Second, we divert their time, energy, focus, and dollars from matters of substance to matters of their appearance.
When Aquinas discusses the question whether angels can interact with matter he refers to the Aristotelian doctrine of hylomorphism (i.e., the theory that substance consists of matter (hylo-wood, matter) and form (morphè)).
In the same vein but more to the substance of the matter (here is the issue that seems important to me), I actually believe that selection acts to reduce but not eliminate HGT.
With the candidates adequately flicked off, the group turns to the substance of the matter.
Here Milbank is addressing the substance of the matter, and he's saying … what?
The fact that the benefit was given by way of a scholarship does not alter the substance of the matter.
More broadly and with regard to the substance of the matter, Mr. Bollinger's choice of words was unfortunate.
He said: "It is impossible, and I repeat – it is impossible – to return to the whirlwind cycle of negotiations that failed to deal with the substance of the matter and the fundamental question.
Sadly, his explicitly anti-libertarian fearmongering probably remains the more potent populism.Of course, on the substance of the matter, Mr Paul's tweet in response to Mr Christie's comments is correct: Christie worries about the dangers of freedom.
"It is impossible and I repeat — it is impossible — to return to the cycle of negotiations that failed to deal with the substance of the matter and the fundamental question," Mr. Abbas said at the annual session of the General Assembly, reading from a prepared text but visibly enraged.
Pretty much everybody who believes that health care should be a human right, not a commercial commodity, and who makes a serious study of the abstract substance of the matter, concludes that the best solution would be (to borrow Obama's words at the press conference) "what's called a single-payer system, in which everybody is automatically covered".
