Sentence examples for devoid of any substantive from inspiring English sources
From the moment prosecutors set the charge, usually a few hours to a few days after arrest, these kids are thrown into a process devoid of any substantive examination of their lives or the circumstances that brought them to the justice system, a process that typically ends with a perfunctory guilty plea and a lengthy prison sentence.
In our view, however, a role for NB in pathogenesis, if any, is devoid of any substantive meaning unless NB can be defined chemically and structurally first, which we have sought to define here in this study.
Just like the 99percentt movement his class warfare rhetoric inspired, it is devoid of a substantive base.
Look, I'm all for proposing substantive, sophisticated reference points in an industry usually devoid of any depth whatsoever, but you have to aesthetically back them up with clothing that somehow reflects the "theme", or whatever.
J. Craig Venter, founder of Celera and, until recently, the company's chief scientist, called the paper "game-playing at the worst level in academics" and said it was devoid of "substantive science".
After a first year in office devoid of substantive achievement, Washington insiders say the president must show he is ready to fight, to get down and dirty, to drop his professorial aloofness and get publicly passionate and angry about the things he believes in.
My blackness--a term that I've always found to be devoid of substantive meaning--it seems is under siege.
Although many considered Miller's interactions with the press corps on Wednesday to be problematic and devoid of substantive responses, Fox News' Sean Hannity and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders seemed quite pleased with his behavior.
