Sentence examples for substantive case from inspiring English sources

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substantive case

noun

A case of second objects, being a derivation of the comparative case but intended for larger, more substantial objects, and used to join or combine one thing with another. It corresponds roughly to a variation of the accusative case: I understood him (him in the substantive case rather than the accusative, since no action is performed on the object). Languages that use the substantive case include Chechen and Ingush.

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The substantive case will be decided at a later date.

But he also needs to make a more substantive case for giving him a second term.

McCain can make the substantive case for his broadly centrist conservatism.

WASHINGTON — The substantive case against gay marriage collapsed in the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

The lord chief justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, is due to hear the substantive case in the autumn.

Liberals have long complained that the right overwhelms them with personal attacks and vicious allegations, while the left tries, naïvely, to make a more noble and substantive case.

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"Ms. Mitsos sometimes addressed the court on the record to advocate positions in substantive cases on which respondent had to pass judgment," the report said.

Mr. Dann said in a conference call with reporters that Mr. Charles's report was littered with innuendo and did not document any substantive cases in which he had broken the law.

Only one substantive case-control study of sporadic cryptosporidiosis in the immune-competent population has been conducted in an industrialized nation (6).

"EFSA has provided a strong, substantive and scientific case for the suspension," a commission spokesman said.

Without any objection (because I wasn't allowed a hearing), the appellate court waived consideration of the substantive questions my case raised – and upheld the contempt charge, on the grounds that I hadn't disputed it in court.

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