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So the substance of Macron’s economic-policy suggestions is, frankly, confusing.
But, in terms of substance, there was no need for her proposal.
Voters are given their formal right of democratic choice, but are denied its substance.
The legal and political challenges implied are no minor matter: marijuana remains an illicit substance under US federal law and international conventions that America has adopted.
Adding substance – and striking symbolism – to the rhetoric, Obama and Gillard announced the creation of a training base in northern Australia for 2,500 US Marines, a significant new capability within easy reach of both South East Asia and the Indian Ocean.
Determining whether a substance is “dangerous” involves determining not only the material’s toxicity, but the degree to which it will ever come into contact with a living cell.
The company denied that there was any substance to these allegations.
And the candidates’ performances are scrutinized less on the substance of their arguments than on their presentation, body language, facial tics, unguarded sighs, smiles, sneers, and inadvertent eye rolling.
According to America's Public Health Service, about 50% of mental problems reported in the US (other than those related to substance abuse) are accounted for by anxiety disorders, including phobias, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and generalized anxiety.
Beyond that point, the goals of state action – the substance of ministers’ responsibilities – will still be assessed according to values whose richness and complexity cannot be reduced to the cold one-dimensionality of a spread sheet.
When it comes to real cultural identity, Europe's true "common language" is composed of its musical, literary, artistic, and architectural traditions-the cultural substance perceived by all as European.
This common cultural substance is the foundation on which European nations and states are built.
Perhaps the paranoid style in public debate, focusing on motives rather than substance, is a useful defensive tactic against rabid critics.
But the most important – and the most worrying – qualities they share is an ability to substitute salesmanship for substance, a willingness to tell bald-faced lies in pursuit of publicity and advantage, and an eagerness to intimidate critics into silence.
People will base their votes in the referendum not on the substance of the amendments, but on how they feel about the AKP’s eight years in power.
Openness and the principle of solidarity belong to the very substance of NATO and, as such, they are rooted also in the text of the Washington Treaty that opened the door to NATO expansion.
For them, rhetoric is more important than substance and power is more important than how it is exercised.
The number-one component of any fertilizer is nitrogen, and the first of the two German researchers, Fritz Haber, discovered how to work the dangerous, complex chemistry needed to pull nitrogen out of the atmosphere – where it is abundant but useless for fertilizer – and turn it into a substance that can grow plants.
In short, it is beginning to look as though any success in the current round of trade talks will be based on agreements without substance.
The lack of common ground among the BRICS has prompted cynics to call the grouping an acronym with no substance.
The greatest harm comes from the cumulative burden of multiple risk factors, including neglect, abuse, parental substance abuse or mental illness, and exposure to violence.
His moderate reputation is more a matter of style than substance, but it goes a long way outside Croatia.
But, in terms of substance – austerity versus urgently needed economic growth – France lost.
But the fact is that 17 years of high-level bilateral cooperation have produced little of substance.
In part, the criticism of Varoufakis reflects less the substance of his proposals than the manner in which he approached his interlocutors.
Bush and Schroeder will make up for the paucity of substance with a good deal of friendly banter and bonhomie before the press assembled in Mainz.
In economic substance, the Blue Bond scheme is compatible with the no-bailout clause in Article 125 of the EU Treaty, because the debt guarantee would apply only to senior debt amounting at most to 60% of GDP, the level that the Maastricht Treaty deems sustainable for any EU member state.
The risk that a substance poses broadly depends on two factors: its inherent capacity to cause harm and one’s exposure to it.
This would be a shame, because these are highly effective and widely used herbicides, and when the IARC makes its decisions, it does not consider whether the substance in question is actually likely to cause cancer in the real world.
As a result, the IARC has in the past classified aloe vera, acrylamide (a substance created by frying foods, such as French fries and potato chips), cell phones, working night shifts, Asian pickled vegetables, and coffee as “probable” or “possible” carcinogens.
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