Sentence examples for substantive serious from inspiring English sources

He could have decided to make a substantive, serious run for the Presidency.

"I'm a substantive, serious person" who has "good sense on how to turn the economy around" as president.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is acknowledging "misspeaking" occasionally, including wrongly claiming that actor John Wayne was from her Waterloo, Iowa hometown, but says she's "a substantive, serious person" who would be a good president.

China recently joined Australia, Germany, Italy and Spain and other countries in instituting substantive serious measures to ensure that their food is adequately fortified and that micronutrient supplements are provided to pregnant women.

An artist who has been as substantive and serious as Ms. Upshaw should be able to do anything she wants.

But he insisted on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that "substantive and serious changes" would be examined.

The issues were substantive but serious, in contrast with so many of the year's other debates, which have been marked by partisan posturing.

"The talks today were substantive and serious and we covered quite a number of issues," US envoy Glyn Davies said after meeting his counterpart Kim Kye Gwan at the North Korean embassy, and then at the US embassy.

While a chorus of discontent has swelled recently about the fairness of the fund, Cantor's report represents the most substantive and serious challenge yet to the basic rules underlying the fund.

He is unwilling to write off the possibility that China's new leaders will embark upon substantive and serious reforms.

Our worries should be less about how we get them to read the text, and more about teaching that is passionate, substantive and serious, a classroom atmosphere of mutual respect and expectation in which information is exchanged among adults.