"in terms of substantive" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is significant or meaningful. For example, "When analyzing the data, we found several important patterns in terms of substantive information."
The epistemic characterization of this solution concept is in terms of "substantive rationality" and common belief that all players are substantively rational (cf. also Vanderschraaf & Sillari 2009: sec. 2.8).
Philosophically, it was pretty major; in terms of substantive policy implications, not so much.
In terms of substantive wider impacts, tech appears benign, though fairly ineffectual.
Two, the denial of citizenship to the global city does not always manifest in terms of substantive rights.
We aren't where we want to be in terms of substantive staff, but most of these vacancies are being filled by temporary staff, therefore they are delivering care".
In terms of substantive success, the paper finds successful petitions reflect female users' priorities more closely than men's, independent of the petition initiator's gender.
It is axiomatic that procedural protections must be examined in terms of the substantive rights at stake.
Instead, drawing on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach, I argue for the superiority of conceptualizing well-being in terms of the substantive freedoms and capabilities people actually have to pursue lives they have reason to value.
"We heard a lot of 'I don't have anything to offer you today in terms of anything substantive that we do or do not support in these rules, and I don't have anything to offer you about the future timeline for when the rules may or may not move forward,' " he said.
"We heard a lot of 'I don't have anything to offer you today in terms of anything substantive that we do or do not support in these rules, and I don't have anything to offer you about the future timeline for when the rules may or may not move forward,' " he said.
In other words administrative review can, in many circumstances, allow the actual decision itself to be reviewed in terms of its substantive content.
