Sentence examples for on substantive matters from inspiring English sources

On substantive matters of policy, however, this volume tends to rehash well-known debates even as it circumvents important questions.

They said he had been unresistant in medical tests and other procedures but was not cooperating with interrogators on substantive matters.

This paranoid preoccupation has resulted in repetitive accusations and demands that interfere with his ability to stay focused on substantive matters related to his defense...

You begin by acknowledging the pluralism of views on substantive matters and resolve to take them off the political agenda, leaving only those rules and regulations that neither depend on nor impinge on anyone's moral/theological views.

But in our judgment, the A.C.L.U. has been extremely effective in recent years, both on substantive matters — including the novel and important civil liberties issues spawned by 9/11 — and in management of the organization.

"It is Mr. Colbert's view that he is fully capable of speaking to the press on substantive matters related this advisory opinion request," he told The Huffington Post.

To watch a dignified man try to politely move on to substantive matters -- after he'd already given two entire speeches devoted to such a laughably spurious issue -- was to watch Stupidity bullying Common Decency...for eighteen endless minutes.

Comey's statement two days before the election that Clinton has been cleared of wrongdoing in the case of her emails might help refocus voters' attention on the substantive matters on the ballot in this historic election.

On more substantive matters, she says Geithner "had our back" during creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the achievement that catapulted her to the Senate.

But most commentators realize that when someone is hoping to become the president of the United States we should ignore his appearance and focus on more substantive matters.

But I also manage, every day and night, to peel my eyes away from that arena, and focus on more substantive matters.