Sentence examples for material detriment from inspiring English sources

Finally, action can be taken against an employee who "engages in fraud, theft, misappropriation, embezzlement or dishonesty to the material detriment of the company's financial results".

It has always been the case that mobile phone customers would have to pay any outstanding costs of their handset if they cancelled a contract early, unless they cancelled because an unexpected price rise was to their "material detriment".

Their household, fortunately, was interconnected with the rest of the Mahal, and so it felt like his father, two older sisters, and an older brother could always count on the support of their extended family.Sometimes to their material detriment, their father's philosophy emphasized that whatever God intends to deliver to them will somehow be delivered.

"However," Mr Giffin went on, "the precise choice of investment may be influenced by wider social, ethical or environmental considerations, so long as that does not risk material financial detriment to the fund".

The microspheres display a variable density (depending on whether gas or liquid filled) enabling suspension of material without detriment to the desirable surface properties of PhCs.

"We are in the crazy situation that there are economic incentives in place to burn one of our most important raw materials to the detriment of environment and economy," he said.

What's at issue in this story, and what makes it relevant to today's art world, is the overvaluation of the material object, to the detriment of art's spiritual mission.

It has been demonstrated that the plant damage caused by fungus-growing termites stimulates Aspergillus growth (40), suggesting that termites may unintentionally help Aspergillus to spread through plant material, at their potential detriment.

In this paper we address critiques of such deliberation – that it relies on the discursive to the detriment of experiential, material or affective modes of expression – and describe three case studies of participation which emphasise, in different ways, 'material deliberation'.

We recently developed a simple and inexpensive method that complements established bone histomorphometry procedures by enabling the two-dimensional imaging of cancellous bone to be viewed within its three-dimensional context with the marrow tissue in place and without detriment to the material for other histological purposes.

One has to realize that completing the core of such a book collection was in those years difficult, exorbitantly expensive and often to the detriment of other material needs.