Sentence examples for substance or a from inspiring English sources

"They don't know whether it is a single substance or a mixture".

Contact dermatitis results from contact of the skin with an irritating substance or a substance to which the person is allergic.

It will also not describe an incident in much more detail than to say that it was caused by a police investigation or by a "suspicious substance" or a "suspicious package".

Highly abusive devices are defined as those that rely on techniques that the courts have already found to be shams and which lack economic substance or a business purpose other than evading taxes.

We measure and organize time as never before, and we worry about not "losing" or "wasting" time, as though time was a finite substance or a container into which we should try to stuff as many good experiences as possible.

Where a given substance or a combination of substances undergoes two or more simultaneous reactions that yield different products, the distribution of products may be influenced by the use of a catalyst that selectively accelerates one reaction relative to the other(s).

He viewed God not as a substance or an absolute but as the moral order itself, capable of limitless perfection.

Movement (and time, which measures it) is therefore not an accident of substance or an accompaniment of some of its accidents.

Melissa Clarke, a district judge who sits at the bankruptcy court in the central London county court, said recently that claims needed to be scrutinised to see whether people switched their centre based on "substance" or an "illusion".

From traditional metaphysics Bolzano adopts the doctrine that everything real is either a substance or an adherence (cf. Schnieder 2002).

Criticizing the neo-Platonic approach of Solomon ibn Gabirol, who held that substance and accident are relative terms, so that the selfsame thing can be a substance in one respect and an accident in another, he insists that substance and accident are absolute terms and that a thing is either a substance or an accident, but not both.