Sentence examples for become the substantive from inspiring English sources

In 1997, Mr. Mahama was appointed Deputy Minister of Communications; within the year he rose to become the substantive Minister of Communications, a position he held until January 2001, when the NDC government handed over power to the newly elected New Patriotic Party (NPP).

When this amendment was passed it became the substantive motion - and so effectively Stirling Council's budget for 2012/13.

St. Paul's has become the most substantive 9/11 monument around the World Trade Center site.

But I do agree with his basic insight: Conflict-of-interest accusations have become the simplest strategy for avoiding a substantive debate.

What is clear is that with over 110 heads of state beginning to arrive, declarations and increasingly substantive pronouncements have to become the order of the day.

And then there's Twitter, which has now become the transmitter of preference for campaigns of menace and harassment that would be criminal in any more substantive form.

Later generations of Protestant thinkers sometimes resorted to scholastic philosophical definitions similar to those of medieval theologians; in such definitions justification became the material (or substantive) principle of the Reformation, while the matter of scriptural authority became the equally important formal (or structural) principle.

As such an evolution proceeds, there may be an increasing tendency for individual systems analysts to become identified with the substantive area in which they work and to lose their special relations to systems analysis as a distinctive field.

The Shanghai organization members conduct joint military exercises, and analysts say that the group has aspirations to become more substantive, possibly even becoming a counterweight to NATO.

The rank became substantive the following year, when he was appointed Staff Officer Directorate of Works and Buildings at RAAF Headquarters, Melbourne, responsible for selection and improvement of airfield sites.

At the age of three, James was appointed Lord High Admiral; the position was initially honorary, but would become a substantive office after the Restoration, when James was an adult.