Brought up on classical Russian literature, Nicholas speaks a refined Russian unspoilt by the 70 years of Soviet rule or the ten years since its collapse, which makes him a linguistic foreigner in the land of his forefathers.Mr Chkhartishvili believes in the magical power of language: "call something a different name, and it will change its substance".
I couldn't get rid of all of it but I think I did manage to change its substance inside me.
So, shouldn't we take it with a grain of salt when the Republican leadership puts out a document saying that the G.O.P. should change only its rhetoric on economic issues, but change its substance on social issues?
If one substance is changed into another, does it change its essence or only some of its properties?
"It seems the commission has not changed its proposal in substance," Oel said.
While that certainly gets environmentalists up in arms about the need for the electronics industry to change its ways and eliminate these substances from their products, the Electronic Industry Alliance, an industry trade group, has pointed out that an electronic product is typically protected by a glass enclosure so that it doesn't leach into groundwater.
The Working Party also concluded, as regards the codification of the unchanged provisions of the earlier act with those substantive amendments, that the proposal contains a straightforward codification of the existing legal text, without any change in its substance.
In addition, it is not possible for any entity to have the same properties it had previously if its substance has changed, because it is not possible to transfer properties from one substance to another (Clarke, p. 798; Clarke and Collins, p. 113).
They want reassurance that Labour's style has changed as much as its substance.
A substance A that changes into another substance may obey a kinetic equation of the form v = k[A], which is a first-order reaction.
