Sentence examples for substantive victory from inspiring English sources

While we feel this is a substantive victory, the revised royalties are quite high – still much higher than any other form of radio.

"That's not a very substantive victory," he told HuffPost.

That's not much of a substantive victory, but it is a major symbolic victory.

And that's why a public option is critical if Democrats want a real, substantive victory for health care, rather than merely a shallow political victory.

As he wrote, "People who seek social change will, in the absence of real substantive victories, often seize upon stylistic substitutes".

With healthcare reform, the lynchpin of the Republican agenda, delayed and facing uncertain future in the Senate, a number of Republican lawmakers are now clearly fretting that they could soon have to face their constituents with no substantive victories under their belts.

Republicans, acknowledging that there were few substantive policy victories to claim, said they believed that it was worth it to avoid a protracted fight over benefits that together touch the lives of nearly every American.

The latter would surely have secured him an equally impressive foreign policy victory and substantive legacy.

The idea, advocates say, is to call the governor's bluff, to prevent him from winning what they call a rhetorical victory without delivering substantive reform.

Greece's finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, claimed victory, insisting there was "no substantive difference" between the deal and a Greek compromise text that had been dismissed by Germany's finance ministry as a Trojan horse for Athens to throw off austerity.

Relative success tells us nothing of interest -- unless, again, your goal isn't substantive excellence but the right to claim victory.