Sentence examples for more substantive role from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Bush did play a more substantive role in putting out one media fire.

But prosecutors said their evidence showed that Monsignor Lynn played an active and more substantive role in decisions.

Only Marge Sherwood, in a more substantive role than the novel allows, has a sufficiently uncluttered spirit to both welcome Ripley and then suspect him.

When he was asked outside the courthouse if his client might have had a more substantive role in the alleged plot, beyond the charges in the indictment, Mr. Marinaccio played down Mr. Ahmedzay's role.

This might be taken to suggest a more substantive role for specification i.e., to provide a methodology for the construction of the artifact.

The main change on this side is Toby Kebbell as the bonobo Koba; he replaces Christopher Gordon and has a much more substantive role as an ideological zealot.

Still upset and needing to say something more substantive about Tyson's role in the fight, Malinowski shouted, "Get him a straitjacket!" Which may not have been the most prudent thing to do when the target of his ire was someone as volatile as Tyson, the former heavyweight champion.

It's obvious that when she no longer needs the script--no longer needs, as she does at one point, to keep packing it on the top of containers she's packing in a van--that she'll likely be giving a far more substantive account of the role.

Questions from Justice Kennedy – and perhaps Kagan and Sotomayor, though maybe not Alito – appear to suggest that the court may finally be ready to embrace that broader, more substantive view of its own role.

But the role may be more substantive than it sounds.

"He is a great team player, and he understands what is going on out there," said Mr. Boehner, who praised Mr. Sessions as bringing in more Republican lawmakers to play a substantive role in the campaign operation.