Sentence examples for material gain a from inspiring English sources

That bureaucracy and its operation were the model for the Artha-shastra ("The Science of Material Gain"), a work of political economy similar in tone and scope to Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince.

In the 4th century bc in India, Kautilya, a Brahman believed to have been chief minister to the emperor Chandragupta Maurya, reputedly wrote the Artha-shastra ("The Science of Material Gain"), a book of advice for rulers that has often been compared with Plato's Republic and Machiavelli's much later work The Prince.

300 BCE - Kautilya, also called Chanakya or Vishnugupta (flourished 300 bce) Hindu statesman and philosopher who wrote a classic treatise on polity, Artha-shastra ("The Science of Material Gain"), a compilation of almost everything that had been written in India up to his time regarding artha (property, economics, or material success).

In this study we compared epigenetic alterations between DIPG and GBM with respect to patient age and tumor geographical location using archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded material to gain a better understanding of epigenetic alterations specific to DIPG.

In the presence of even a trace of non-cancer cells there is sufficient material to gain an accurate allele B frequency, however, since this arises solely from non-cancer tissue the Ballele plot appears as normal 2n.

The material gained legitimacy as an art form when the dealer Eugene V. Thaw, a collector of old masters and a major museum benefactor, moved to Santa Fe, N.M., in the late 1980's and began acquiring Indian artifacts.

Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson were in contact during the time a story about murdered girl Milly Dowler was changed to remove references to material gained from phone hacking, a jury has heard.

Chemical companies, which use oil as a raw material, gained as the commodity price of crude oil fell nearly 10percentt.

"We believe the Chinese used those materials to gain an insight into secret stealth technologies," Adm. Davor Domazet-Loso, Croatia's military chief of staff during the Kosovo war, told The A.P. Nighthawks, first put into service in 1983, were the world's first radar-evading stealth fighters, and their radar-absorbent coating theoretically should have made them difficult for the Serbians to detect.

"We believe the Chinese used those materials to gain an insight into secret stealth technologies... and to reverse-engineer them," he said.

"We believe the Chinese used those materials to gain an insight into secret stealth technologies... and to reverse-engineer them," Domazet-Loso said in a telephone interview.