Sentence examples for a substantive question from inspiring English sources

A vote on whether a matter is procedural or substantive is itself a substantive question.

If Dartmouth was sincerely concerned with Ashton's foreign policy background, why didn't he ask a substantive question?

In that entire time, Judge Sotomayor has only twice dissented from a ruling on a substantive question of race discrimination.

Another change being contemplated: within the application, students could pose a substantive question (opposed to a technical one, which is possible now) to a rotating team of college counselors — say, how to determine whether to check more than one box regarding ethnicity or race.

But surely there is a substantive question lurking here.

It is a substantive question whether the former can happen only if the latter does.

It was not until the Presidential campaign that any substantive question was raised about the connection between Hillary Clinton's role as her husband's partner and First Lady and her role as a practicing attorney.

When the Supreme Court threw out Thomas Miller-El's death sentence (on the grounds that blacks were systematically excluded from serving as jurors in his case), the court paved the way for it, or a future court, to examine a more substantive question: whether any death penalty trial can ever be a fair one.

(Maybe I was really just being a grumpy customer complaining about having to schedule cleanings several weeks in advance, but in my head, at least, it was a more substantive question about balancing supply and demand).

To wit... 50 minutes without a single substantive question.

To which Leahy says, "Yes, I answered a more substantive question.