Sentence examples for not a substantive from inspiring English sources

"It was not a substantive change to the law".

"The Republicans are bad for this country" is not a substantive contribution.

Wednesday's program was a welcoming party for patrons, not a substantive musical statement.

It might occur to undecided or swing voters that talk of hope is not a substantive plan.

"This was an informal interaction and there was not a substantive conversation between the two leaders," the official said.

The column as a whole makes some plausible points about the possibility of an Asian-American backlash against the bill's implicit ethnic focus, but that's a political question, not a substantive one.

Mr. Rubin maintained that his role had been misconstrued, saying that Citigoup's executive committee met infrequently and "wasn't a substantive part of the decision-making process".

"I think it's a very hard dialogue with the consumer, face to face, as we have to as a retailer, when in fact there probably isn't a substantive answer," Schultz said.

But Clinton is still not ready to talk – at least not in a substantive way – about what it meant to be the first woman to go so far, yet still fall short, in the race for the 2008 Democratic nomination.

Given the length of the manuscript we chose not to include extensive discussion of subjects were our data could not make a substantive contribution.

And "we have not received a substantive response," Mr. Simon wrote.