Sentence examples for like substantive from inspiring English sources

Led by Pelosi, they repeated their same unpersuasive arguments for universal coverage, recycled the same hollow CBO numbers as a crutch and too often resorted to the same partisan defenses in responding to what sounded like substantive Republican criticisms.

Throughout the coverage, one catches a whiff of what seems like substantive pushback on this power grab, but it largely amounts to a facsimile of journalistic diligence.

"He liked how substantive Frank Pallone was.

And there was no avoiding the melancholy thought of how little chance there is of his successor's ever achieving a like degree of substantive mastery.

"I'd like to have substantive, bi-partisan dialogue.

Does that seem like a substantive beginning to you?

Mr. Durbin shook his hand as he came onto the floor, other senators said hello, and Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, pulled him aside for what looked like a substantive conversation, though Mr. Reid later made light of it.

This looks like a substantive empirical question.

But it seems clear from Bentham's and James Mill's worries about the conflict between ruler's interests and the interest of the ruled that they intend something like the substantive psychological thesis.

Since the data for historicist theories consists of matters of acceptance and rejection at the community level, historicists must provide more information here in order to satisfactorily apply their theories to anything like a substantive part of the historical record.

Mr. Medvedev suggested that Russia would like to see more substantive change — including an end to such an oversize role for the dollar.