Sentence examples for a substantive shift from inspiring English sources

But evidence for a substantive shift in consumption habits is pretty slight, as this article by economists at the Center for American Progress suggests.

What began as a few dissidents questioning the pledge not to raise taxes that Norquist has championed over the past two decades — a pledge the vast majority of Republicans in both chambers have signed — is threatening to turn into something bigger: a substantive shift in policy, and a symbolic torching of outdated dogmas, with Grover on the top of the bonfire.

The late nineteenth century saw the beginning of a substantive shift in Canadian immigration patterns.

So if the NFL has yet to enact a substantive shift in its or its teams' attitudes toward domestic violence and the treatment of women, it's because the league's actions in the wake of the Rice case were never meant to have that effect.

BERLIN, May 7 (Reuters) - Germany is ruling out any substantive shift in its approach to Europe's debt crisis despite a rising chorus of opposition to Berlin's austerity policies that reached a crescendo in Sunday's elections in Greece and France.

In other words, if anything, this week's appointments would seem to represent a continuation of the ideological course Mr. Obama has been following since before he took the oath of office, rather than any substantive shift in his worldview.

Then again, the high-profile case of an old man being sent to die in a concrete box might spark an even more substantive shift toward reform.

This strong showing was seen by many as an indicator of a larger and more substantive shift in U.S. regional engagement.