Sentence examples for at the substantive from inspiring English sources

Does that get at the "substantive issue"?

But let's take a look at the substantive vision he was setting forth.

An essay that takes aim at the substantive values and procedures employed by universities in their efforts to regulate sexual relationships on campus is not, and cannot rationally be taken to be, an act of discrimination, retaliation, or harassment directed against any particular student who may have filed such a complaint.

15 For example, if market share is deemed low, a merger is waived without looking at the substantive side of a case, assuming implicitly that mergers between firms with relatively low market share are unlikely to cause problems.

And he hinted at some of the substantive aspects of his candidacy when he said he would continue Mr. Giuliani's emphasis on crime-fighting while moving ahead on schools and public health.

* See the Report of the Preparatory Committee on its First Substantive Session, (A 55/43 (Part II)) [word | pdf] NGO Caucuses and other events at the First Substantive Session.[word | pdf] Report of official NGO presentations during the First Substantive Session, prepared by the NGO Committee on UNICEF (28 June 2000).

Mr Mankiw said at the time:On the substantive question that Paul raises about the unit root literature and the distinction between cyclical and other fluctuations in output, it is an issue that Campbell and I addressed in a companion paper, where we decided that the conventional wisdom on this matter, which Paul still espouses, does not hold.

Others argue that legitimacy depends exclusively or at least in part on the substantive values that are realized.

You see, in that same Washington Journal segment, Buchanan goes on at length to echo the substantive and reasonable concerns shared by Jonathan Turley -- criticisms which have no racial component at all, and which critique Sotomayor's intellectual depth in a perfectly honest way.

At this preliminary stage, the substantive conclusions emanating from this research are limited.

But again, it's very hard to get at the more substantive questions.