Sentence examples for without any substantive from inspiring English sources

August being a perennially slow news month, news reports like this proliferate without any substantive competitors, and they make the world seem much scarier than it is.

Late 14th-century French secular music virtually lost itself in rhythmic complexities without any substantive changes in the basic compositional approach, which continued to favour relatively brief three-part settings of lyrical poetry.

Some nuclear monitor experts speculated at the time that Iran had sought to mollify Mr. Amano as part of an effort to set a positive tone at the nuclear talks, which concluded without any substantive progress.

When judicial secrecy is coupled with a one-sided presentation of the issues, the result is a court whose reach is expanding far beyond its original mandate and without any substantive check.

But by trying to rush through two profoundly flawed bills — first Obamacare repeal, then this tax bill — without any substantive hearings or efforts to involve Democrats, that image has evaporated.

Patrick Adenauer, grandson of postwar Germany's first chancellor and head of the Association of Family Enterprise — Christian Democrat roots don't go deeper — told Handelsblatt, the newspaper: "The German reactions to the events in Libya and Japan appear hysterical on one hand, and on the other without any substantive basis".

Sitting in traditional white robes around a long conference room table under a towering portrait of a young Muammar el-Qaddafi, all talked about their desire to reconcile the warring factions of the country, without mentioning any substantive disagreements.

For nearly three decades, R. Kelly has been dogged by allegations of sexual abuse without facing any substantive consequences.

Navalny also suggested, without providing any substantive proof, that during the August, 2016 trip, the two men may have discussed the then ongoing U.S. presidential election campaign.

In Only You, Dick Daring!, his humorous yet damning account of the five and a half months he spent trying to make a show with CBS for the 1963 64 season based on an idea of Aubrey's about a county agent, writer Merle Miller described how Aubrey would simply walk out of meetings without offering any substantive comments on Miller's program and the nineteen rewrites he did of the pilot episode.

These could cause endless delay without there being any substantive basis for the claims of improper decision making," he said.