verb
definition
To verify something by supplying evidence; to authenticate or corroborate
definition
To give material form or substance to something; to embody; to record in documents
Examples of substantiated in a Sentence
Claims to a favourable verdict must now be substantiated in this field and in this field alone.
This latter charge, though proved to the satisfaction of the committees of both Houses of Parliament, broke down under the cross-examination of the government witnesses by the counsel for the defence, and could indeed only have been substantiated by a dangerous stretching of the doctrine of constructive treason.
Before the ratification of his exchange he obtained command of some vessels, and conducted various naval attacks against the English; and having, on his return to France in 1760, fallen accidentally into their hands, he was, on the ground of having broken his parole, thrown into prison at Portsmouth, but as the charge could not be properly substantiated he was soon afterwards released.
No defence apparently was possible; there are hints, not well substantiated, of treachery; there is greater probability of surprise.
An African origin has also been suggested for the hollow-horned ruminants (Bovidae); and if this were substantiated it would explain the abundance of that family in Africa and the absence from the heart of that continent of the deer-tribe.
But nothing has yet been substantiated.
The primary offence of the ex-chancellor was the taking of bribes, which no twisting of the law could convert into a capital offence, while the charge of treason had not been substantiated.
In 1566 he was summoned before a newly erected tribunal and condemned to death for gross neglect of duty, though not one of the frivolous charges brought against him could be substantiated.
The family was of English descent, but the claim of relationship to the famous Wat Tyler, though always stoutly maintained by President Tyler, cannot be substantiated.
Claims in sung jingles should be substantiated in the same way as those using the spoken word.
They also include a significant reduction in abstraction licenses to protect the environment which the Company does not believe have yet been properly substantiated.
There are no substantiated reported cases of death from cannabis overdose.
However, any opinion you advance must be well substantiated.
Even allowing for exaggeration, they are not substantiated by any English or Irish source.
This same year his naval accounts were subjected to an examination in consequence of his indignant refusal to take part in the attack upon Ormonde; 1 and he was suspended from his office in 1668, no charge,however, against him being substantiated.
It has been substantiated by numerous subsidiary investigations in diverse departments, from different standpoints, and under various aspects, and can be replaced only by one which shall more adequately explain the literary and historical evidence (see further, p. 289).
On average we receive six letters of appreciation for every substantiated complaint.
The importance of each type of activity was substantiated by research evidence.
Is it credible to have a position that cannot be substantiated by fact?
There are several references to dredging activity within the harbor which are not readily substantiated by quantitative data.
Given the limited data size, the findings need however be substantiated by more large scale research.
There are rumors that the Figaro cat food had made several cats sick, but these rumors are not substantiated by any known facts.
Thanks to these studies, you can find substantiated answers to the question, what is acai berry good for?
In 1996, more than 3 million victims of alleged abuse were reported to child protective services in the United States; reports were substantiated in more than one million cases.
There has been no substantiated link between monitoring and the decrease in SIDS, and infants have, in fact, died while being monitored.
Better Business Bureau representatives follow up on those complaints over a period of time, determining if they can be substantiated.
While many authors have credited Kafka as the true originator of the industrial hard hat, there is still plenty of debate as to whether this innovation can be substantiated.
The account of the substitution in the Temple is well substantiated, even to the names of the substitutes.
Mill was earnestly opposed to the transfer, and the documents in which he substantiated the proud boast for the Company that "few governments, even under far more favourable circumstances, have attempted so much for the good of their subjects or carried so many of their attempts to a beneficial issue," and exposed the defects of the proposed new government, are models of trenchant and dignified pleading.
Their pneumonic nature has been amply substantiated in later times; they are now regarded simply as evidence of pneumonic reaction to the stimulus of the tubercle bacillus.
This estimate of Spencerian philosophy may be substantiated by a brief survey of its origin and leading characteristics.
It is, however, doubtful in what sense this word appeared to him, either as a name of God, as in the Old Testament it often occurs and regularly without the article, or actually as the epithet of a heavenly book, although this use cannot be substantiated from Jewish literature.
This summary gives a picture of Saul's ability and position which differs so markedly from the subsequent more extensive narratives of David's history that its genuineness has sometimes been questioned; nevertheless it is substantiated by the old poem quoted from the Book of Jashar in 2 Sam.