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166 examples of Substantive in a sentence

Over the next 37 days, 27 different people would post 800 substantive comments containing 170,000 words.
But, there is something more substantive to that.
We work to promote healthy vibrant societies, to ameliorate human suffering, to promote a more thoughtful, substantive, empathic world order.
It's too much posturing to be entertaining and not substantive enough to be informative.
This film is a perfect example of how to take a fascinating subject, come up with 25 minutes of substantive material and stretch it into a six hour borefest resembling the shape a documentary might take if Fox news decided to make one.
When Bill Maher, Carl Bernstein, a former president, or other substantive guests sit across from him, it's not too bad.
I would love to see a more substantive story, because there was more to Karen than meets the eyes when listening to We've Only Just Begun.
It does get a bit more substantive after a while, but all characters are still cartoonish.
The intervening steps that the filmmakers force Ted to participate in (meeting with so-called experts) were empty and devoid of any substantive attempt to connect with Ted.
That having been said, episode 01 gives a very substantive background of the very popular "Battlestar Galactica" series (both the original and the 2007 remake).
The story is poetic, substantive, and creative.
An entertaining and substantive film, Non-Stop has drawn deserving comparisons with "Run Lola Run".
The plot was weak, with the only substantive storyline occurring in the first 15 mins., and the last 15 mins.
It was so thoroughly well-done and substantive, I kept thinking it was European, but the accents were American...Ah yes, it was Canadian, that explains the high quality.
Bottom line, the film is inoffensive, but really not very substantive entertainment-wise or message-wise.
The film is long enough to be very substantive in content but short enough to grab your attention.
Kanin and the scriptwriters manage to form a substantive, if occasionally gossamer light, whole out of the playing of fine leads and canny comic incidents.
As someone who was involved with important issues like the Vietnam War and civil rights and free speech, I was totally offended by the film's nihilism, the ideas that students demonstrate just because that's what today's students do, and that there are no substantive issues involved.
This show was substantive without being corny.
If it proves too difficult to reach agreement on a substantive equity principle, then an agreement that some carbon Gini coefficients are simply too extreme to be fair could form the basis of a minimum consensus.
But, with talks repeatedly failing to generate any substantive progress, Turkey’s leaders are beginning to consider how a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities would affect their country’s interests.
Investors may respond emotionally, but they are unlikely to let their anger cause them to miss what appears to be a substantive increase in value.
As a result, one would expect that it would attract a large volume of substantive criticism.
Many of the new agreements are symbolic, but some are substantive, including deals worth $2.5 billion and an agreement to set up a $1 billion bilateral-investment fund.
First elections, in particular, are almost inevitably of limited value as foundations of democracy, because they take place in an emotionally charged atmosphere and largely without substantive debate.
Instead, they argue that the reforms are too risky or purge their substantive provisions.
The substantive response to the reactionary revival must be to give content to this largely unfulfilled promise.
There will be no substantive and permanent peace for any peoples in this troubled region as long as Israel is violating key UN resolutions, official American policy and the international “road map” for peace by occupying Arab lands and oppressing the Palestinians.
But, all these years later, I have yet to meet anyone who knows what they are talking about who is prepared to defend Kyoto as a substantive global public policy.
Similar political and substantive jockeying occurs in European countries.
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