Sentence examples for substantial about the from inspiring English sources

There were three thousand lobbyists swarming Capitol Hill, urging Congress not to do anything substantial about the wreckage their clients had made.

I'd never considered writing anything substantial about the Beatles: too many people were already doing it and the magazine, for all its trendiness, had an odd blind spot about pop music.

It's for others to judge whether we manage it, but – alongside the knockabout fun – we're trying to burrow beneath the glib generalisations to unearth something more substantial about the united/divided British state of mind.

Those posthumous works would tell us something as round and substantial about the afterworld as Updike's Rabbit books did about a certain time in a certain place called Pennsylvania.

It's as if her support in itself washes away the errors that they made when in power, and says something substantial about the changes the party must somehow have made in order to regain Duffy's trust – changes that Labour politicians cannot articulate because they have not yet thought of them.

But 23 years on, The Female Eunuch's absence of anything substantial about the importance of abortion rights and access feels more disappointing than ever: stubborn in its inability or unwillingness to anticipate the revolution that would occur some three years later with Roe v Wade.

Indeed, the increase in thresholds was substantial (about 120 % for the identical-pattern condition of Exp. 1).

They listed nine alleged flaws by Merseyside police in their investigation into the death and expressed their "real and substantial concerns about the safety of Gilfoyle's conviction".

(The difference in median fund-raising totals, which reduces the influence of outliers, is just as substantial: about $3 million for the establishment candidates versus about $400,000 for the insurgents).

He said: "If there's that kind of consensus and focus you can do something substantial about some of the deep-rooted issues".

The New Yorker has previously published two substantial articles about the Mormon religion.