Three senior advisers to Mr. Maliki declined to comment substantively when contacted about the dismissals.
State Department officials have for months declined to comment substantively on Mobley's case, citing his privacy.
Also last week, the top two officials in the N.H.L. players' association, Donald Fehr and Steve Fehr, declined to comment substantively when asked about the tactic by reporters.
After the Masses yesterday, Msgr. Joseph Funaro, the pastor of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, also declined to comment substantively on the case, and said only that he was unhappy over the situation.
GREENBURGH, N.Y. - Rangers players and Coach John Tortorella declined to speak substantively Wednesday about the news that their former enforcer Derek Boogaard, who died last May of an accidental overdose of alcohol and painkillers, was found to have had the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Although Yale's admissions office continues to decline to comment substantively on the matter, the News has learned from unimpeachable sources that at least fifty girls -- and probably many more -- have applied this week for admission to Yale.
In multivariate logistic regression analyses for all adults (n = 750), odds of ≥ 1 PVC/hr declined precipitously from the hypomagnesemic reference group to 0.24 (95% CI: 0.07-0.87) in those with sMg 0.71-0.80 mmol/L in the fully adjusted model (Model 5); risk did not substantively change at higher sMg concentrations (Table 3).
Leslie Wayne (NYT) THE DEMOCRATS A WILLING RUNNING MATE Most Democrats or Republicans feign modesty and decline to comment substantively if they win speculative mention as a possible vice-presidential choice.
Substantively, it does not address the structural problems plaguing the American economy: wage stagnation, inequality, declining growth rates.
The Other (Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran) differential is -0.139 log points for 2000 and -0.429 log points for 2002, a statistically significant and substantively large decline of 0.290 log points.
