Sentence examples for substantive without from inspiring English sources

How often is it possible to report that the New York Legislature has failed to do anything substantive without becoming an impossible nag?

Host: given sagging poll numbers and a now ingrained style of unrelenting attacks, expect Romney to try to be aggressive without being nasty and substantive without being specific.

"And there will be no substantive progress without comprehensively addressing the issue of migration".

Her group, like other nonprofits, was able to offer training and substantive work without the burden of paying a salary.

The trouble is that it's hard to give this issue anything like the amount of coverage it deserves on substantive grounds without repeating oneself.

Mr. Havel said he welcomes the debate, but hopes it can be a philosophical and substantive one, without violence in the streets.

But the Rev. Aldo Tos, the pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Greenwich Village, said that so far, the cardinal had made substantive changes without consulting the parish priests.

Senate Republicans said they would continue to try to hold regular sessions after Monday, when the legislative session expires, even though they cannot conduct any substantive business without the Democrats' cooperation.

Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, they have been in disarray about how to oppose the president on substantive issues without seeming out of tune with the bipartisan chorus of the times.

At the beginning of the crisis the EOC made some decisions about planning and coordination of evacuations, supplies and shelters; but once the state of emergency was declared it no longer made any substantive decisions without the governor's consent.

For what it is to be an object or property evidently cannot be conveyed merely by ostension, nor by more substantive criteria, without being restrictive in ways that beg the question against various views of what objects or properties there are.