Sentence examples for Material accumulation from inspiring English sources

Sustainability empowers human development in harmonic synergy with nature, and discards our imperative need for consumption and material accumulation.

We recognise that material accumulation has played a role in giving us certain amazing technologies and the ability to do things, and obviously there's scientific innovation.

Howe writes from "within the bourgeois middle-class culture," Sellers scoffed, while his own (presumably more Waldenesque) life had taught him that "relations of capitalist production wrench a commodified humanity to relentless competitive effort and poison the more affective and altruistic relations of social reproduction that outweigh material accumulation for most human beings".

In the context of a society that, they feel, denies them the ability to take part in "mainstream" society – and especially denies them the ability to accumulate "things" – we should not be surprised that a group identity is formed in opposition to the "mainstream" and that violent material accumulation is the form of protest they take.

What is to prevent private museums from being glorified storage facilities — places for collectors to park art, with no higher purpose than to flaunt personal power through material accumulation?

In her new book, Robinson revisits this theme of Christian restlessness by decrying Max Weber's "unaccountably influential" book "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" for portraying Puritans as early-to-bed, early-to-rise drones, driven to material accumulation and convinced that worldly prosperity is the best measure of worth in God's eyes.

How strange that Toby was so simple and yet his simplicity had had all these solid, complicated effects in the real world, these material accumulations and accretions and children, too, the branching out and infinite complication of children.

Extreme torrent events in alpine regions have clearly shown a variety of process patterns involving morphological changes due to increased local erosion and deposition phenomena, and clogging of critical flow sections due to woody material accumulations.

In the year of enactment, SAB 108 required public companies to adjust material accumulations on the balance sheet that may have occurred prior to enactment of SAB 108 after considering all relevant quantitative and qualitative factors.

We found that storage material accumulations consisting of single-membrane bound, multilamellar 'fingerprint' type structures, similar to those previously described for juvenile NCL deficient cells, were also present in the RPE of the Cln3 Δex1- mice.

However, the lower carbon to nitrogen ratio in grazing land relative to the exclosure could be due to the low amount of organic materials accumulation through the litter fall from the immature grasses/shrubs, and addition of cow dung, which is enriched with total nitrogen.