Def Jam's next substantial act, Public Enemy, was altogether more confrontational, stoking the flames of antiwhite and antipolice rhetoric.
The only substantial act of decentralisation by British government in the past two decades has been to local assemblies in Scotland, Wales and London.
Although the veto is sure not to please unions, Stephen J. Acquario, the executive director of the New York State Association of Counties, called it "a substantial act" and said the measure would have amounted to "handcuffing local government officials from Albany".
Her most substantial act as First Lady has been to refile, in New York, a lawsuit against the Mail Online, the parent company of the Daily Mail, for its report, since retracted, that she once worked as an escort.
Google committed a substantial act of charity on the first day of its annual I/O developers' conference in San Francisco this week, giving away a piece of intellectual property acquired just three months ago at a cost of more than $120 million.
It was, first, a substantial act of privatisation, shifting the burden of care from the welfare state to individuals and families, whose estates would be wholly at risk in the case, for instance, of prolonged dementia.
But Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister, when asked on Sunday if the various IRA statements and, indeed, a substantial act of decommissioning had created a context in which Sinn Féin was now a viable partner in an Irish government, said that the republican movement had still not reached that point.
In a more substantial act of modesty, he led the Argentine church in apologising for its failure to take a more robust line against the military dictatorship.There is plenty for a pope to be humble about, critical observers of the Vatican will say.
Second, the technique does not address all outcomes of functions of miRNAs; a substantial number of miRNAs act by silencing the translation machinery and epigenetic modifications.
Of the 189 air toxics listed in the Clean Air Act, a substantial number are important in potentially causing adverse health effects in several organ systems.
