The phrase "a material assistance" is not correct in standard English; it should be "material assistance" without the article "a." You can use "material assistance" when referring to significant help or support provided in a specific context, often in legal, financial, or humanitarian discussions.
Example: "The organization provided material assistance to the victims of the disaster, ensuring they had food, shelter, and medical care."
Alternatives: "substantial help" or "significant support."
"Yeas, suh," said Ben. "The same deficiencies of nature prevail here as elsewhere, I reckon, requirin' a little material assistance to keep our pants up".
Mr. Mosed pleaded guilty in March to a federal charge of providing material assistance to a terrorist organization, which could have carried a 10-year sentence.
In a nation that treasured both the rule of law and a common defense, al-Awlaki would have been indicted by a federal grand jury for material assistance to a foreign terrorist organization and subjected to an Eichmann-like kidnapping and trial held in a civilian court with all the trappings of due process.
And yet, we use a nebulous and dangerous concept of "material assistance" to a terrorist organization to imprison Tarek Mehanna, a 29-year-old pharmacist from Sudbury, Massachusetts, for 17-and-a-half years for publishing a hateful speech.
In 2008, the State Department declared the Shabab a terrorist group, making it a crime to provide material assistance to them.
As part of a plea agreement, Mr. Alwan, 30, pleaded guilty to one count of providing material assistance to a terrorist group.
In February, he was convicted of providing material assistance to a terrorist organization: he had transferred $8,500 to al-Shabaab in Somalia.
The suspect, Yahya Goba, 26, pleaded guilty today in Federal District Court to one count of providing material assistance to a terrorist group, the same charge his co-defendant, Shafal Mosed, pleaded guilty to on Monday, as part of a deal with prosecutors.
A person may appeal for material assistance or seek psychological consolation from others, whether in times of crisis or simply for fun and entertainment [ 35].
(A request to my publisher for material assistance in this endeavor was politely rebuffed).
