In the event, they found the white paper was so insubstantial they had very little to say.
But they are as insubstantial (or at least unverifiable) as a trip to the stall next door, where the wares seem suspiciously different.
But the words seem cheap and insubstantial, however accurate they may be, in the face of the real thing.
These figures produced exhibitions, texts, even beautifully designed invitations and posters in an attempt to advocate for and make concrete what many saw as insubstantial and confusing.
Spurned then by the Israelis, his Palestinian Liberation Organisation in turn spurned the vague and insubstantial self-rule that Egypt's Anwar Sadat vicariously negotiated at Camp David on the Palestinian people's behalf.
Surprisingly, his insubstantial interim review in October made no mention of polyclinics.
The more local support, the more likely a young firm is to try and tap the not insubstantial resources available from Washington angel investors and venture capital firms.
His speeches become dull and mechanical, his arguments as insubstantial as his eyebrows.
But the autonomy granted seems insubstantial, especially since the central government split the region into two, creating a new province of West Papua in 2003.
The insubstantial particles are the neutrinos; they have no electric charge, and until recently they were thought to have no mass at all.
With $2 billion in assets, it remains tiny by multinational banking standards, but it is not insubstantial.
