"The executive orders are the only substantive things that he's accomplished," Chafe said, adding that even those have not been particularly substantial.
He told presenter Hayley Millar: "I think the most substantial thing that I am proud of, and the administration should be, is the establishment of a social contract between the Scottish government and the people of Scotland in extraordinarily tough times.
I mean take Obama and that big meeting he had in Latin America: what becomes the big substantial thing that we talked about is that Obama shook hands with Chavez; he had a smile on his face when he shook hands.
She reflects: "The substantial outward things that happened to people were more mysterious than all the invisible turmoil of the inner life".
When this happens the cosmic text they constitute is misread under the pretext that the world as such is nothing but a system of substantial things, and that any corresponding language is nothing but a system of signs representing those substantial things.
Pretty soon I had a substantial list of things that were bothering me.
"Our client base is looking at things that are very substantial.
Some things tend not to work so well for science - things that rely on substantial written contributions by key experts are a case in point - but even there I tend to keep an open mind, because it may just be a case of finding the right formula.
We are trying to counteract that, in a way, by directing them toward things that are less whim and more substantial".
"There has been a substantial anecdotal flow over the last six to eight weeks of things that felt a little bit better".
