Sentence examples for substantive as a from inspiring English sources

Such rhetoric is as substantive as a loud fart.

That must give many reasonable leaders pause, as must the farcical pageantry of the present-day campaign, including the sound-bite vacuity of even a ritual as supposedly substantive as a debate.

Jonathan Alter, whose got a new insidery chronicling of Beltway grabassery that will probably be about as substantive as a fart wrapped in a doily.

To conclude that a damage award is so excessive as to violate due process, the court must first conclude that the Constitution's due process guarantee includes a substantive as well as a merely procedural component.

For this reason, at all stages of the analysis, the structure of the model was reviewed from a substantive as well as a statistical viewpoint.

But the Palestinians want the discussions to be as substantive as possible, an approach Mrs. Clinton demanded in her call to Mr. Netanyahu on Friday.

He added: "His was a substantive speech, as far as I was concerned.

[Sign images are from the Manual of Traffic Signs, by Richard C. Moeur.] 4. This is not a substantive claim as long as we keep in mind the difference between linguistic understanding and utterance understanding.

Congruent with these arguments, he in 1988 accepted without issue a substantive induction as a Companion of the Order of Australia.

"Cash for grades" as well as "bonuses for numbers" do not promote substantive learning, as a number of studies have shown.

We defined substantive criticism as a problem that could invalidate the research or reduce its reliability.