'substantive power' is a valid phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a person or body of people with an official capacity for decision-making or influence over an organization or group. For example, you could say: "The board of directors is the substantive power in this organization and can make decisions that affect everyone involved."
Instead, she concluded, the framers did not see the Constitution's vesting of the nation's "executive power" solely in the president as a grant of any substantive power.
The military that has ruled Myanmar since 1962 and the current junta -- in power since 1988 -- have no intention of giving away or sharing any substantive power.
Under questioning from senators on Thursday, the deputy Treasury secretary, Neal S. Wolin, acknowledged that regulators would not have substantive power to write rules governing a vast array of consumer loans until a permanent director of the bureau is in place and until July 21 , 2011 when responsibilities from seven other federal agencies are transferred to the new bureau.
The treaty required no change to US law; it deeds no substantive power to United Nations agencies; the expert committee created by the convention is charged only with reviewing reports from member nations and issuing recommendations to improve access and rights for the disabled.
However, the descriptive institutional upgrade does not necessarily mean substantive power expansion.
Egypt's vulnerable economy precludes any substantive power projection into the region, which in any case is now populated with states comparatively much more powerful than they were in Nasser's era.
An advisory council of Iraqis with no substantive powers was the only proposal on the table other than complete American control.
Alexander Hamilton first made clear that the president's right to fire his officers and his substantive powers over foreign affairs and national security all flow from the same constitutional source.
WASHINGTON — As part of an effort to save a financial regulation bill, the Obama administration is prepared to agree that an existing agency, rather than a new agency, could take responsibility for consumer protections as long as the regulators have substantive powers.
It argues that while the country appears to have a strong institutional design for public participation, there is a decisively low level of institutionalization of actual participatory processes that could not achieve substantive autonomy from power structures.
When the ineffable and ephemeral engage with the material and tangible, beauty is revealed to be not a supplement to our experience, but a substantive source of power in its own right.
