Substantive

//ˈsʌbstəntɪv//

"Substantive" in a Sentence (14 examples)

This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

Pekka Ervast, the author of "The Key to the Kalevala", says that the lord and the creator of the world is called Kaleva, and that, as a substantive noun, Kalevala means "the home of the Creator or the Lord", meaning the higher planes of life or the higher zones of unseen world.

Some can talk on and on, about nothing substantive, ad infinitum.

In university, in Canada, I learned two different kinds of English, technical English and non-technical English, from different courses. I learned that the passive voice, as in "The cat was chased by the dog," is unacceptable in non-technical style, but technical writers use it frequently and legitimately. I learned in technical English that one should use demonstrative pronouns like "this" and "that" with a substantive, not by themselves. There were a lot of nuts and bolts.

Very serious and substantive discussions were held between Armenia and Azerbaijan on important aspects of the peace agenda - border delimitation, opening and development of the Zangezur corridor, initialing of the peace treaty, and other issues.

substantive information

In one sense the first debate achieved the worst of all worlds: it managed to be technical, even dull, without being substantive or especially honest.

Substantive editing is never trivial, whereas some aspects of copyediting are trivial.

substantive changes made by the lawyers

Once more then, strength and magnitude are qualities which impress the imagination in a powerful and substantive manner;

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So this test, this whole area of substantive due process, is tricky for some of the reasons you say. That’s been a criticism of the doctrine in general and a criticism of the general notion that we can have rights that the Constitution doesn’t specify, precisely because of the kind of inquiry that it invites judges to undertake.

Hee therefore taking into Conſideration, how ſufficient and ſuſstantiue this Land was, to maintaine it ſelfe without any aid (at all) of the foreigner; […]

The Dutch verb beelden and substantive beelding signify form-giving, creation, and by extension image—as do gestalten and Gestaltung in German, where Neo-Plastic[ism] is translated as Die neue Gestaltung.

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