Critics have described subsequent meetings with Mr. Orr's team as more presentational than open to substantial negotiations, saying discussions had barely started when Detroit suddenly filed for Chapter 9 last month.
Land, in her speech, "indicated that her campaign committee has had substantial discussions with Super PACs and requested and obtained their commitment to make expenditures on her behalf," which would violate federal election law, the Democrats' complaint to the FEC said.
Asked if Alibris had made overtures to its competitor, Mr. Manley chose his words carefully: "We've never had substantial discussions with them".
Borders Group has not had substantial discussions regarding a possible sale and was moving forward on efforts to improve its business, Chief Executive George Jones said Thursday.
They have criticized the company for refusing to have "substantial discussions" about the company's spending.
Brian Cashman, the Yankees' general manager, says he has had no substantial discussions with any team since he made a couple of small trades last week.
"The court has certainly talked about deterrence, but the court also has very substantial discussions in all of these opinions about reliability.
But on Monday, diplomats familiar with the Iran file said Iran had begun substantial discussions with I.A.E.A. experts on some issues linked to "weaponization," as part of the agency's investigation of Iran's nuclear activities.
In this paper, we explain our choices for the design requirements and preferred statistical methods for which no evidence is available in the literature or on which the Delphi panel members had substantial discussion.
The SR model has a number of distinctive features that have generated substantial discussion.
