Sentences with phrase «with form over substance»

Preoccupation with form over substance combined with denial and avoidance behavior are the chief causal factors for human failure — from the individual and family right up to the national level.

Some people get carried away with form over substance, though — that's not a good thing.

Not exact matches

The concept of God with say the Hebrew reflected and agreed with the form and substance as held over thousands of years.

Melting chocolate can be a difficult process as if it overheats (over 65 ⁰ C) or comes into contact with moisture the chocolate can «seize», forming an unusable, grainy - solid substance.

Our intestines (which should be filled with over 100 trillion good bacteria) form a tight junction and act as a proactive barrier to our system, keeping what should stay in the stomach stay there and making sure harmful substances such as yeast, food particles, toxins and bacteria are not absorbed directly into our blood stream.

But as long as HQN editors are working both with HQN and Dellarte writers, and thus earning HQN profits through both commercial and fee - based publishing, I would hope RWA wouldn't compound the «form over substance» problem by winking at HQN and saying that its commercial imprints are publishers even while those same editors are also working at Dellarte.

This was very much the case with his article Legal Publishing and Market Research — Getting It Right, in which he succeeds in identifying «form over substance» motives in some publishers» research and in so doing highlights something short of honesty behind much of it.

The first takeaway for employers with labour pains is that substance will prevail over form; notwithstanding calling some workers «independent contractors» they likely are «employees.»

Mr. Heffernan, who co-authored an amicus brief on behalf of the Real Estate Bar Association and the Abstract Club with Danielle Andrews Long, states that he was happy that the First Circuit certified the issue to the SJC, considering the «fairly harsh» Bankruptcy Court decisions on technically defective acknowledgements, which he calls «elevating form over substance.»

With China and South Korea taking a hardline stance on ICOs, no word from France, and a «substance over form» method from Canada, there's no one - size - fits - all approach.

«Market participants, including lawyers, trading venues and financial services firms, should be aware that we are disturbed by many examples of form being elevated over substance, with form - based arguments depriving investors of mandatory protections.

Remember, you are looking for a job and with resumes it is always substance over form.