"Abusive practices continue to exist" and would continue unless Congress drafted "substantive protections" of consumers, the report said.

The majority of these legal instruments provides foreign investors with a substantive legal protection and direct means for redress against states for breaches of such treaties.

The House and the Senate finally agreed this summer on the substantive protections that patients should have.

And other backers of the bill asserted that it offered no substantive protection for gun makers.

We are getting closer and closer to a work force with no benefits and no substantive protections.

"Today's announcement rejects substantive protections for America's workers in favor of small symbolic gestures."

Constitutional law has provided substantive protection which bars recovery against a first amendment defense except upon clear and convincing evidence that there has been deliberate or reckless falsehood.

The medical institutional review boards that supervise these activities are overburdened and tend to focus on properly filling out forms rather than substantive protection.

There is no substantive protection for privacy in British law.

If that were not the case, there would be no point in having any substantive protection for civil liberties.