Such a tale of love and loss has been told many times before, but in modern writing, it is the style and not the substance that is gripping.
Many times people are placed in leadership roles and inherently believe that their teams will follow them due to the title on their business card and not the substance of their character.
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It is not implausible to think that at that moment the president was preoccupied watching his lawyer do his job and not listening carefully and not tracking word by word the substance of the exchange.
And there was resistance to the temptation in Washington to turn these things into political talking points, but allow them instead to be more organic and focused on the substance -- and not just on fiscal issues, as I said, but immigration reform, gun violence, energy independence, education -- the whole range of issues that are the President's priorities and they also happen to be the American people's priorities.
Stilnox, used to treat insomnia, is not considered a performance enhancer and is not a banned substance, but the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) put it on the prohibited list ahead of the Games.
"The committee wants to assure you that it intends to focus solely on the administrative process of the case assignments, and will not make any queries which go to the substance of these or any other cases before the (court), " Burton said in his letter requesting testimony from Judge Johnson.
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Such a transformation in tone and substance from the President will not come easily for him.
They also argued that since alcohol and substance abuse were not factors in the case, the ban on their use was not warranted.
And with the substance of democracy, if not its forms, under challenge in several countries, the region needs Paraguay's young democratic institutions to hold fast.
But waiting for its cooperation on missile defense will only delay us further and re-create the form, if not the substance, of our Cold War antagonism while taking energy from opportunities to work together in areas vital to international security.
"It shows the prime minister is interested in substance, not image, and that what he wants to do is continue to focus on the issues, " his official spokesman said.
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The eerie light probably came not from the substance itself, but from the boundary between it and the glass layer below.
The meeting raised no new issues of substance that had not previously been discussed between the FIA and Government and therefore no formal minute was made.
Both do well in the workplace and these characteristics are about style not substance.
Exuberant Australian spinner Shane Warne was another to fall foul of a drug ban, only his was not a herbal substance but the diuretics hydrochlorothiazide and amiloride normally used to aid temporary weight loss.
But the sum and substance of his criminal career was not like a string of bank robberies.
Burton, who was McLarty's policy and staff director in 1993 and 1994, would not specify what attorneys asked him, or the substance of his testimony.
Most of the protesters say they would anyway refuse to talk, arguing that Mr Assad's occasional previous offers of concessions (promises of political reform, salary increases, moves to get rid of emergency laws in form if not in substance, concessions to the Kurdish minority and to conservative Muslims, and so on) have invariably been followed by violent repression.
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But this time, the substance in question is not meant to dull and numb.
Ether lurked in the heavens, a magical and almost spiritual substance he could not pin down.
He tells us that the difference between Kadima and Likud is one of tone, not substance.
" He adds: "We have avoided Elmer Gantry excesses and made a conscious effort not to create an image that is greater than the substance.
On the substance, there's really not much difference between Romney and Obama on Israel.
It's not every salad that has the substance to stand up to such a rich and savory final flourish.
Conservatives typically are accused of elevating legal process above substance, of looking only at whether the courts followed the rules and not whether the outcome was just.
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The IRS concluded, as it did in the Anschutz case, that the two transactions were in substance (if not form) really one and constituted a sale, taxable in 2002.
Plus, clinical experience with patients who describe themselves as Internet addicts has been that they do not respond to treatment in the same way that, for example, alcoholics and substance-abusers do.
Pfizer, which already faces two class-action lawsuits and a government investigation in Nigeria over the Trovan trials, said it would not comment on the substance of the suit because it had not seen the document.
We have not found any substance to the suggestion of off-the-record background briefings by Avon and Somerset Police relating to Mr Jefferies.
Valera, who lived in the Bronx, pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiracy and criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance.
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