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How to use the word substantial in a Sentence? Page #16

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

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There's no way I'd recommend anyone, any professional join the VA right now, because (VA Secretary Robert) McDonald has not made any substantial progress in holding people that do whistleblower retaliation accountable.

Katherine Mitchell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

While there is unlikely to be a substantial boost in Iranian production before next year, oil held in floating storage could start to hit world markets before then.

The IEA

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

However, we acknowledge that when all safety, efficacy and governance needs are met, there may be morally acceptable uses of this technology in human reproduction, though further substantial discussion and debate will be required.

Hinxton Group

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There has to be a pre-accord on the question of financing so that leaders come to Paris knowing there is certainty we will be able to conclude, if we don't conclude, and there are no substantial measures to ensure the transition, it won't be hundreds of thousands of refugees in the next 20 years, it will be millions.

French President Francois Hollande

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This report provides an utterly damning indictment of Mexico's handling of the worst human rights atrocity in recent memory, even with the world watching and with substantial resources at hand, the authorities proved unable or unwilling to conduct a serious investigation.

Jose Miguel Vivanco

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Until the state of China's economy becomes clearer, there will not be a substantial recovery in the market.

Fujio Ando

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our members tell us they have incurred substantial and demonstrable losses but so too have their customers. We had one case where a load of high-grade steel plate was written off because migrants had got into the trailer because it was delayed and that impacted all sorts of supply chains, nEW ERA.

Jack Semple

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The report is mixed in that it is bearish for crude oil, but somewhat supportive of refined products, crude oil imports rebounded markedly and refinery utilization fell again, allowing for the substantial crude oil inventory rise.

John Kilduff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Crude oil imports rebounded markedly and refinery utilization fell again, allowing for the substantial crude oil inventory rise.

John Kilduff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Sinclair rejected our extension offer and has chosen to use innocent consumers as pawns to gain leverage for the economic benefit of Sinclair, while causing substantial harm and disruption to the lives of consumers.

Warren Schlichting

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Lilya Shobukhova accepted from the outset that Lilya Shobukhova had committed an anti-doping rule violation, the information and documentation provided by Lilya Shobukhova has been of substantial value in uncovering and investigating anti-doping rule violations committed by other individuals, including athlete support personnel.

World Anti-Doping Agency

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The aviation business has a great deal of opportunity around the world and as we take full advantage of that opportunity it requires substantial amount of cash to sustain our leading position in that market, having a very strong cash-generative business working alongside it gives us a winning formula.

Chief Executive Jeremy Stafford

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

With respect to our partner ICA, we continue to think they are a very high quality operator, that they are a high quality partner for us, they have a substantial presence in the infrastructure business in Mexico, so we're very comfortable continuing to work with them.

Michael Sabia

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our data and our model suggest that the body doesn’t care that fat calories were cut, it just kept burning the same amount of fat as it did before which led to a substantial imbalance between the fat eaten and burned and therefore body fat loss.

Kevin Hall

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Public awareness is certainly one factor affecting the increase in the number of OCR sexual violence cases, due to the news coverage on sexual violence issues … it’s possible that students and other members of the public became better informed about resources available to them, which, in turn, may have contributed to the substantial increase in the number of complaints involving sexual violence.

Denise Horn

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Filing for suspension of payments now may optimise the chances that substantial parts of the Imtech Group may continue in the interest of all stakeholders and, specifically, our employees.

Royal Imtech

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We believe there is no way to have a substantial impact on mass incarceration without considering violent offenses, not every person in prison for a 'violent offense' is a murderer or an imminent danger to the public.

Urban Institute researcher Bryce Peterson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In this business, as with any freelance business, it takes a substantial amount of work just to get more work, anything that can help me manage these efforts in one location is going to make my life easier.

San Diego singer-songwriter Ryan Hiller

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The latest tape has at least 20 substantial and unexplained edits. Previous tapes released by this extremist group were heavily edited in order to distort what the people on the tapes actually said, these videos are intended to shock and deceive the public. For example, one video was edited to make it look like a doctor said she would.

Dawn Laguens

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think what we're seeing here is probably a bit of short-covering and bargain-hunting, just trading against the news, even though the results were disappointing, the stocks had been pretty solidly hammered already. I suspect there was already substantial disappointment already priced in.

Colin Cieszynski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The changes in the tobacco industry in the past 15 years have had a serious and substantial impact on food security in the country.

Eddie Cross

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're making a bit of a comeback after yesterday's selloff, the volatility is still substantial. The oversupply issues in resources, particularly energy, need to be resolved.

Irwin Michael

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The SEC relies on the accuracy of the books and records of financial institutions and blue sheet data, oZ Management's inaccurate data had a substantial ripple effect that the SEC staff discovered through diligent investigative work.

Andrew Ceresney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The SEC relies on the accuracy of the books and records of financial institutions and blue sheet data, oZ Management’s inaccurate data had a substantial ripple effect that the SEC staff discovered through diligent investigative work.

Andrew Ceresney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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