Sentence examples for substantive claim from inspiring English sources

Let me begin with my first substantive claim: all drug patents, whether valid or not, are socially useful.

A more substantive claim against them may be that they approved Fastow's partnership deals so that they could deceive investors and cover up Enron's disastrous course.

And some of their arguments — for instance, "party nominations and the presidency itself usually are won by the candidate with the most impressive substantive claim on the job" — are contradicted by their own analysis of recent events.

This substitution, unfortunately, led to countless (and continuing) debates about whether the thesis of natural selection is a substantive claim about the real world or simply a tautology (a statement, such as "All bachelors are unmarried," that is true by virtue of its form or the meaning of its terms).

While making irrelevant remarks about the sanitary conditions in the courtroom, your editorial did not explain what substantive claim it had against the verdict, which, incidentally, can still be overturned on appeal and was reached after months of deliberations and testimony with all guarantees for the defendant to present his defense.

Moreover, that conferral of jurisdiction was combined, in Hans, with a substantive claim under the Contracts Clause of the Constitution itself, which one would think to have greater, rather than lesser, abrogative force than a substantive statute enacted pursuant to the Commerce Clause.

I believe that these tactics are not really about making substantive claims, but rather play the role of silencing.

But it has become apparent that very few substantive claims (even in mathematics) can be established by valid arguments from totally obvious premises.

Based on intertwined theoretical and substantive claims, this Article opens an inquiry into the assertive legalism of developing nations in the new regional economic order.

Similarly, this article will not attempt a detailed discussion of the panoply of substantive claims that one can raise in post-conviction proceedings.

Now, of course the Times Opinion section as a whole can provide daily models of "logical arguments based on substantive claims," whether through the Editorial page, Op-Ed columnists, Letters to the Editor or even the collection of Opinion videos.