Sentence examples for a substantive answer from inspiring English sources

If she'd ventured a substantive answer and misidentified the Bush Doctrine as something it clearly is not, she'd be finished.

The standard response to a question like this is to sidestep it and say: "I've got a lot more to do," but Brown gave a substantive answer.

"Political for the mayor means, 'I don't have a substantive answer to the allegations being made but I have to say something, so let me attack,' " he said.

He concludes:Cain deserves some credit for addressing his critics and offering a substantive answer about China as a security threat, confirming reports that he has been cramming on foreign policy, but he still wasn't completely coherent or informed.

I could give very erudite and intimidating answers to other people, the sort of bullshit that anyone with an English degree can throw up as a smokescreen, but I didn't have a substantive answer that I believed in.

Mr. de Blasio offered little in the way of a substantive answer, declining to articulate an alternative way to pay for the plan, dismissing signs that the governor is leery of raising taxes, and concluding, blandly: "We have to focus on the positive notion that this is what the people of New York City want".

But what Aguilera lacked in any substantive answers to his questions, she made up for by announcing that she would be premiering her new music video for "Your Body" on his show this Wednesday.

With the two Republican candidates who spoke most frequently on these issues -- former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul -- out of the race, Ohio Gov. John Kasich seems to be the candidate left with the clearest record on criminal justice and the one who offered the most substantive answer to a criminal justice question at a debate.

Barra had no substantive answer.

No substantive answer is forthcoming; it would have to be taken as an inexplicable brute fact.

In its general form it clearly has no substantive answer, but its instances can yield modest and useful questions.