Sentence examples for by substantive from inspiring English sources

They are due in court in January for a procedural hearing, followed by substantive court sessions later in the year.

Support for states' rights has often been opportunistic, driven by substantive goals like the defense of slavery or opposition to women's suffrage, economic regulation or civil rights.

The Government now needs to set out a long term agenda which demonstrates that its rhetoric about creating real opportunity is backed up by substantive policies.

"That's why we say you have to have real, material spending changes, which then are backed up by substantive process reforms".

The fervor in Chongqing has not been accompanied by substantive efforts to shift away from capitalism and back toward collective ownership of the economy, but it has prompted wary watchfulness by multinationals.

This is a strangely compelling argument for some: even though Bingu was clearly going off the rails towards the end of his life, the early years of his presidency had been marked by substantive economic development.

For what it is to be an object or property evidently cannot be conveyed merely by ostension, nor by more substantive criteria, without being restrictive in ways that beg the question against various views of what objects or properties there are.

Featuring the Tory logo – prompting one Conservative MP to ask if permission had been sought – the mock manifesto was, Smith insisted, a credible picture of a Conservative programme "if they were wholly unfettered, both by coalition, or indeed by a substantive and credible opposition in the Labour party".

The kinds of things we noted, the connection of things by the simultaneity rather than by their substantive connection is as common in business firms as it is in educational institutions.

The fact that, other things equal, an institution's say-so makes law, is a primitive legal fact, or at least a legal fact that is not to be explained by either the nature of interpretation or by a substantive interpretive conclusion in the legal domain.

Notice that the possibility of disagreement about grounds is implied not only by the controversial nature of morality, but already by the substantive (therefore potentially controversial) character of the grounds.