In the twentieth century, however, things began to shift, and some first ladies began to dig in to more substantial issues than menus and flower arrangements.
Often, these works would be used to distract us from more substantial issues, such as exactly where this money was coming from and where it was going.
"That frees up government resources to address more substantial issues" like the recent commission action against Toysmart, a bankrupt company that tried to sell its mailing list data -- including information about children -- despite longstanding promises to keep such information private.
It meant that the debate got stuck in the symptomatic arguments about morality rather than the more substantial issues of how secularisation deals with the persistence of a God who makes moral demands on public life.
I think that there are probably more substantial issues involved here in relation to the disclosure of these photographs and texts involving the confidential complainant that of course allege that Jamie Briggs behaved in a way that certainly made her feel uncomfortable in a Hong Kong bar," she said.
On the negative side, it resulted in a rather drastic delisting of the more substantial issues from the agenda of bioethical discourse.
Some of the committee's members even acknowledged more substantial issues — anti-competitive behavior, Google's position on China — before skipping back to the Republican-led committee's agreed-upon throughline.
He said indirect talks on more substantial issues would begin in Cairo within a month.
Relations with the United States is a much more substantial, real issue, but it's more difficult to give that as your explanation".
All parties to the debate over the new Supreme Court nominee would do well to eschew superficial evidence and epithets in favor of more substantial jurisprudential issues.
