Most substantive discussion takes place before the congress, in the preparation period, among a group of top party leaders.
Substantive change takes time and these suggestions will not immediately bring clear progress in the quest for a more perfect union and a more peaceful world.
Most of the justices' questions dealt with the issue of how to read the law correctly, but Roberts, in his single substantive question, took a different tack.
Thus far, there has been no substantive action taken against the Taliban leadership in Baluchistan Province, south of the Pashtun-dominated areas of Afghanistan.
Now researchers are starting to look for ways to engage contributors in more substantive ways, taking advantage of what the Internet pundit Clay Shirky calls the "cognitive surplus" of online brainpower.
There was a brief, partial reunion in the late 1990s, and then, a couple of years ago, a more substantive one took shape, comprising all four original members, plus a few additional ones.
In fact, according to the Boston Globe, Obama has presided over appointment hearings, but nothing more substantive: he took over the subcommittee just as the Presidential campaign began, and all the candidates have been AWOL since then.
TWO well-known agencies based in New York are reorganizing in ways that are indicative of the substantive shifts taking place along Madison Avenue to try matching the pace of change in cyberspace and at client companies.
This idea has played some role in the debate over the embedding problem insofar as some of the proposals have been inconsistent with substantive positions taken in the debate about the possibility of moral dilemmas.
