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At the time they were described as administrative and procedural rather than substantive; but taken together they have resulted in the most profound changes in U.S. patent policy and practice since 1836.† (source)
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The rote answer is that the Supreme Court has no business striking down democratically enacted (though perhaps unwise) laws, least of all under fanciful theories of substantive due process.† (source)
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The People's Republic will never substantively touch Hong Kong!† (source)
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However, I felt like a schoolmaster amidst children, and persisted, and presently I had a score of noun substantives at least at my command; and then I got to demonstrative pronouns, and even the verb "to eat."† (source)
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Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are fugitives from justice.† (source)
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The impact would be magnified by the lens of human mass psychology and culture until it resulted in huge, substantive influences on the progress of civilization.† (source)
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Whoever acquired any real or substantive intelligence from reading newspapers?† (source)
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Either I missed some subtle point or their language was excessively simple—almost exclusively composed of concrete substantives and verbs.† (source)
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Am I substantively correct?† (source)
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Again I doubt it—but even more anarchistic dedications of verbs and adjectives to substantival use are to be found in the /Congressional Record/ every day.† (source)
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Still, Pearson had to be more mindful of the concerns of black residents than at the beginning of his career—even if that mindfulness didn't translate into any substantive changes during his tenure.† (source)
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They are made of substantives unchanged: /codfish/, /jitney/.† (source)
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The caller was Wenzu, reporting the progress being made at Kai Tak, or more substantively, as was apparent, the lack of progress.† (source)
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Meanwhile, Ron was reading two years' worth of Charms notes with his fingers in his ears, his lips moving soundlessly; Seamus Finnigan was lying flat on his back on the floor, reciting the definition of a Substantive Charm while Dean checked it against The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 5; and Parvati and Lavender, who were practising basic Locomotion Charms, were making their pencil-cases race each other around the edge of the table.† (source)
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One recalls, too, some excellent substantives, /e.† (source)
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And as the number of media grew, the material became more up to date, and the methods for searching the Library became more and more sophisticated, it approached the point where there was no substantive difference between the Library of Congress and the Central Intelligence Agency.† (source)
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