Sentence examples for substantive defeat from inspiring English sources
But it may prove to be a substantive defeat for the detainees themselves.
On that view, permitting Ba Odah's challenge to his detention to go unanswered would both represent a substantive defeat and would encourage intensification of hunger strikes.
Iran, Hezbollah, the Iraqi Shiite militias, the Syrian army and the Houthis will seek to inflict a substantive defeat on any re-launch of inflamed Sunni jihadism in their respective arenas.
And his constitutional approach was misguided, giving the conservative justices an out: In defeat, they did not have to confront the substantive case for same-sex marriage.
Should the bill fall victim to the complex political, procedural and substantive fights raging around health care, it would be a stinging defeat for him, his president and his party — all while he faces a tough re-election fight at home.
But it would also be rebellion on a much more substantive issue, in the knowledge that the government would be defeated.
The defeat of bipartisan backers may be more of a symbolic loss than a substantive one.
But Mr Obama has chosen this moment to tackle a collection of problems, such as health care and environmental regulation, that have defeated much less overburdened administrations.The administration advances two justifications for this, one substantive (you can't fix America's economy without also dealing with its long-term problems) and one political ("Never waste a good crisis").
If the impetus was to defeat the chances of a second Obama administration, what has happened instead is the defeat of any substantive economic mobility for the foreseeable future.
There are substantive issues.
