Sentence examples for the substantive thing from inspiring English sources

"What's the substantive thing Vancouver has to offer other than its nice mountains and vastly overpriced real estate?" Professor Stewart asked.

And there's the substantive thing; there never was really a stand-alone huge jobs program... It's almost as if he went from the stimulus to the year-long health care debate marathon, and then to the Republican-turf of deficit reduction without ever having that big jobs push in a time of bruising unemployment.

Liz Mair, a well known right-of-center libertarian blogger, says Weigel is her friend and points out that many (maybe all) of the substantive things Weigel said about right-wingers in the Journolist emails are inarguably true.

Trump's promise came about halfway into the State of the Union speech, and it was the most substantive thing he had to say on health care all night.

Nearly the only substantive thing governments agreed in Rio was to develop "Sustainable Development Goals" to replace the Millennium Development Goals due to expire in 2015.

RUN, LOOK, RUN The first substantive thing I'll do is go for a run.

Walker defended Christie during his Chatham House talk, saying he was treated unfairly by journalists: "It probably wasn't the most substantive thing that he said while he was out here, but for whatever reason that was the lead... It's another example of where [the media] go to whatever is the most glaring headline, and not the substance".

Edward's chief adviser is Lord Warwick, and James Frain's portrayal of him is one of the more substantive things about the series.

"The executive orders are the only substantive things that he's accomplished," Chafe said, adding that even those have not been particularly substantial.

Although it didn't garner many headlines, it was probably the most important and substantive thing to come out of her speech.

He said the material was spoken of within the department at the time, but it was "not a very substantive thing at all".