Sentence examples for discussed substantive from inspiring English sources

The candidates discussed substantive issues.

"They did not discuss substantive issues".

For their part, the Israelis have concluded there is no point in discussing substantive security matters until Yasir Arafat is replaced.

In June 1977 she visited seven nations in the Caribbean and Latin America and met with their leaders to discuss substantive matters related to defense and trade.

The summit meeting could still be useful if the leaders used it to begin a serious discussion about the roots of the financial crisis and agree to a series of future meetings to discuss substantive reforms.

Leland, interviewed by telephone as he traveled to Washington, said he tried last week to reword sections of the report to address the dissenting views but could only go so far without another public meeting to discuss substantive objections.

A person close to the talks said yesterday that smaller committees of representatives of the players and the owners have met intermittently throughout the negotiations to discuss substantive issues.

He said politically connected executives would not only be granted audiences with government officials to discuss substantive issues but, in the case of elected officials, would also have the chance to reinforce the idea that Facebook can be a powerful campaign tool.

But it did free them to discuss substantive questions about what is in fact good and right.

In addition getting points for choosing politicians who perform well at the polls, MTV will be scoring on fundraising transparency, frequency of social media engagement, explicitly declaring their stance (which Mitt Romney has gotten in trouble for not doing on tax reform), and discussing substantive political issues.

The goal of this summit: to move governments to action -- to compel them to seriously consider the importance and consequences of climate change, particularly the need to reduce global warming pollution and discuss substantive solutions.