Sentence examples for substantive ties from inspiring English sources

We hope to develop substantive ties with the global media industry," Prof Hopwood added.

In the interviews, Mr. Hussein described Osama bin Laden as a "zealot" and denied that Iraq had any substantive ties to Al Qaeda.

Egemen Bagis, Turkey's minister for European affairs, said in an interview that the charity and the Justice and Development Party, called the AK Party, had no substantive ties, even if people in politics often became involved in charitable groups.

Some intelligence officials feared that individual documents, translated and interpreted by amateurs, would be used out of context to second-guess the intelligence agencies' view that Mr. Hussein did not have unconventional weapons or substantive ties to Al Qaeda.

Although Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to India turned out to be a bit of damp squib, Mr Modi's government, according to Mr Pant, is "trying to increase its scope for diplomatic manoeuvring vis-à-vis China by building substantive ties with Japan, Vietnam and US".

But it concluded that Mateen's ties to Moner Abu-Salha were "minimal" and did not represent a substantive link, Hopper said.

Dr. Cornel West: All talk about race that is serious and substantive is tied to how we expand the possibilities for democratic practice.

For example, a claim that 'there are no substantive a priori ties between the concept of pain and the concept of C-fiber stimulation' has been backed up by the point that 'it is in principle possible to master either of these concepts fully without having mastered the other' (Hill 1997, 76).

Wilson largely echoed the prevalent genocentric bias in his Sociobiology, but now tied to substantive field studies (especially on insects).

In sum: Plato's suggestion is that rhetoric and sophistry are tied to substantive theses about the irrelevance of moral truth to the happy life; about the conventionality or relativity of morals; and about the irrelevance of the sort of inquiry into the truth of the matter (as distinguished from opinions or the results of polls) upon which Socrates keeps insisting.

For example, the report recommends that states target occupational regulations to closely tie the substantive requirements (like education and experience) with public health and safety concerns.