Sentence examples for were insubstantial from inspiring English sources

The dissenters said nearly all the objections raised by Mr. Bush were insubstantial.

Here, the dens were insubstantial constructions made in the boys' down-time.

He provided the dynamos, generators and power plants without which the bulbs were insubstantial baubles, and lit up lower Manhattan with them.

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat former deputy prime minister, appeared on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday making the case for staying in the EU but saying that parts of Cameron's renegotiation were insubstantial.

One set of discussions revolves around the issue of whether the monarchy's efforts at reform were sufficient; whereas some historians believe that the ancien régime almost succeeded, first in the 1770s and once again in the early 1780s, others argue more pessimistically that the efforts of the monarchy were insubstantial.

He describes their poor reception at the largely forgotten Weeley festival as evidence that Bolan's voice was "clearly inadequate" and T Rex as a band were "insubstantial", as if this overrode the 10 weeks they spent at No 1 with "Hot Love" and the deathless "Get It On".

Money is insubstantial now.

This difference, however, is insubstantial.

But my world is insubstantial.

The match itself was insubstantial.

All too often, such claims are insubstantial.