Sentence examples for substantive exception from inspiring English sources

IRI posted a comprehensive response to the audit on its Website today, stating that it takes the report seriously but taking "substantive exception" to the findings on the institute's accounting practices.

"I don't remember having any substantive conversation with John Haggerty with the exception of one," the mayor said.

With the important exception of the renationalised railways, substantive commitments were few and far between.

The substantive criteria are almost identical (with the exception of different age limits), but there are slight differences in the procedural criteria (eg, the number of physicians who must be consulted and the necessity of a written request).

The only apparent exceptions last night to the rule of substantive orthodoxy were military spending, abortion, and gays.

They [with wife] must've decided they couldn't do anything for us.Most interestingly, with two or three exceptions, no family members were in any substantive way involved in the direct care of and/or taking any responsibility for the PWD.

With the exception of Mr Clarke, however, none has made any substantive compromise on the issue of Europe, which has brought the party to its knees.

With the exception of linebacker James Farrior, the Jets have not begun substantive contract discussions with any of their free agents or those players who must rework deals for salary-cap purposes.

"I think that in all fairness to Mayor Giuliani, the basic terms of what he agreed to were described to me, with the exception of those two things, which I don't view as really substantive in the grand scheme of things".

The attempt to specify substantive rules of right conduct for all cases founders on the need to make exceptions for different circumstances.

Some of it we're not in at all, I mean, because custom apps, et cetera, there's a substantive amount of that, and we're not in vertical apps by and large, with the exception maybe of health care.