"material expectation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a concrete expectation, that is, an expectation that can be followed up and objectively verified. For example, "The company's material expectation was to increase profit by 10% over the next quarter."
"They don't have the same material expectations".
They also live in an era of heightened material expectations.
Researchers and pollsters reported rising material expectations, sharper acquisitive instincts and increased presumptions of personal economic security.
"But there are also more material expectations in the sectors of trade, investment, energy and defence cooperation," he added.
His alternative, an intelligent, socially responsible, nonideological localism — essentially a readjustment downward of material expectations and therefore of our "hyperindividualistic" economic metabolisms — "might better provide goods like time and security that we're short of".
He believes today's students have higher material expectations than when he was at university and, at the same time, they are paying for courses that previous generations got for free.
While those of us who choose the more uncertain path must be prepared to adjust our material expectations, I still wouldn't trade places with those who made the other choice.
But the exterior sheen conceals a growing sense of anomie, compounded by swelling unemployment and material expectations fed by rising educational standards.Ezzeddine Larbi, a former World Bank economist who left the country to live abroad, found that unflattering economic statistics were routinely suppressed or massaged.
But if the pebble-bed approach works as advertised, and proves cost effective, China hopes it can eventually adopt the technology on a broad scale to make nuclear power safer and more feasible as it deals with the world's fastest growing economy and the material expectations of its 1.3 billion people.
A fundamentalist consumer culture: 1. Creates increasing material expectations.
