Sentence examples for substantive happens from inspiring English sources

If something substantive happens, we'll let you know".

"It's going to be 10 years of talk" before anything substantive happens, Mr. Slome predicted.

Given the current state of partisan polarization the only time anything truly substantive happens is when a single party controls both the Presidency and Congress, including a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

I wouldn't put my money on anything substantive happening, on current trends, by 2015 either.

And thus, when the hard disks were ceremonially crunched, nothing substantive happened in the editor's view.

Little substantive will happen until 2020, while clear deadlines for specific targets are generally absent.

But taxpayers should not hold their breath for anything substantive to happen.

For obvious reasons, nothing substantive can happen until this is taken care of.

Since that rarely happens, substantive problems are rarely addressed or resolved.

"With for-profit education there is no substantive regulation of what happens in the classroom," Mr. Nassirian says.

He will assure us that the NRA will take substantive steps to ensure that something like this never happens again -- to his kids or your kids.