Sentence examples for material endowments from inspiring English sources

Focuses on conceptualizing and measuring state power; and on the range of political, economic, and social explanations that account for variation, including the role of technology, war, material endowments, geography, trust, ethnic diversity, and democratic regimes.

"I arrived this morning, and I am going to fly back tonight, after this," said Pinchuk, who wore an impeccable dark suit and a white shirt open at the collar, and who was looking as fresh after such travels as only a man of his material endowments can.

The model identifies nine production/investment sectors in each region producing nine commodities (Table 1), one representative household in each region, one government in each region, and a single foreign area that trades with each domestic region.5 Each industry uses two local primary factors (capital and labor) to produce along with regional material endowments.

Also, primary energy resources dominate the nation's industrial raw material endowment.

While primary focus is on currently-published material, endowment funding levels also support an active, systematic, ongoing effort to acquire older and out-of-print titles particularly in Norwegian to continue building the collection's depth, filling gaps and meeting new research and teaching needs.

Some will survive depending on varied factors, especially those relating to social capital and material endowment, while others will collapse.

Other materials include inscriptions recording endowments (particularly common in the south), and family histories such as the panji in eastern India (like the Vidvanmodatarangi by Ciranjiva Bhattacarya, Kaviraj 1982 88)or Sankara Bhatta's poem on his scholarly family of seventeenth-century Varanasi (Gadhivamsanuvarnanam).

Either method adds material risk to an endowment because even relatively modest losses are amplified, often greatly, by leverage.

Human endeavour and organizational change alone will not compensate for deficiencies in natural endowments and the material inputs of modern agriculture.

The Law Library's collection is rich in legal history and common law material and through the Robbins endowment has one of the finest collections of comparative law, international and human rights law and civil law in the world.

Programme managers were interested in exploring career paths and innovative financing schemes for CHWs, such as endowment funds or material sales, to heighten local ownership and sustainability of programmes.