Supply is the function of providing the material needs of military forces.
They lived lives of poverty, devoting themselves wholly to the spiritual and material needs of the parishes they served.
Like holy places elsewhere, the city of the popes has a long tradition of caring for both the religious and material needs of devotees.
In interviews, some older priests said their ministry was rooted in a deep understanding of the social and material needs of their congregants.
Aid agencies, stretched to the limit, have focused their limited resources on meeting the material needs of fleeing refugees, blankets, food and shelter.
The social welfare system can answer to material needs of the elders, but when it comes to the spiritual needs, a law like this becomes very necessary".
In his speech, Francis said it wasn't enough for the government to build infrastructure and meet material needs of Sri Lanka's people.
Bernard Kouchner, the chief United Nations administrator in Kosovo, has a hard enough job trying to contain ethnic hatreds, establish the rule of law and provide for the medical, educational and material needs of a war-battered population.
Its insistence that preachers should be interested only in saving souls – a good alibi for neglecting the material needs of the poor – has consistently been contradicted by their complicity in free markets and vocal opposition to abortion and gay rights.
