Sentence examples for material expectations from inspiring English sources

"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.

The family unit is shrinking, weighed down by financial and material expectation.

Using carefully facilitated focus groups and in-depth interviews with well-prepared materials, expectations of users were appropriate and that there was no conflict of interest between the role of the user and good study design.

And from the beginning, the abundance of historic material exceeded expectations.

Christina Victor: There are lots of factors involved in "causing" loneliness –psychological factors such as self esteem and personality type are important, but so are life events, material circumstances, expectations of old age, the physical environment..

Geffen eventually learned that he didn't have - and never had had - cancer and returned west in 1980 to establish Geffen Records, scoring platinum after platinum - Aerosmith, Guns n' Roses, Whitesnake, Nirvana - along the way falling out with both Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, suing the latter for producing material below expectations.