Sentence examples for less materially from inspiring English sources
"I think there has been something of a philosophical change," said McWilliams. "People are becoming less materially driven and more about experiences.
With the economy crippled, joblessness at a 14-year high and more financial bad news almost certain to come, there was a lot less, materially speaking, for thousands to be grateful for as they gathered around Thanksgiving tables.
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman, which have relatively low exposures to European lenders, are likely to be less materially affected by their retrenchment than the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain, it said.
If the Basij see an enemy in Mohsen, it is partly because the young man's appearance — gelled hair, blue jeans, smooth cheeks — connotes the secular liberality of a less materially deprived class.
To many, sustainability still means slower, more complicated, less materially satisfying, less profitable.
As we do realize which parts of our life we can whittle away, sculpting our new selves, we become aware that we may really need much less materially than we had initially assessed and gain much more emotionally and intellectually.
3. Re-defining the meaning of economic growth to focus less on materially-focused GDP, and more on the capacity to deliver values such as health, education, well-being, longevity, political and cultural freedom.
"The probability of this transaction being consummated is materially less than 100percentt," said Samuel Buttrick, an airline analyst at PaineWebber.
"In addition, performance has improved, the merger benefits are materially less than they were and our share price is almost twice the level it was".
In our early assessment, we believe Trump is likely to quickly alter Iran sanctions, less likely to materially alter Russia sanctions, and least likely to roll back the easing of Cuba sanctions.
In the Observer, Kitty Empire also gave the album four stars: "This album takes anxiety as a theme, but it sounds materially less neurotic than their previous records, for good and ill," she wrote.
