We also do this because cash is the only tangible way to measure infinite loss.
"I think it's convenient for people to want to punish the school because it's the only tangible organization in this mess," Ms. Darrow-Rioux said.
That entry is still there, and for almost seven years it was the only tangible evidence that such a book had ever been attempted.
For me, giving up my sleep was the only tangible way I could connect to my son and my new role as a father.
It might be stretching things a bit to argue that voting is a "beautiful thing", but it is the only tangible way, apart from jury duty, that Americans connect directly to the political process of their polity.
Souvenir shops offer what appear to be the only tangible reminders of the tragedy: T-shirts reading "Bali Cry," "Terrorism Won't Stop Me," and "Osama Don't Surf".
Here's the maths: almost every country on earth, including Australia, has signed on to the idea that we shouldn't raise the planet's temperature more than two degrees – that was the only tangible outcome of the otherwise pointless Copenhagen conference on climate change in 2009.
NEAR THE BACK wall of a disused electronics superstore in Antioch, a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee, a Mexican flag on a pole is the only tangible sign that, for four days at least, this echoing space has become an outpost of the Mexican state.
Currently, this is the only tangible piece of evidence as to how the experiment could affect its subject. .
The pricing of the soda was the only tangible injustice I could quickly point to, so I fought her on it.
