Otherwise, we are trying to build on sand or air or something equally insubstantial.
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One such insubstantial claim is said to link MI6 with the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
An amiable, insubstantial amble around Galway, on the west coast of Ireland, in the company of Sgt.
There will be benefits to be sure, but there will be costs as well, some not wholly insubstantial.
"We do not plan on rolling over in these cases where people bring insubstantial cases against Merck, " he promised.
And my father was the insubstantial presence he wished to be, merely a man who lived in the house.
But the plastic body felt a bit insubstantial to me and the mono speaker on the rear was only fair.
The standard fitted locks are often insubstantial and the doors are made of aluminum--a screw driver can pry them apart.
The movie often plays like a series of TV-comedy skits, some of them funny and incisive, some larkish and insubstantial.
When you do, you will find the following: The allegations are frequently trivial, almost always technical, often immaterial and always insubstantial.
The men pass through a wilderness with towns so insubstantial that they seem merely scratched onto the surface of the desert.
But this argument was considered so insubstantial on the earlier appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court that it refused even to consider it.
The challenge for curators is not insubstantial: The works themselves are subtle, often faint, and require the utmost attention on the part of viewers.
For college football to go the way of the NFL would be for it to devalue the regular season in a not insubstantial way.
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In their big reflective jackets, the policemen appear crumpled and insubstantial.
He said the documents were "flimsy and insubstantial" and he would be writing to the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Richard Wilson, to ask him to investigate the matter.
This has occurred amid a de facto tightening of the kind Johnson referenced judging by a not insubstantial fall in 10-year Treasury yields over the last two weeks.
There is a consultation taking place to decide which vocational qualifications should be retained - after complaints that there were too many insubstantial qualifications, which carried little weight with employers.
The presence of a single non-exempt purpose, if more than insubstantial in nature, will destroy the exemption of the organization regardless of the number or importance of truly exempt purposes that are present.
From an initial insubstantial trickle it has grown to a world-class waterway, and as it spreads to 29km wide between Whitstable and Foulness Point, the Thames is heavy, not only with water, but millennia of history.
The omission, together with the sensational nature of the stories told by Plutarch and the vulgate sources, prompted at least one modern historian (Sir William Tarn) to dismiss Bagoas as another fiction, as insubstantial as Thalestris.
On another level, I sense an impeachment under these circumstances would prove extremely divisive for the country, inflaming the passions of those who would see impeachment as an attempt thwart the election process for insubstantial reasons.
But I say to all of those who sit on the sidelines and who like to comment about the insubstantial matters, asylum, crime, health, that's what people talk about, they don't talk about silly nonsense such as Amanda Platell.
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The expert concluded that those activities violated the status of the organizations under 501(c)(3), in that, among other things, those activities were intended to confer more than insubstantial benefits on GOPAC, on Mr. Gingrich, and on Republican entities and candidates.
In the context of indignities suffered by Indonesia's small-scale entrepreneurs from having a valuable business license confiscated for no apparent reason to being forced to sponsor a soccer tournament the burden heaped upon Dwi Henry Setiawan might seem insubstantial.
Stopped in my wheelchair in a corner of the courtyard, thinking of the dead baby, some dead baby passing sinless into heaven, substantial or insubstantial I just didn't think it was possible or desirable, and the thought of it, dying and going to heaven, was unacceptable.
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