Sentence examples for material benefits and from inspiring English sources
DEBATES about economic growth usually turn on the tension between material benefits and moral drawbacks.
The purpose of all this complex work is to increase material benefits and simultaneously reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing processes.
Other examples of the transformation to spiritual goals may be seen in the prayers of the ancient Babylonian and Assyrian kings who asked for the fear of God, rather than material benefits, and that of a priest of the Ewe (a West African people) who even asks of his god "That I remain near you and that you remain near me".
There is more to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness than a faster car and an iPod nano.Benjamin Friedman, a professor of economics at Harvard University, would doubtless agree with much of this but not with the recurring contrast that is drawn between material benefits and moral costs.
It is hard to point to any immediate material benefits and indeed many of the tough budgetary measures that flowed from the bailout will only take full effect in 2014.
Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939, by Daniel Soyer, holds an in-depth discussion on the importance of these hometown societies that provided members with valuable material benefits and served as arenas for formal and informal social interaction.
The generation that's coming up is community-based, less invested in material benefit and comfortable with new technology so art is not going to be immune to their perspective and influence".
The bank said its cost-cutting programme was starting to show a "material benefit" and would help to offset the downturn in investment banking.
Many volunteers experience large fluctuations in remuneration, as project funds dry up; some have to wait months for any material benefit and, worn down by waiting, become disillusioned.
The objective of SERC was to expand weatherization to "materials, benefits, and renewable and domestic energy technologies" that were not currently covered.
One of the strangest products of China's three head-spinning decades of economic growth is the relationship between the country's 350 million or so under-30s — Web-savvy, increasingly outward-looking, accustomed to nonstop growth and the material benefits its brings — and the authoritarian Communist bureaucracy that rules them.
