The Chinese novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms furnishes material for many military plays.
The House of Saud's excesses and internal rivalries might have furnished material for several seasons of "Dynasty".
In any case, China's metamorphosis, bigger and swifter than that of nineteenth-century Europe and America, furnishes material of unsurpassed richness to its artists and writers.
Passages that in earlier times would have furnished material for an entire number here crowd in on each other, shouldering themselves unceremoniously to the fore in bewildering succession".
If not indisputably America's most famous nightspot, it was certainly in the front ranks of Cafe Society, whose effervescent goings-on (as reported in daily columns, glossy magazines and sophisticated Hollywood comedies) furnished material for the fantasy life of millions in that bleak era.
It is time for Top Secret America to ask itself whether its own flawed and contradictory assumptions and strategies are furnishing "material aid to terrorism".
Agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and mining have furnished materials for Washington's processing plants since the 19th century.
"To have gone further," they noted without irony, "might have furnished materials to the pernicious Spirit of Speculation".
In terms of resources, Ikea has committed to recycling 90percentnt of store waste and making its 10,000 strong product line more sustainable by ensuring all main home furnishing materials, including packaging, are renewable, recyclable or recycled.
It also invests in industrial projects, asset management, purchase and sale of building, furnishing materials, and construction equipment.
