6 sentences with 'substantial'
Example sentences and phrases with the word substantial and other words derived from it.
• « Another substantial contribution was made by the Scandinavian Elli Bjöksten, professor of gymnastics at the University of Helsinki. She was a pioneer of specially organised programmes for women and girls. »
• « Most state offices did not pay salaries, so only those with substantial incomes from land (or booty earned in campaigns) could afford to serve as full-time representatives, officials or judges, which also fuelled the political power of the aristocracy over ordinary citizens. »
• « The Ottoman state was not so dependent on a single source of revenue. It enjoyed highly productive agricultural lands in various parts of the empire's vast territory and also generated substantial tax revenues from the jizya, the tax on non-Muslims (who made up a considerable part of the population). »
• « The most substantial European possessions in Africa consisted of Algeria, seized by France in the 1830s, and South Africa, divided between British control and two territories held by the descendants of early Dutch settlers, the Boers. The rest of the continent was almost entirely free of European rule (although the Portuguese maintained sparsely populated colonies in two areas). »
• « Meanwhile, the Spanish communists sought a Russian-style communist revolution and, even further to the left, a substantial anarchist coalition aimed at the complete abolition of government. The centre-left coalition was thus increasingly under siege, as the far left gravitated and the nobility and clergy joined the army in an anti-parliamentary right. Two years of anarchy ensued, from 1933 to 1935. »
• « For this reason, although the concept of democracy is of Greek origin, it has substantial differences between today's meaning and that of the Athenians: Athenian democracy had, in practice, oligarchic characteristics. »