Sentence examples for substantive back from inspiring English sources

But it can't bring anything substantive back, because anything substantive is subject to the rigors of deconstruction all over again.

"We don't need 100,000 troops," Mr. Huntsman said, clearly reveling in having a substantive back and forth with the front-runner.

But Reid, he says, has not allowed any substantive back and forth.

February 26 2011 Feb. 26 at 8: The hall presents two substantive, back-to-back concerts this week.

In the same vein, when Russia began to use its domination of the European energy supply as a lever of political pressure, the chancellor's instinct was to offer no substantive backing to attempts within the European Union to set up a single community approach to confront monopoly suppliers.

He also appeared irritable as discussions wandered off substantive arguments back to all-too-familiar talking points.

To Tibetans brought up in the Communist system — where a politician's physical proximity to the leadership on the evening news indicates to the public that he is in favor — it appeared that the world's most powerful government was offering substantive political backing to the Dalai Lama.

So will the Trump administration ever do anything substantive to bring back mining and manufacturing jobs?

"We're at a rather decisive point where we either move onto substantive negotiations or back to more years of fruitless discussion," Mr. McCarthy said.

Furthermore, the last time the results of a US presidential election were disputed without substantive grounds was back in 1860 when the Southern states seceded from the union in opposition to a Lincoln presidency; a move that ultimately triggered the Civil War.

Another doubt about country rankings is that headline-grabbing hype may overshadow the substantive analysis that backs up such rankings.A tricky challenge for the cross-country comparisons is to decide how to weigh each indicator.