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And this is your best chance to feel like a person of substance.

It is now one that voters expect to be filled with a person of substance.

"But she was a person of substance underneath all of that.

Not landed gentry, of course, but a person of substance.

Buying silverware was a way to establish yourself as a person of substance."

The subjects are persons of substance and reputation.

And so what person of substance would want such a job in which, at this point, he would seem more a figurehead than a decision-maker?

He told reporters yesterday that Mr. Dinkins is "not a person of substance."

And should a person of substance not be on the mailing list for Global Business, subscriptions may be purchased.

He had become suddenly a person of substance- an associate of men of consequence, with a commensurate income.

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Lainie Kazan has a scene as Gigli's mother, who immediately senses that Ricki is a person of substance.

Indeed, they say, the dismissals showed people in foreign capitals that Mr. Reagan was a person of substance who was not to be trifled with.

Like most other persons of substance along the river, Donald at first harbored private reservations about the fellow Peggy McLean had married.

He was Andries Pretorius, clean-shaven, younger than the other leaders, a person of substance in Graaff-Reinet.

After a lifetime of lopping heads, winding the rack and twisting noses, you have become a person of substance, perhaps even of social pretension.

Nothing is more remarkable than the habitual acquaintance of educated persons, both men and women, with the law, which was evidently indispensable to persons of substance.

If you keep doing this song-and-dance act you will lose all appetite, I suspect, but more importantly, all possibility of being regarded as a person of substance."

"He's a person of substance who has known all of us for a long time," said Joseph W. Polisi, president of the Juilliard School at Lincoln Center.

"But I need for them to know that he was a person of substance, and he was worthy, and he was a good son and a good brother and a good participant in the community."

My room, with knotty pine walls, had one of the typical tucked-in "ensuite bathrooms," so cleverly engineered that a person of substance such as myself has anxious moments while attempting to exit the shower.

Ms. Hollingsworth, who dresses in high-necked business suits and wears her hair in a quasi-bun, talks a lot about "impeccable credentials," being "a person of substance" and watching "Firing Line" on PBS.

Restoration A list of the cost of repairing pews in 1837 illustrates the point that persons of substance in the parish had their own personal pews while one must assume that the general populace stood at the rear.

Cutwell allowed himself five seconds to admire himself in the mirror before ramming the pointy hat on his head and running back to the door, stopping just in time to emerge at a sedate pace as befitted a person of substance.

The usual procedure followed is that the applicant lodges with the Court of Faculties a memorial counter-signed by local merchants, shipping companies, bankers and other persons of substance, which show the local need of a notary and the fitness of the applicant.