Sentence examples similar to substantive defect from inspiring English sources

In a statement, William E. Kennard, the F.C.C.'s chairman, alluded to the timing concerns but also seemed to indicate that the Massachusetts application still had some substantive defects.

Although ruling that the councils had not breached the 1964 Public Libraries and Museums Act, and had not rushed through a consultation process on the closures, McKenna did believe they had failed to take account of their equality duties – an omission which he said amounted to "a substantive … defect".

Since the function of Hedgehog signaling in the neocortex appears to be the regulation of the size of stem/progenitor pool and loss of function studies lead to substantive patterning defects.

You are seeking to underplay historically powerful social forces like racism and poverty, and reduce them to a substantive definitive character or cultural defect of black communities.

(Meanwhile, rather puzzlingly, leader of Gloucestershire council Mark Hawthorne told Channel 4 News that the case had been lost on "a very small technical point" – a direct contradiction of the judge's own remarks just beforehand, in which he called the breach of equality duties involved "substantive, not merely a technical or procedural defect").

The exact molecular mechanism by which copper becomes deficient in the livers of ob/ob mice is uncertain at present, but could mirror that which causes myocardial copper deficiency and cardiac damage in diabetic cardiomyopathy, where there is substantive evidence that diabetes can evoke regulatory defects in many of the pathways that mediate myocellular copper uptake and distribution [13].

Despite a row over an envoy defecting from the North Korean mission in Berlin, officials in Geneva talk of "substantive" progress.Nevertheless, there is a long way to go.

3) A major result and substantive conclusion of this study, as stated in the abstract, is that "Light cycles, but not restricted feeding treatment, rescued this defect [loss of synchrony of peripheral clocks, between and within tissues, in brain bmal1 deficient mice, BKOs], revealing the dominance of photic entrainment pathways acting via the SCN over nutrient signals".

"Be substantive".

There are substantive issues.

It was substantive.