Sentence examples for if it were substantive from inspiring English sources
If it were substantive arguments that really mattered, the F-22 -- and a whole lot more -- never would have gotten out of the Pentagon's incubator for bad but expensive ideas.
"It's simply not true: if it's a substantive firm it can survive".
Media Matters and MoveOn.org have shown us for months how right-wing media, especially Fox Not-Newstartsrts a scurrilous rumor with just such a comment as Hill made and that eventually the either desperate or dumb traditional media begins flogging whatever-it-was as if it was a substantive issue.
The concept will not succeed if it is not backed by substantive action.
But the bill did get a committee markup -- even if it wasn't one where substantive changes were made to the legislation.
Primitivism becomes a more substantive thesis if it is linked to an account of the nature of psychological explanation, or perhaps of psychological explanation as conceived in the neo-nativist tradition.
In the context of the total volume of cases, she said reversals are "marginally higher than the other circuits, but such a teeny-tiny difference from a substantive perspective even if it is statistically significant, people might say that's to be expected when you have such a high volume" of cases.
Still, there's no denying the legitimacy of the conservative argument that the urgency of nonproliferation precludes waiting around for substantive disarmament which, if it's actually happening, seems to be unfolding over a timetable spanning generations.
Some votes were substantive, if nonbinding.
So, as noted in section 1, if there is substantive disagreement between "pro-pornography" feminists and MacKinnon here, it will be about whether there really is any sexually explicit material that is beneficial).
