Sentence examples for substantive session from inspiring English sources

And Mr. Arafat said, although without great enthusiasm, that he was open to a substantive session with Mr. Barak if the groundwork was fully prepared.

Statement to the first substantive session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) (Nairobi, Kenya, 6-31 August 1990).

* See the Report of the Preparatory Committee on its First Substantive Session, (A 55/43 (Part II)) [word | pdf] NGO Caucuses and other events at the First Substantive Session.[word | pdf] Report of official NGO presentations during the First Substantive Session, prepared by the NGO Committee on UNICEF (28 June 2000).

She outlined activities that would take place from 29 January to 2 February at the second substantive session of the Preparatory Committee.

The first was in February 2000 (an organizational meeting); the second in early June 2000 (this was the first substantive session); the third in January 2001 (also substantive).

New York, 29 January 2001 Mr. President of the General Assembly, Madame Chair, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen: This Second Substantive Session of the Preparatory Committee is opening at a crucially important juncture for the world's children - and their right to grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity.

His trial is to open with a procedural hearing, set for Feb. 17, during which more substantive sessions, involving witnesses and evidence, are expected to be scheduled.

Harrad said that there had been one substantive bargaining session since, and that it resulted in unreasonable demands from Cablevision.

The issue arose this week as the White House tried to turn what was supposed to be a largely symbolic meeting with Mr. Mori into a substantive economic session.

At a meeting of security officials at the Kremlin — the sort of event that is more a show for the Russian state media than a substantive policy session — Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the Federal Security Service (F.S.B ., told Putin that an improvised explosive device equivalent to a kilogram of T.N.T. was to blame.

They are due in court in January for a procedural hearing, followed by substantive court sessions later in the year.