privacy Policy) are complete and exclusive. The Latest From www.politics.co.uk
If enough users of English adopt different conventions, those agreements will be superseded. Times, Sunday Times
The baffy, or spoon, is a very useful club, which at one time was a great favourite with many fine players, and if it has of late years been largely superseded by the cleek, it is still most valuable to those players who are not so skilful or reliable with this latter instrument as they would like to be. The Complete Golfer
I know Rich doesn't understand the word "supersede" but that doesn't mean anything to me. Blast From the Past
The good sense of the community has seconded the efforts of the Legislature; and now, even in the country, the pentagonal construction has superseded every other.
But we cannot, since even Adam, in innocence, needed one amidst his earthly employments; therefore the sabbath is still needed and is therefore still linked with the other nine commandments, as obligatory in the spirit, though the letter of the law has been superseded by that higher spirit of love which is the essence of law and Gospel alike (Ro 13: 8-10). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
In emotional and mental strength she far supersedes a man.
People claimed that the precedent set out by the sleeper hit in 1998 was finally superseded.
_Lentibularia_ is an old generic name of Tournefort's, which has been superseded by _utricularia, _ but, oddly enough, has been retained in the name of the order _lentibulareæ_; but it probably comes from _lenticula_, which signifies the little root bladders, somewhat resembling lentils. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
But in Victorian times it suffered a slow demise, as barrel organs and harmoniums replaced the bands, and a surpliced choir in the chancel tended to supersede the old gallery singers, bringing a return to conventional art music.
And the wisdom of old age will supersede the passion of our youth.
In addition, in its celebration of irreducible difference, postmodernism has been castigated for replicating the very categories of racist ideological thought that it is intended to supersede.
Hand tools are relics of the past that have now been superseded by the machine.
I think HGilbert arrived with Anne at the important turns in the government's pursuit in the 4th court of an alient "student"; as the Rasul Scotus certification addresses and somewhat supersedes Eisentrager with respect to where the detainee is apprehended. Balkinization
Staying a money judgment in federal court without posting a supersedeas bond. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Judge releases Rezko on $8.5 million bond
The general principle of tax law that income from an individual member's property thrown into the family hotchpot is taxable as the income of the joint family, is superseded by section 64.
Of course in large alluvial claims, where capital is employed, such appliances are superseded by steam puddles, buddles, and other machinery, and sometimes mercury is used to amalgamate the gold when very fine. Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
The rest of the parish sketches will devote themselves to anatomizing the differences between this superseded charity and this emergent reform.
They were superseded later in the Middle Ages, being replaced by a single movable lectern.
It was, at one point, America's popular music, and you know, it gets kind of superseded with the emergence of rock 'n' and roll and some would say rhythm and blues before then, but it was very popular, and she was a popular singer; never had the popularity of someone like Ella Fitzgerald because of the kinds of artistic choices and the artistic integrity that she had, but certainly she was a popular singer. Remembering Billie, 'With Love From Dee Dee'
More accurate clocks based on the regular vibrations of a quartz crystal superseded them.
The old lacquer-work is difficult to get, and, when obtained, is high in price; but comparison between the old and the new shows the gulf that lies between the loving and skilful labour of the artist and the stupid and generally "scamped" achievement of him who merely "knocks off" candlesticks and tobacco-boxes by the score, to sell to the English visitor -- papier-maché being superseded by wood, and lacquer by paint. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
Great writerly in-jokes, (onionskin paper, for one), and a hearty fuck-you to those who dare to carp about what they can never grasp, it supersedes genre toys to achieve world-class architecture even while maintaining the clearest voice I've seen since Hemingway, Vonnegut, or Harper Lee. "Grow till tall. They all, in the end, will fall."
In New Hampshire, where pleadings had always been simple, clear, and direct, the lawyers introduced more sophistication and complexity during the years 1692 to 1700; the action of ejectment, the writs of scire facias and supersedeas, the action of trespass de bonis asportatis, entered New Hampshire as immigrants at this time.55 Students of Massachusetts law on the eve of the Revolution have declared it to be quite conservative, at least by earlier standards. A History of American Law
In 1892 this was superseded by a fresh cancellation with "Bathurst" above and "Gambia" below, both following the line of the circle, the date across the centre as before, and the control letter being C. Gambia
[3] The term motive is applicable in all cases where the regular operations of inanimate matter are superseded by the interference of intelligence. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
Luke Fox, being ice-bound and in peril, writes, “God thinks upon our imprisonment within a supersedeas;” but he was a good and honourable man as wall as euphuist. The North-West Passage
He superimposed text on both drawing and script: Text supersedes handwritten script, however, and exerts its hierarchical superiority.
This classical, Laplacian picture has of course been superseded by the development of quantum mechanics, beginning in the first couple of decades of the 20th century. Religion and Science
But the point made is that, at some stage in life, propriety must supersede convenience.
We have several young novelists here who are trying to invent a form to supersede Balzac's.
The difficulty of course is that, where the later contract is intended to supersede the prior contract, it may in the generality of cases simply be useless to try to construe the later contract by reference to the earlier one.
Motorways have largely superseded ordinary roads for long-distance travel.
Human and ecological wellbeing must supersede economic concerns if only because economies depend on ecosystems.
Therefore he decides that although the First Amendment forbids Congress to abridge political speech, that proscription is somehow superseded by Congress's right to, in Breyer's words, "inhibit" some "speech opportunities" in the name of fine-tuning "a democratic conversation. Mr. Breyer's 'Modesty'
While many developments in theoretical analysis have superseded structuralism, I use the term post-structuralism in two ways.
At the same time the passion for collecting grew, and many nobles displayed their sumptuous collections in long galleries, which superseded the studioli of Renaissance collectors.
But these manoeuvres were quickly superseded by the threat of civil war. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Vinyl replaced leather; bright prints superseded dark brocades; unadorned acrylic and plywood was employed instead of hardwood, and tubular steel instead of wrought iron.
This agreement supersedes any prior agreements or understandings between the parties as to this subject matter.
Retorts are the most employed of any kind of distilling vessels in the practice of modern chemistry, having in England almost superseded the use of all others.
The journal worried that the ‘necessity for courage and strategy may be in some degree superseded by mechanical and chemical contrivances.’
_denes_, or hamlets, with their adjacent districts, superseded the old tribes. Outline of Universal History
The existing blacklist of substances not to be dumped at sea would be superseded by the blanket ban.
Like cassette players and wind-up windows, the humble wing mirror is about to be superseded by technology. Times, Sunday Times
In time, the king and the Witenagemot granted charters in other cases, and the new 'bookland' to a great extent superseded the old 'folkland,' accompanied by a grant of the right of holding special courts. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII
Supersede is the standard spelling but there is indeed such a word as supercede. Times, Sunday Times
Among the lower animals, up even to those first cousins of the vertebrated animals, the Tunicates, the two processes occur side by side, but finally the sexual method superseded its competitor altogether. The War of The Worlds
This striking design supersedes the high fashion mantel, recently to have flooded the market, and provides a longer lasting, more sophisticated and timeless alternative.
He thought that experiments proved all acids to be compounds of the element oxygen; and for many years after Lavoisier, the alchemical expression _the principle of acidity_ was superseded by the word _oxygen_. The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
Deregulation promotes programming in which mediocrity supersedes excellence, and conformity and orthodoxy are reinforced at the expense of diversity.
The desire to win medals superseded their collective moral and ethical compass and Olympic values of fair play. Times, Sunday Times
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all previous written or oral agreements between the parties with respect to such subject matter.
If the formal flamboyance of his '60s films has been replaced by complexity and their humour superseded by an intensified sensitivity to beauty, it is only to be expected and welcomed.
Supersede is the standard spelling but there is indeed such a word as supercede. Times, Sunday Times
The morality of aseptic rationalism has superseded that of spiritual regeneration.
The shock of the new was superseded by a spiteful distaste for the prematurely aged.
The system of Auguste Comte designed to supersede theology and metaphysics and depending on a hierarchy of the sciences, beginning with mathematics and culminating in sociology.
Immediate business goals will supersede long-term goals for affirmative action.
For existentialism defines the human condition as a perpetual beginning, an unfinished finality which, persisting in the depths of our wretchedness as in the heights of our glory, can never be superseded.
But these manoeuvres were quickly superseded by the threat of civil war. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
During this period the system of highly segmented and competitive clan politics was superseded, suppressed, and in abeyance.
Since when does the Greek origin of the word supersede the English meaning? The Volokh Conspiracy » A Riddle:
While researching World War II for a script, I came across a definition of race as classified by looks -- how close were the eyes to the nose to the chin, the color of hair -- that defined opportunity, the prejudice of predefinition that superseded both the potential of the individual and the needs of entire nations. Janet Ritz: The Prejudice of Predefinition
Panzer's 'Annalen der altern Deutschen Litteratur' to 1526, which appeared at Nürnberg in two volumes between 1788 and 1805, has not yet been entirely superseded; though considerable additions have been made by The Book-Hunter at Home
But these manoeuvres were quickly superseded by the threat of civil war. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Ultimately, the rapper's voice - which is more irritating than a mosquito bite on the part of your back you can't scratch - supersedes any of the humour, while the rhymes are too basic to imbue the album with any redeeming content.
The original schedule 2 in the bill - which has now been superseded - was very much more prescriptive and clear about what needed to be enforced and what was acceptable and unacceptable.
In this show of works from 2001, he could be seen moving in a few different directions, but one major tendency dominated: fantasy now supersedes any interest in architectural reality.
Its overture is taken up with the analogy between the king of the nation and the father of the nuclear family that is beginning to supersede the extended family of earlier centuries.
Uncle Paul took out his watch again, and this time their landlady took the hint, and hurried into the kitchen, from which delicious odours soon began to escape, and in the midst of the examination upon the window-sill, where the bright sun lit up the lenses of the microscope, the magnified hydrae, with their buds and wondrous developments, were set aside, to be superseded by the morning meal. The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise
Similarly, even as sophisticated quantitative mensuration came gradually to supersede the qualitative analyses of medieval science, alchemists and astrologers serenely continued their work.
This has now been superseded by new information received only today. Times, Sunday Times
These were superseded by more substantial updraught kilns which have been found right across the northern suburbs.
This paper describes the study of low phosphate style concentrate laundry powder prescription that part of the sodium tripolyphosphate is superseded by the natural zeolite.
A supersedeas is a writ, or order, to suspend the powers of an officer, or to stay -- that is, stop -- action under another writ. Civil Government of Virginia
It was clear to a mind so acute as Bruno's that the dogmas of the Church were correlated to a view of the world which had been superseded; and he drew the logical inference that they were at bottom but poetical and popular adumbrations of the Deity in terms concordant with erroneous physical notions. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
When the cuneiform syllabary was superseded in Palestine by the so-called Phoenician alphabet we do not know. Patriarchal Palestine
If the formal flamboyance of his '60s films has been replaced by complexity and their humour superseded by an intensified sensitivity to beauty, it is only to be expected and welcomed.
Dissent may have challenged nationalism, but the presence of neutrals, the disaffected, and Tories never completely superseded the wider community of interests.
It is true, as Rennie states, that Karl Popper's work on falsifying scientific theory has been superseded by other philosophies of science, but we would say that the ‘falsification approach’ is still valid.
This is partly to be explained by the decline of narrative painting as a vigorous art form in Australia; the medium of film has to a large degree superseded this art form.
This law supersedes Godwin, so that even if the quote is about Hitler, the quoter still wins. 10 Geeky Laws That Should Exist
Will factory workers be entirely superseded by machines one day?
Accordingly, a surety company, objecting to the entry of a judgment against it on a supersedeas bond, without notice and an opportunity of a hearing on the issue of liability thereon, was not denied due process where the State practice provided the opportunity for such hearing by an appeal from the judgment so entered. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
If enough users of English adopt different conventions, those agreements will be superseded. Times, Sunday Times
In time, the king and the Witenagemot granted charters in other cases, and the new 'bookland' to a great extent superseded the old 'folkland,' accompanied by a grant of the right of holding special courts. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII
Political correction and human rights have superseded responsible behaviour and respect for others and their property.
As feeling gradually develops, the screen space is made luminous by movements of the heart that slowly supersede the narrative drive of the film.
The carat system is increasingly being complemented or superseded by the millesimal fineness system in which the purity of precious metals is denoted by parts per thousand of pure metal in the alloy.
When a shipper is unable to insert the name of the consignee at the time the bill of lading is made out, a _bill to order_ is drawn up wherein the consignee's name is superseded by the words _shipper's order_, or simply _order_; it being thus understood that the goods shall be delivered to whomsoever presents, at point of destination, the bill of lading duly indorsed by the shipper. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)
Note that the makeup exam grade will supersede the previous final course grade.
In psychotheism it appears as _devilism_ in obedience to a well-known law of comparative theology, viz, that the gods of a lower and superseded stage of culture oftentimes become the devils of a higher stage. Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56
The genes responsible for such syndromes increase cancer risk to such an extent that all other factors are largely superseded.
The voice of the people finally superseded the restoration trend of thought.
According to the Christian tradition, the divine both embraces all peoples and yet destines some to ‘supersede’ and bring final truth to all the others.
[14] In most vertebrated animals this process of gastrulation has been more or less superseded by another, which is called delamination; but it scarcely seems necessary for our present purposes to describe the latter. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
The language of dualism or of multiplism is not incorrect or inappropriable or superseded because we catch ideal glimpses of an ultimate unity; nor would it be any the less appropriable if the underlying unity could be more clearly or completely grasped. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
By the 1880s, antisepsis had been superseded by asepsis, which involved the scrupulous attention to maintaining sterile operating conditions. Gowns, Germs and Steel
But is it not the case that literature supersedes history, as one of the ultimate signifiers in a universe literate in necessary layers of meanings?
Is originality tantamount to our work, in a way that supersedes effectiveness?
BRONCHOTOMY (Gr. [Greek: bronchos], wind-pipe, and [Greek: temnein], to cut), a medical term used to describe a surgical incision into the throat; now largely superseded by the terms laryngotomy, thyrotomy and tracheotomy, which indicate more accurately the place of incision. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
This has now been superseded by new information received only today. Times, Sunday Times
Hell, as a commercial icon it even supersedes the legendary Day After Thanksgiving.
There are some writers for whom style supersedes character, for whom the "authorial" character is the main character, and their fiction doesn't suffer in the least from it. Style in Fiction
In current pedagogic fashion, behaviourist practices have been largely superseded by cognitive and communicative perspectives on learning.
The old cylindrical ear-piercing fife is an obsolete instrument, being superseded by a small army flute, still, however, called a fife, used with the side drum in the drum and fife band. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
The Modernist obsession with control is superseded by a more responsive, flexible armature for different sorts of activities.
Plaintiffs do not seek the intervention of this Court to controvert or supersede the legitimate role of the local Governing Board to make curricular decisions. Jeff Biggers: Ethnic Studies Court Emergency in Arizona: Only an Injunction Can Prevent Irreparable Harm
Eventually her interest in the family superseded her interest in the tax regime and she then devoted all of her time to it.
Rosewal and Lilian, and, replacing his three-stringed fiddle, or rebeck, in its leathern case, followed the crowd, with no good-will, to the exhibition which had superseded his own. The Abbot
The story takes place in world where senators have their own black-opts division and directly employ more than 20,000 people, a world where the USA constitution has been superseded by NAFTA, a world where people can be pupated by rogue AI. Archive 2007-12-01
His son began to supersede Mrs Bangham, and to execute commissions in a knowing manner, and to be of the prison prisonous, of the streets streety. Little Dorrit
The desire to win medals superseded their collective moral and ethical compass and Olympic values of fair play. Times, Sunday Times
The experiments they cite have methodological weaknesses that limit their relevance to humans, or have been superseded by more exhaustive research. Times, Sunday Times
‘Functional nervous disorder’ was used in the late 19th century to denote symptoms arising from disordered nervous functioning, but in the 20th century this was superseded by terms that implied psychogenesis, such as psychosomatic.
He, together with the Vice President, shall hold his office for one year, or until this Provisional Government shall be superseded by a permanent government, whichsoever shall first occur.
Any double or redouble is superseded by a subsequent legal bid.
Old Masters - a way of working that was then common in commercial art, before being superseded by more modest media such as gouache, watercolour and digital image-making. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The Neo supersedes the current Deluxe model, though the latter is likely to be around until the end of the year, reflecting a higher level of stock in Handspring's warehouses.
European grain, and fruit-trees, and by bringing the old Roman plough, which is used to this day in Mexico as in Spain, where two thousand years have not superseded its use or even altered it. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
In more recent works that use juxtaposed panels to create a fiat, multipartite surface, any narrative possibility has been superseded by a more complex play of continuity and jump cuts.
The administration needs to show that S.B. 1070, Arizona's law authorizing state officials to enforce federal immigration law, is "preempted" - that it runs afoul of the Constitution's Supremacy Clause, which confirms that federal law supersedes state law. The Weekly Standard Blog
Should regulation, based on international principles, supersede political intervention in the name of the national interest?
To say that the digital age will supersede the analog age suggests a kind of technological determinism that begs the interesting questions that are larger than technology.
The eastern part of the clerestory is a modern reproduction of that which superseded Rahere's; but, with this exception, the interior of the choir was probably much the same originally as it is Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less
Narrative supersedes melody time after time; there are no real songs, just cacophonous noodling and stacks and stacks of polysyllabic words.
It would be crazy to think of introducing another by-law to supersede one we have not even introduced yet.
However, after Haynes shoots Pugh off-screen in a cornfield, the film transforms into a road movie where character development supersedes action.
She superseded the old statue.
The existing blacklist of substances not to be dumped at sea would be superseded by the blanket ban.
It's been in disuse for the last few years - war superseded their need for it.
Felibien, the French author of the _Lives of Architects_, divides Gothic architecture into two distinct kinds -- the _massive_ and the _light_; and as the latter superseded the former, the term Gothic, which had been originally applied to both kinds, seems to have been restricted improperly to the latter only. Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849
His execution, in spite of the _ "supersedeas" _ which goes by law with every such suit, was the last of this series of judicial outrages. [ The American Judiciary
On May 31st Chief Justice Fuller of the United States Supreme Court, upon application of the State, granted a writ of supersedeas commanding that the order of the lower court "be stayed and suspended, and that the properties of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company be left in the hands of its officers until the further order of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. The Life and Speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock
These various names were, in the Middle Ages, mostly superseded by the term choir, which in turn yielded to the modern term sanctuary. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
I have sometimes been with the swinging hammock the native mother prepares for her sick infant – apparently so much easier than aught we have in our more civilized homes; easier for the child, because it gets the motion without the least jar; and easier for the nurse, because the hammock is strung so high as to supersede the necessity of stooping. Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828
Jaundice is palliated by stenting the stricture at the lower end of the common bile duct; this has superseded operative palliation.
But word is going round from mouth to mouth that many sahibs have been superseded, and that only real sahibs such as Byng-bahadur have commands in this hour. Rung Ho
For all that, his talent for logical argument, the dispensation of balanced advice and an understanding of politics superseded his talent for music, and he opted for a career in diplomacy, with music as an important sideline.
The desire to win medals superseded their collective moral and ethical compass and Olympic values of fair play. Times, Sunday Times
Heidegger suggests two paths toward understanding 'expropriation': the event supersedes epochal-destinal unconcealment in such a way that, firstly, "it can be retained neither as being nor as time; it is, so to speak, a neutrale tantum, the neutral 'and' in the title "Time and Being.' Enowning
The desire to win medals superseded their collective moral and ethical compass and Olympic values of fair play. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the low interest rates are being paid to holders of so-called superseded accounts, which are closed to new customers. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The PLO said publicly that the armed struggle had been "superseded" by the peace process. Peace At Last?
Worldwide, sturdy bells quickly superseded decomposable, and edible, cheese balls as jesters 'preferred cap ornaments. Osmo's Bells
Be careful to note in this clause that the will supersedes all previous wills, making them null and void.
Accounting tends to supersede direct observation because the units to be controlled are usually many and they are also probably geographically dispersed.
English borrowed the digraph th from Latin, where it served to transliterate Greek theta; th superseded other symbols for the dental fricative following the advent of printing.
Gone are the artist's impressions of a new Lord's Tube station, latterly superseded by proposals for an underground car park in the old railway tunnels, for four residential tower blocks at the Nursery end and a submerged Real Tennis court. Sport news in brief
For example, 30/70 for the superactive and perhaps 90/10 for the middle-aged supersedentary. Times, Sunday Times
The charitable thing to say is that she was a pioneer in the field, and her research has been "superseded". Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs
A bridge across the North Platte would have been a huge help and we made idle talk about the possibility of buying the beautiful old Pick Bridge downriver, still in place though superseded by a standard concrete bridge. Bird Cloud
He was superseded by a young girl for the post.
Their map has since been superseded by photographic atlases.
Early Christians often denigrated traditional Jewish sacrificial ritual as inadequate and "fleshly" rather than spiritual, and argued that Jesus 'death had superseded it. The Betrayer's Gospel
Finally, Frink and Walker's stage routes also helped lay the groundwork for the rail network that quickly superseded stagecoaches as the region's primary means of mass transportation.
In New Hampshire, where pleadings had always been simple, clear, and direct, the lawyers introduced more sophistication and complexity during the years 1692 to 1700; the action of ejectment, the writs of scire facias and supersedeas, the action of trespass de bonis asportatis, entered New Hampshire as immigrants at this time.55 Students of Massachusetts law on the eve of the Revolution have declared it to be quite conservative, at least by earlier standards. A History of American Law
Iron began to supersede bronze for tool making about 3000 years ago.
Her photos communicate an openness to interpretation that supersedes the occasional temporal markers of bell-bottom pants or early punk hairdos.
She commonly depicts family gatherings, people sitting around a table in a restaurant, folks frolicking at the beach, children playing and people traveling; groups supersede the individual.
Change lay ahead, and the mills and traction engines would be superseded as working units, but interest in them has not died.
The instrument, called a supersedeas bond, stays execution of a circuit court's approval while the appeal is pending. The Home Equity Theft Reporter Cases & Articles
Although the argon laser offered the best available treatment for a time, newer lasers have now superseded it.
The theory has been superseded by more recent research.
Stone Quarry and those who lived above the line where nicotiana grew, used the kinni-kinik or bark of the red willow and some seven other succedanea. 194 But tobacco proper, which soon superseded all materials except hemp and opium, was first adopted by the Spaniards of Santo Domingo in A.D. 1496 and reached England in 1565. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
People who can spell "supersede" correctly are few and far between. Report: Obama Picks Daschle For Health And Human Services
The use of robots will someday supersede manual labor.
It was the forerunner to the sos call which in turn was superseded, in the days of voice radio, by the now standard Mayday call. LET NOT THE DEEP
Americans know Europe as the society against which the US rebelled and, in the American mind, superseded.
As the Modern Industrial Age is superseded by the Electronic Information age, wizardry will flourish and scientists will be relegated to the role of technicians.
Like cassette players and wind-up windows, the humble wing mirror is about to be superseded by technology. Times, Sunday Times
In the commercial world new technologies supersede the old.
We sincerely trust to hear that Butler has been superseded; but certain laboured attempts which have been made to explain away some of the wickedness of his ferocious edict do not seem to point in the desirable direction. London, Saturday, June 21, 1862
Why did the common name fruit fly supersede vinegar or pomace fly?
It is not to claim that specific community understandings are 'superseded' by this universal principle, rather to claim that they all need to be undergirded by it. Archbishop's Lecture - Civil and Religious Law in England
Occasionally the aesthetic focus supersedes function, elevating the piece to ‘uselessness.’
But with a fully realized character, the effect outlasts the reading, even supersedes it.
In Chechnya, clan loyalties often supersede political alliances.
People claimed that the precedent set out by the sleeper hit in 1998 was finally superseded.
In the middle Iron Age, open settlement was superseded by a large enclosure surrounded by a 6m-wide ditch, with an associated field system.
In old music a dot was sometimes placed at the beginning of a bar, having reference to the last note of the preceding bar; this method of writing was not convenient, as the dot might easily escape notice, and it is now superseded by the use of the bind in similar cases.
Larger versions, like the barrel organs and orchestrions, filled the same role as the gramophone, which superseded them, and has since been supplanted in its turn by the CD player.
Electroplate superseded Sheffield Plate as the way to mass produce silver substitutes.
Motorways have largely superseded ordinary roads for long-distance travel.
The setting of a trap for finding out whether it was accidentally done, soon superseded, as a practical piece of cunning, the abstruser inquiry why otherwise it was done. Our Mutual Friend

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