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    substantive


    1. Reason must be carefully instructed in order to achieve the highest level of its natural potential unlike Instinct whose adaptive nature, restricted (solely) to immediate things, need not concern itself over substantive matters that should otherwise give pause to critical thinking


    2. The two trends of which Scruton writes, child-centered education and disinterest in substantive content, have been exacerbated by the “zeal of the egalitarians” who hate learning because real learning reveals differences in achievement levels


    3. notions of the validity of reincarnation, or substantive information about a deceased person who


    4. ” However, as the Revolution unfolded and new constitutions were written, the French added a fourth substantive


    5. However, the evidence shows that this cannot be a substantive plasticity but a superficial plasticity which simply relocates the links to invisible higher energy body-brains


    6. to “slip into” the mistake of assuming that the similarities involved are actually substantive, and


    7. Fortunately there are enough substantive offerings that popular culture is not a complete


    8. positing the relationship is either antipathy or allegiance rather than any substantive


    9. But the substantive part of his life fascinated her in the beginning and endeared him to her in the end


    10. Commodore Singh said, “I believe that answers all the substantive questions

    11. She responded politely when Rachel asked general questions about her condition, whether she was getting enough food or exercise, or the way she was being treated, but more substantive inquiries were met with silence


    12. So while it was one of your more subtle and less substantive chapters in terms of plot progression, for me it shows a turning point for severe of your characters


    13. Doubtful that she could add anything substantive to his investigation, Wickland nodded and replied skeptically yet sweetly, “I see


    14. passing hello that really isn’t meant as a substantive query,” Garcia said


    15. DA Leader, Mazibuko, said that the party would likely also be tabling substantive motions against members of Zuma's cabinet implicated for wrongdoing in the report


    16. When is a negotiation not a negotiation? When both parties involved admit that on the one substantive issue involved, there is no movement


    17. Both sides have effectively signalled that, on the substantive issue, there will be no negotiation


    18. They include the demand for symbolic and substantive accommodations in political, economic and legal areas (for example, special treatment or rights for Muslims in the workplace, in public spaces and by government); the opportunity to penetrate and influence operations against government at every level; and the insinuation of the Trojan horse of “Shariah-compliant finance” into the West’s


    19. This word, as a substantive here, and as an


    20. motion with the substantive auxiliary

    21. A French word, used as a substantive and as anadjective both in French and in Spanish, which borrows the


    22. The Shia south will join Iran, handing over the substantive oil


    23. T, in the form of a substantive noun; eight times translated “Perdition,” five times “Destruction,” two times “Waste” and once each “Die,” “Perish,” “Damnable,” “Damnation,” “Pernicious Ways


    24. Is the Pneuma, or spirit, here spoken of as begotten or born of the Holy Spirit, a new substantive addition in regeneration to the nature of the man born of the flesh? or is it the enewal in power of an element belonging to man as born into the world? Has every man pneu~ma as well as yuch>, spirit as well as soul? or is spirit the production of the Holy Spirit in regeneration, and therefore peculiar to the saved? This question is one of exceeding difficulty, partly in consequence of the varying terminology adopted by so large a number of Scripture writers, which renders it perhaps impossible to extract from them a homogeneous psychology


    25. I’ve already told Ricketts about my conversation with Justin today, the substantive part


    26. Many who knew her, thought it a pity that so substantive and rare a creature should have been absorbed into the life of another, and be only known in a certain circle as a wife and mother


    27. For the trader short volatility, this may provide a substantive reason to hold on to a position despite a one-or two-day adverse move in implied volatility


    28. But there was a substantive difference


    29. There is no substantive consolidation of the interests of the company with those of the shareholders or any other corporate constituency


    30. Securities have substantive characteristics that must be understood

    31. We discuss the substantive characteristics of securities in Chapter 4


    32. For G&D and MCT, substantive consolidation is of prime importance


    33. The ideas of substantive consolidation, in which the interests of the company and its stockholders are combined and seen as one and the same and structural subordination, in which the company’s raison d’être is to serve the best interests of its stockholders, especially its non-control OPMI stockholders, are central assumptions of both G&D and MCT


    34. The substantive consolidation and structural subordination doctrines so important to G&D and MCT are relative rarities in the real world, though they do exist in special cases


    35. In G&D and MCT, though, the underlying assumption seems to be that substantive consolidation and structural subordination are universal, not special cases


    36. In any event, these approaches to substantive consolidation and structural subordination are not helpful concepts at all in fundamental finance


    37. The terms substantive consolidation and structural subordination originated in reorganizations under Chapter 11 of the U


    38. Substantive consolidation occurs when, for purposes of a reorganization, two separate entities are combined into one; say, for example, a solvent parent company creditors are placed in the same class as the creditor of an insolvent subsidiary as part of a reorganization plan


    39. As an aside, modern capital theorists seem to measure attractive finance solely by interest rates, deeming, say, a 6 percent margin borrowing by an OPMI stockholder as more attractive in a substantive consolidation context than a corporate issuance of 12 percent subordinated debentures


    40. This simple fact is what people subscribing to the substantive consolidation doctrine miss

    41. The controversy over stock options, that is, whether options ought to be expensed using the fair value method—FASB 123; or whether options ought to be expensed using the intrinsic value method—APB 25, sheds much light on the reach of the substantive consolidation doctrine and the resulting bad direction for GAAP, which decided that FASB 123, in effect, reflected economic reality


    42. This is the substantive consolidation element of the plan


    43. Substantive consolidation occurs when, for purposes of a reorganization, two separate entities are combined into one; say, for example, solvent parent company creditors are placed in the same class as the creditor of an insolvent subsidiary as part of a reorganization plan


    44. Probably the most important thing to understand in examining the substantive characteristics of securities is that control common stock is essentially a different commodity from OPMI common stock


    45. Much of the substantive differences between control pricing and OPMI pricing are resolved through long-term arbitrages, which are the very essence of the tendency toward efficiency that exists in all markets, specifically between and among disparate markets


    46. An underlying assumption found in MCT and in Graham and Dodd is that there is a substantive consolidation between the interests of the OPMI and corporate feasibility


    47. Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, in discussing dividend policy, focused on substantive consolidation


    48. We provide a primer on capital structure from the corporate point of view to debunk the substantive consolidation view of capital structure that is prevalent in Graham and Dodd and modern capital theory


    49. The Kelly framework highlights the substantive importance of the second one


    50. A basic problem faced by financial academics, whether efficient market theorists or behaviorists, is that they are strictly top-down—studying economies, markets, and prices, not the underlying bottom-up fundamentals that really determine what a business might be worth and what are the substantive characteristics of the securities issued by that business



























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    Synonyms for "substantive"

    substantive essential substantial meaty key obligatory urgent necessary indispensable wanted organic

    "substantive" definitions

    any word or group of words functioning as a noun


    of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something


    defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established


    being on topic and prompting thought