Sentence examples for sound substantive from inspiring English sources

What distinguishes them from the others in the field is their ability to articulate views that sound substantive enough to command respect but extreme enough to compete with the fantastical dogmas of the outsiders.

It's tough to make 'happy' sound substantive or deep, but Williams transcended all such concerns by ignoring them.

Led by Pelosi, they repeated their same unpersuasive arguments for universal coverage, recycled the same hollow CBO numbers as a crutch and too often resorted to the same partisan defenses in responding to what sounded like substantive Republican criticisms.

Here's how the overview in the Standards document summarizes it: The ability to write logical arguments based on substantive claims, sound reasoning and relevant evidence is a cornerstone of the writing standards, with opinion writing — a basic form of argument — extending down into the earliest grades.

Following exposure to a 10 kHz 118 dB 1/3 octave band sound animals sustained a substantive threshold shift (Table 1).

We hope that this contribution will help others to avoid some of the mistakes that we (and others) made in the past, and that it will promote future substantive and sound studies.

But the role may be more substantive than it sounds.

The very name given to the methodology — substantive due process — sounds like an oxymoron.

In his best-selling 1996 polemic, "On Television," Mr. Bourdieu denounced talk-show commentators as "fast thinkers" who substitute "cultural fast food" -- politically sanitized sound bites and cliches -- for substantive argument.

Sir Christopher Meyer's somewhat manic outburst on the Today programme over our report on press self-regulation has a familiar ring about it: a great deal of sound and fury, but very little substantive content.

But on many substantive issues, his defense sounds more like bureaucratic evasion than a candid evaluation.