Sentence examples for substantive failure from inspiring English sources

"European energy policy has been a substantive failure," says Mr Helm.The Commission says it had to agree on a compromise.

Should the Supreme Court chuck Obamacare, health policy will be back to Square 1, and Obama's presidency will be instantly transformed from a substantive success to a substantive failure.

For those who view the Lochner Court's failing as not institutional but merely stemming from a substantive failure to recognize that economic rights can hinder liberty as well as promote it, sound judicial balancing, even in relation to delicate policy choices, need not portend disaster.

But it's really been a rhetorical and in some ways a substantive failure".

Among the ones he lists are two P.R. disasters (the "Mission Accomplished" banner, and his challenge to insurgents to "bring 'em on"), and two substantive failures: the lack of sufficient troops to impose security at the start, and the "intelligence failure on Iraq's WMD".

Substantive failures include the inability or unwillingness to maintain order, to maintain sound fiscal and monetary policies, and to reduce risks of transaction costs, which we classify as corruption, agency and rent-seeking.

Their substantive failures in those finance positions did not matter.

Under these circumstances investors have continued to support national funding requirements and there have been no substantive bank failures.

The only alternative I can discern is no bill at all — a political, substantive, and humanitarian failure that would reverberate for a generation.

I reject the notion that work on the substantive Report into the failure of HBOS could only commence at the conclusion of this investigation and find it difficult to understand why a Report of such public significance was delayed in preference to proceedings against one individual said to be involved in it.

You are now at Amazon's mercy and have the choice of two routes to take: Never buy/sell on their platform again, or explain your failures, make substantive changes to your operation, and then explain how your changes will make the customers' experience better.