Sentence examples for in form and in substance from inspiring English sources

Yet, even after the last two centuries have brought so many changes in society, it remains as a model in many countries, because of its qualities in form and in substance.

In the talks, marked with frankness and devoted essentially to the study of the Fez plan, the Moroccan sovereign and the Israeli Prime Minister analyzed in depth the situation in the Middle East and the conditions in form and in substance likely to contribute efficiently to the establishment of peace in this region.

Its political power is considerable, both in form and in substance.

In form, and in substance, it emanates from them.

For example, Commissioner, the opinion of your institution's legal service, and I quote: 'agrees that the exercise of external Community competence by the Member States is legally possible in exceptional circumstances and under specific conditions, both in form and in substance'.

"The department has a lot of rules on the book that aren't being followed or are being followed in form and not in substance," he said.

Judge Blair made the certificate in form and substance in conformity with the statute, and upon the receipt of that, a warrant was duly issued for the surrender of the appellant to the agents of the Italian government.

"Although I find that the trial court erred in form and substance in granting defendant's motion for directed verdict, we are barred from reviewing that decision," Talbot wrote.

Despite severe ethnic animosities, glaring inequalities, rampant corruption and nepotism, administrative narcolepsy, and a military-dominated polity that is democratic more in form than in substance, the country and its inhabitants keep muddling through, from one day to the next.

Myanmar's new system will resemble a democracy more in form than in substance, analysts say, but with the possibility of more debate and inclusiveness than under the junta's top-down rule.

The defect here is not in form, but in substance.