Sentence examples for substantive on from inspiring English sources

So the issue here really has to do with where do they want to take Russia -- it's substantive on a policy front.

Israel will refrain from provocations of the Ramat Shlomo kind (those planned 1,600 housing units in East Jerusalem) and will promise to get substantive, on borders above all.

Kerry's long speech, which Kurtzer called "the most substantive" on the subject ever given by an American at the highest level, is worth reading for its clarity, fairness, context, and reasonable sense of foreboding.

The media hosts of the fourth Republican presidential debate, Fox Business and the Wall Street Journal, promised that it would be the most substantive on the issues that Americans cared about.

They had a richly flavored, crisp-but-giving exterior (attribute that to the animal fat and frying to order) and were fluffy but substantive on the inside (thanks to the Bintje varietal and the Belgian fry sweet spot between shoestring and steak varieties).

This is a game-changer, of a sort: Romney has been running a cautious, content-free campaign, and picking Ryan will effectively force him to become much more substantive on policy, while giving the country the clearest possible choice heading into November.

Links represent instances when senators have voted similarly on substantive legislation on at least 100 occasions during the same congressional session.

"We think this has been rushed, and that is why we do not support it, neither on substantive nor on the grounds of timing," State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said.

But here Mr. Lhota is on firmer footing, focusing on a substantive issue on which the candidates have real differences.

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

He was promoted to the brevet rank of colonel on 1 July 1937 and substantive rank on 13 October 1939.