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The flurry of exchanges among presidential candidates, according to interviews with lawmakers in both parties, is obscuring efforts to reach a substantive legislative compromise on Capitol Hill.
International action on climate change has so far been characterised by a "pathetic lack of urgency", he says, and governments must make amends for failing to reach a substantive deal at Copenhagen.
The meeting's timing appeared increasingly uncertain on Wednesday, with continuing clashes in the Palestinian territories and steps by Israel that Mr. Abbas's spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said were "hindering the endeavor to reach a substantive document to go to the conference".
At a meeting in London on Friday and Saturday, finance ministers of the G-20 Group of nations pledged to keep economic stimulus measures in place but failed to reach a substantive agreement on banker bonuses.
The Paris Club has begun discussing Iraq's debt, but a French official said this week that the talks were only in the earliest phases, and that they had not reached a substantive level.
But CNet's News.com cited another source close to Microsoft's Yahoo buyout efforts, who cautioned Thursday that if the talks had reached a substantive level, Microsoft would have disclosed it publicly.
In some situations the impacted teeth, although presenting symptoms, could not be clearly visualized in the oral cavity making radiological examination the only means of reaching a substantive diagnosis and planning of appropriate management.
But we've failed to reach a consensus on any substantive initiative to address the security threats and the challenges to our economic growth and development that we share.
The summit that was supposed to solve this part of the equation ended with a disappointing outcome in Addis Ababa last July, and this week the follow-up negotiations produced a new low as governments failed to reach any substantive agreement.
But the new lawsuit may face other procedural impediments before it would reach any substantive ruling on whether the strikes violated the Constitution — or even a public acknowledgment that the United States government did carry them out and an explanation of the evidence and decision-making behind them.
After a few early meetings, Iraqi members of parliament were unable to reach a consensus, and in some cases, even a quorum, on substantive issues relating to the current crisis in the country.
