The phrase "a substantial relation to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the significance or connection between two or more concepts, events, or entities.
Example: "The study found a substantial relation to the increase in pollution levels and the rise in respiratory diseases."
Alternatives: "a significant connection to" or "a meaningful link to".
Finally, Congress's commerce authority includes the power to regulate those activities having a substantial relation to interstate commerce, i.e., those activities that substantially affect interstate commerce".... Several significant considerations contributed to our decision [in Lopez].
The measure bore a substantial relation to the evils found to exist.
Furthermore, recent decisions require not only that a federal statute pertain to "activities having a substantial relation to interstate commerce," but also that the statute pass muster under the necessary and proper clause: Congress may "make all laws..
These findings illustrate that an independent, corpus-based characterization of word meaning, obtained without brain imaging data, bears a substantial relation to the characterization obtained through factor analysis of the brain activation patterns.
The objective is to extract best practices of CDM, i.e. to identify structure and process variables with a substantial relation to clinical outcome.
By identifying elements of best practice CDM (i.e. aspects of CDM with a substantial relation to good treatment outcome), CEDAR will provide evidence directly contributing to optimising the delivery of health care to European citizens.
Clearly the fact that an applicant for a license holds a diploma from a reputable dental college has a direct and substantial relation to his qualification to practice dentistry.
Section 434(f)(5), which equates contracts to make disbursements with actual disbursements requiring disclosure of contracts to make electioneering communications prior to their public dissemination, lacks a "relevant correlation" or "substantial relation," to a legitimate governmental interest.
Those activities which have a real and substantial relation to the business transacted by the citizen of another state within her confines are, of course, subject to regulation and to taxation.
Furthermore, the Court articulated some general standards: the measure must have a real and substantial relation to the public health goal and the burden caused must not be disproportionate to the benefit.
But the classification must be reasonable, not arbitrary, and must rest upon some ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the iegislation, so that all persons similarly circumstanced shall be treated alike.
