This is unfortunate, in my view, as the substantive issues involved are much wider and deeper.
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But very quickly, relationship issues start to affect how well we handle the substantive issues.
Patrick Leahy of Vermont said such Republican criticism of Sotomayor was inspired by politics rather than substantive issues.
The reason has nothing to do with any sense of personal shyness about taking strong stands on substantive issues.
The Gore campaign, which believes its candidate has a stronger grasp of the substantive issues than his opponent, was delighted.
First of all, we have coordinated a common approach today which says that some substantive issues are almost -- are none left.
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Some feminists remain unhappy that the Ivy League-educated lawyer hasn't used her position to champion what they view as more substantive issues.
He has already met the Israeli prime minister umpteen times and they have been unable to agree on any of the substantive issues.
In the final two weeks, Palin was at last given a chance to make in-depth speeches on substantive issues like energy and special-needs children.
Before delving into any of the substantive issues of the deliberations, consider for a moment some of the negotiating stagecraft employed by the Chinese.
And usually those attempts to distract attention are driven by a concern that the person attempting to distract is losing the debate on the substantive issues.
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And as I said before, there's always an attempt during campaigns to distract attention from the substantive policy issues when you're losing the substantive policy issues and debates.
All of these challenges relate to substantive issues of disarmament.
Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog has confirmed it is sending a team to Iran between 29 and 31 January "to resolve all outstanding substantive issues".
These are the substantive issues that will be decided for this country and that will have a huge impact on this country and on America's seniors and others for years to come.
In government most substantive issues cut across departments.
There are many gradations of public engagement, from simply explaining various dimensions of climate science (from computer models to changes already underway around the world), to more engaging in substantive issues of policy or more assertive forms of advocacy.
The substantive issues are unchanged.
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Every moment spent on what a quorum means is a moment less that can be used to discuss substantive issues that are already struggling to get a decent hearing, such as the growing impact of ocean noise on cetaceans and the implications of climate change.
"On a lot of substantive issues like health insurance, he was the first one out of the box with a very ambitious universal plan, and I think he forced the others to become bolder in a lot of their policy prescriptions, energy dependence and so on, " Klein said.
We had a council meeting today in the middle of August to talk about some very substantive policy issues for urban America.
But these are substantive policy issues that affected hundreds of thousands, even millions of Americans, and they're very worth speaking about as President.
This article, by identifying both professional responsibility and substantive legal issues inherent in SCF, seeks to fill in the current gap and instigate a much needed critical examination among practitioners, scholars, and policymakers.
That's part of every campaign, and it's often the result of one side trying to change the subject when they're losing the debate on the substantive policy issues that matter most to the American people.
We certainly hope that we can make some substantive progress on issues that we know are of importance to both sides.
Surely even the least financially sophisticated viewers realized that the Senators had no substantive understanding of the issues.
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With the candidates expressing few substantive differences on the issues, observers say the race may turn more on personality than politics, and, of course, on who gets out the vote.
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