What is "substantial"

Usage examples of "substantial".

Why then should not this first, primitive, health-enjoying and life-sustaining class of our people be equally accommodated in all that gives to social and substantial life, its due development?

The assessor is not a very sophisticated man, but he does have substantial, um, appetites.

The thatched roofs of the more primitive type of cabins looked bedrabbled, like the hair of a bather emerging from the lake, and the more substantial shelters were crowded with the overflow from these and from tents deserted by troops and patrols that had been almost drowned out.

Her objection to required breeding was more substantial than that of the males.

If this went on, humans would eventually drain a substantial proportion of the exergy reservoir of the Galaxy as a whole, before exhausting themselves or falling on each other in war.

Elsewhere, Yount was helping Sarah kindle a campfire with some dead weed stalks, and Clover Lee and Magpie Maggie Hag were moving about the lot, bent over, apparently in search of more substantial burnables.

Two troopers, one a pock-faced veteran who had spent his years raising malingering to a substantial art, the other a bull with a broad, flat nose smashed in a tavern brawl, had stoked up a fire for drinks, as troopers will do given any short stop.

I told him that if he were willing, in case the United States, with France and Germany and some of the smaller nations, would establish a common standard for gold and silver, to declare that the step would have the approval of England, and that, although she would maintain the gold standard alone for domestic purposes, she would make a substantial and most important contribution to the success of the joint undertaking, that it would insure the defeat of the project for silver monometallism, from which England, who was so largely our creditor, would suffer, in the beginning almost as much as we would, and perhaps much more, and would avert the panic and confusion in the business of the world, which would be brought about by the success of the project.

In developing my own theory of music I have decided to take what might be called the strong approach, and I assume that in the first instance a theory of music should be capable of explaining all observed features of music, whether or not those features are found across all cultures, as long as it can be established that the features contribute substantially to the musicality of music for a substantial number of listeners.

A substantial following was tagging along by the time Patrel and the others stepped through the rough-cut door and into the headquarters.

That it was able to play this double role arose from its being on the one hand pervious to light, while yet possessing a certain substantial density.

Buying and selling these products through shell companies was how Phate made his substantial income.

The ruins were silent and overgrown with grass and even some pinyon pines, yet they were substantial and still impressive with their stairways, round ceremonial pits, and sturdy rock walls.

The arrangement seemed equitable in view of her substantial contribution to the plenishing of the house.

If the United States ensured their security, provided substantial economic support, and assisted in the creation of a stable, inclusive, and pluralist Iraqi political system, it seems quite likely that the Iraqi people would approve of the U.