Sentence examples for substantive meeting from inspiring English sources

"It was a very productive, substantive meeting.

But she has snubbed some early supporters, among them the financier George Soros, ignoring his pleas for a substantive meeting on the economy with the president.

Assistant United States Attorney Jeffrey Nedrow said that meeting in 2006 was not a substantive meeting and dealt mainly with Ting explaining that he could not disclose information to them because of doctor-patient confidentiality.

Both Japan and America, its protector, have long called for China to accept a hotline to Japan.As for the two countries' leaders, even a perfunctory handshake in Beijing would be something, while a substantive meeting would be best of all.

Sources said the UK had made it very clear that Cameron wanted a substantive meeting with Rajapaksa, and officials are confident that he will get one, but the Sri Lankan side had not agreed to it.

And while Mrs. Clinton also struck a conciliatory note toward Iran last week, Mr. Obama's top aides have yet to sit down for a substantive meeting on Iran, administration officials said.

"There were very few substantive meetings in Philadelphia.

When a reporter remarked that some Democrats had expressed a desire for more substantive meetings, the governor-elect was unable to resist his most famous movie line.

Because of the inherent risks, however, post procedures should permit arranging substantive meetings outside post only in exceptional circumstances and only after approval of the COM based on the recommendations of the RSO and GRPO.

Instead of painting lukewarm concessions as major breakthroughs and going on and on about "warm substantive" meetings, officials were treating a potentially major breakthrough as if it were a suspicious package.

Woods said Urban Commons has been holding substantive meetings with city officials and the Queen Mary Land Development Task Force and hopes to have a master plan for the city's approval within a year.