It effectively displaces oxygen, and so the victim dies of asphyxia.

On March 20, 1999, an arsonist set a $2 million USD fire that destroyed 2 offices and 10 classrooms, effectively displacing 400 of the 1,400 students on campus.

A growing body of academic research suggested that biofuels would effectively displace agricultural production and cause damaging land-use change in other parts of the world.

Thereafter OUP effectively displaced the Society as guardian and steward of the work.

By 1995 these PA-RISC systems effectively displaced the older family of machines from use.

Several species of trout were introduced to Australia and New Zealand by amateur fishing enthusiasts in the 19th century, effectively displacing and endangering several upland native fish species.

In whole grain foods, the higher fiber content effectively displaces some of the starch component of the flour.

His new colony effectively displaced many Lenape and forced others to adapt to new cultural demands.

In this world, he never entered the clergy and was able to father surviving children, so the Stuart dynasty effectively displaces that of the Hanoverians from that point on.

Because the ethanol component effectively displaces fossil fuels with energy harvested from renewable sources, in theory E85 is less carbon intensive than petroleum.