Sentence examples for in its substance from inspiring English sources

I do not feel the sublime when I look at a city, however impressive it might be in proportion and shadow, for the reason that a city is designed, in its substance it has been formally determined, and it has been named already by the fact of its creation.

It is conservative in its substance and operation.

When man's intellect reaches its extreme perfection, it comes close in its substance to the substance of this active intellect.

To trade professionals, it was an odd move — not in its substance, but in its optics.

Although it has the appearance of a finished or official document, this chart seems, in its substance, to be either preliminary or generic, for it does not provide names for many of the offices it identifies.

That conclusion is exaggerated both in its substance and in its significance.

The league placed Griese in its substance-abuse program and will require him to submit to testing for two seasons.

So on Thursday the N.F.L. celebrated what it called a huge step forward in the league's drug-testing regimen: the inclusion of blood testing for human growth hormone in its substance-abuse program, which is part of the new collective bargaining agreement.

Instead he tries, rather feebly, to make the tokens of political significance stand in for its substance.

TransAlta's Ottawa power supply agreement is interesting in terms of its substance, in addition to its timing.

The Greek Concept of Justice: From its Shadow in Homer to its Substance in Plato.