Sentence examples for Get substantive from inspiring English sources

Some of us hoped that he would get substantive at a nonstump speech at the U.C.L.A. Center for International Relations.

Whether we like it or not, we will not get substantive action unless the growing scepticism in the electorate is addressed.

Israel will refrain from provocations of the Ramat Shlomo kind (those planned 1,600 housing units in East Jerusalem) and will promise to get substantive, on borders above all.

But such a cop-out would reinforce the impression that the WTO cannot get substantive deals done.As The Economist went to press, negotiators haggling at the WTO's headquarters in Geneva still seemed hopeful that an agreement would be reached.

The Republicans are accusing Democrats of blocking the measure with unrelated amendments, but the Democrats insist that this is their only opportunity as a squelched minority to get substantive proposals about overtime pay and worker displacement onto the floor.

And even if they get substantive, the details are daunting.

Germans have been getting substantive social assistance since Bismarck and surely will continue to expect it.

My concern was being inspected by a team which hadn't got substantive school headship between them.

"If you really want to make change, you've got to make substantive efforts -- you can't just do a gesture," he said.

Sutton gives them a greatest-hits tour of his past, while readers get more substantive flashbacks.

We probably won't get a substantive response until tomorrow, when the new Lib Dem MPs are meeting in Westminster.