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The phrase "all substantive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that is significant, meaningful, or essential in a particular context.
Example: "The committee's discussion focused on all substantive issues that needed to be addressed before the final decision."
Alternatives: "all significant" or "all meaningful".
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As a practical matter, during the first 17 years of the community's existence, authority on all substantive issues remained vested in the national governments.
Before Brown came to "The New Yorker," in 1992, there were no editorial meetings because the editor-in-chief made all substantive decisions regarding nonfiction pieces.
"Alongside the FA, and the other principal stakeholders in the game, we want to fully investigate any and all substantive allegations of corruption, quickly and comprehensively.
"They're essentially the same on all substantive issues, so now they have turned to attacks based on character," said Robert M. Stein, a political scientist at Rice University.
The Ford Motor Company and the Chinese automaker, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, said Wednesday that they had settled "all substantive" details on a sale of Volvo, clearing the way for Geely to buy Ford's Swedish unit.
The boon of inheriting a Conservative party so out of tune with modern Britain has been that simply declaring an interest in the environment, poverty, democracy, Africa or gender is enough to generate positive early headlines, while setting up policy commissions which handily kick all substantive decisions into touch for 18 months.
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Yet despite all the substantive arguments for such plans, I still wonder whether one of them is the most likely outcome.
All the substantive discursive struggles have taken place mostly on the cultural front.
However, one can hardly find, if at all, any substantive discussions on any of these three questions; he tells us nothing about the options, their implications, or why the inquiry must end at an impasse.
All authors made a substantive contribution to all parts of this study.
All authors made a substantive contribution to all parts of the study: tool development, data collection and data analysis.
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