act in place of
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It also opposes the Texas law, in part because both “would set a dangerous legal precedent,” since both are designed to skirt judicial review by empowering citizens to act in place of government officials.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2022
Usually such a situation is provided for in advance by a statute which designates the inferior officer who is to act in place of his immediate superior.
From 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 by Corwin, Edward Samuel
Sometimes he had been deputized to act in place of the regular scout master of the troop, when Lieutenant Denmead and Assistant Rawson chanced to be called away and could not serve.
From The Boy Scouts of the Flying Squadron by Shaler, Robert
This rule ought to be rigidly observed: Never cut straight across the activity of a child, but always substitute some other act in place of the one not desired.
From Parent and Child Volume III., Child Study and Training by Hall, Mosiah
Leaders may be chosen to act in place of the teacher.
From My Book of Indoor Games by Squareman, Clarence
