Sentences with phrase «what little substance»

Mostly spin, and what little substance there is being about inexperienced responses to prior attacks.

Robert P. George's recent «On the Square» takes apart what little substance there is in the statement, and he does so with his usual force and precision.

Not exact matches

Standing in front of business and government leaders from around the world at what is being coined the «Asian Davos,» President Xi Jinping delivered China to the world stage but left little substance last night.

If relevancy can not be achieved through deep buyer insights then all the customer - centric slogans, banners, programs, and promotions will be seen by customers for what they are — rhetoric with little substance.

Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the consti.tution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance.

I am not in love with the board nor overly enamoured with some of Wenger's dealings / decisions but I still find myself disagreeing with nearly everything you say — and if it is not the content of what you say then it will be the manner in which you say it which will leave people non-plussed — all fire and brimstone with little substance or logic.

Later, while not denying that, like most of his contemporaries, he had smoked a little pot now and then, he declared that what angered him most was the way the four cops had gone straight upstairs, returning instantly with the «substance.»

The question is, why would he, when it took so little of substance to get them to ditch their support of Ms. Teachout and give him the WFP line that he prized less for what it could do for him than what he feared it could do to cut into his lead if given to someone else?

«We have little information about what happens to propylene glycol in the air,» the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry says on its Web site.

The gunplay (what little there is), is done well, and even though the film is more style than substance, and could stand to be trimmed up greatly, it's a thinking man's drama / thriller, and not a blockbuster action film.

The developers started this off as just a little workshop and we demanded it, and the developer has made a shed load of money for what is a game that has little substance.

In any case, the Obama Administration lacks much in the way of leverage against California's move (and similar steps that could be taken by other states still under No Child) because it has effectively shredded the law, both through the waiver gambit and by blessing moves by states that are, in substance, little different than what California has done.

The quotes with a little substance can tell you a lot about what the reader liked about the book and if it is something you would like too.

What do you do when a game has broken mechanics, little to no story and a complete and utter lack of substance?

I don't place much stock, however, in formal credentials (and mine certainly have little directly to do with «climate science»); I care more about the substance of a man's speech, thoughts and actions than what's on paper or the laurels he sports.

Bicycle Friendly America Fall 2016 - 27 substance, offering little more than whether the cyclist was wearing a helmet, as if that is even relevant information into what caused the crash.

A well - crafted cover letter connects the substance of what you can do with a little bit of salesmanship.

And most psychologists have leaned toward specialization in their own past practices, which also discounts their «expertise» as a know - everything generalist and means that for the most part they are little better than laypersons — a few courses in graduate school do not an expert make in substance abuse, domestic violence, parenting capacity (or even what constitutes «good parenting»), child sex abuse, family systems, psychometric testing, infant attachment, personality disorders, child development, breastfeeding, sibling relationships, child education, medical decision - making, communications, marital relations, and so forth.