"substantive help" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You would use it to describe help that is meaningful and substantial. For example, "The volunteers provided substantive help to the family in need."
"They've asked for substantive help: 'Can I take a look at language on Iran?' " Mr. Ross said.
Britain had argued unsuccessfully at an EU meeting in Brussels last week for arming of the "moderate" rebel groups in Syria Londonn is now pressing for substantive help for the opposition at an international summit in Rome this week.
12 August: In a statement to the Wall Street Journal, Neil Heywood's mother, Ann, called on Chinese authorities to offer "substantive" help to her son's family.
The Kemeny Commission did not go on a witch hunt, delivering a report within five months that arguably was of more substantive help to industry than it was of political help to the administration.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.: "We have an absolute crisis in the American auto industry and today's decision to pile on new regulations without any substantive help is a cruel blow to Michigan workers and their families".
In the space of two weeks they do a fly by stop in New Orleans offering very little in substantive help to the poor of that city and then go to New York City to raise money from the same Wall Street executives who are taking obscene bonuses, while apparently making no specific mention of what's to be done for the unemployed and working New Yorkers who are watching their world collapse.
Rather, Mr Rosenzweig said, the government would prefer evidence Mr Assange had given Pte Manning technical help or other substantive aid.
If the gun safety course was substantive, it could help weed out some violent or mentally ill people who now are not detected in background checks, some experts said in interviews.
No moral claim that is plausibly offered as actually accepted by all, or nearly all, people can possibly be substantive enough to help settle on one view rather than another as better justified.
This applies tenfold for brands and companies (who as I said are more than welcome to use their substantive weight to help move progress forward) but who in staking a claim in the fight for marriage equality also seek the reward of brand exposure, social cred and lest we forget, better bottom lines.
Comparing the nursing intervention with the services of a cognitive behavioural therapist during a substantive trial will help establish whether the study's nursing intervention is as effective and acceptable as current evidence-based treatment approaches.
