Sentence examples for a substantive sign from inspiring English sources

Because it's a substantive sign of when a campaign has become active, whether or not the candidate has officially declared — and because there's relatively solid data on it.

Certainly, Mr. Romney will win his fair share of independent voters because of the economy — and if there are substantive signs of economic decline in October and November, probably enough to win him the election.

Besides the recent surge in technology shares on Wall Street are more substantive signs like the fact that orders for many computer products and semiconductors are stabilizing and even gradually gaining ground.

The Vatican needs "more substantive signs of collaboration," he said.

Between 1962 and 1991, the CV for body size, as determined from commercial fishery catches, is estimated to have declined 55% (Rowe and Hutchings 2003), and northern cod continue to exhibit no substantive signs of recovery (DFO 2007).

But with Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, telling the Financial Times that "it does seem to me that News Corporation do control Sky already, so it isn't clear to me that in terms of media plurality there is a substantive charge", there appears little sign of that.

[Sign images are from the Manual of Traffic Signs, by Richard C. Moeur.] 4. This is not a substantive claim as long as we keep in mind the difference between linguistic understanding and utterance understanding.

A substantive disagreement.

She declined requests for a substantive interview.

But Robin then adds a substantive component.

There is a substantive point here.