Sentence examples for substantive ground from inspiring English sources

Since fully automatic weapons are already illegal, it wasn't giving up any substantive ground, and it was trying to prevent an open political debate in areas where it knows it is vulnerable.

While the candidates broke little new substantive ground, Mr. Gore seemed much less preachy and Mr. Bush seemed less perplexed when confronted with detailed queries on foreign policy, speaking with apparent ease about past crises in Nigeria, Haiti and the Balkans.

The panel also cited more substantive grounds.

By all means let's debunk the claims on substantive grounds, which Mike Konczal does very well.

And so, they say, reintroducing constitutional amendments that were never nullified on substantive grounds is no offense against the Constitutional Court.

The trouble is that it's hard to give this issue anything like the amount of coverage it deserves on substantive grounds without repeating oneself.

The bankruptcy laws of the various nations differ materially as to the definition of the substantive grounds for the institution of insolvency proceedings, especially those initiated by creditors.

Although the policeman had not identified himself, there were no substantive grounds for the reporter to doubt that he was representing the complainant.

He lobbied for it right up until the final vote, arguing that he needed it both on substantive grounds and to demonstrate American solidarity to foreign leaders.

The Constitutional Court struck this system of church registration twice – once on procedural grounds in December 2011 (in Decision 164/2011 (XII. 20)) and again on substantive grounds in February 2013 (in Decision 6/2013 (III. 1)).

The Fourth Amendment, which took away the Court's power to review constitutional amendments on substantive grounds, passed when the government had placed only seven of the 15 judges on the Constitutional Court.