Sentence examples for material sacrifice from inspiring English sources

There has to be physical and material sacrifice.

The Spanish "need to show that they are making a material sacrifice".

Most importantly and disturbingly, as Clive Hamilton has best demonstrated in his seminal work, Requiem for a Species, it expresses the psychological unwillingness of the character type produced within the consumer society to recognise the necessity for material sacrifice and even the existence of limits.

In 1552, the prayer book which the conservative Bishop Stephen Gardiner had approved from his prison cell as being "patient of a Catholic interpretation"—was replaced by a second, much more radical prayer book that altered the service to remove any sense that the Eucharist was a material sacrifice offered to God while keeping the belief that it was a sacrifice of thanksgiving and praise (in word).

With this material sacrifice might be performed at 12 weeks or later, a time span not feasible for the here used membrane with its degradation time of 8 weeks.

American civilians, in turn, had willingly made enormous material sacrifices to sustain the war effort.

Another means of obtaining the instability cherished by the Soviets was by material sacrifices.

If it becomes only possible to become an MP by making material sacrifices, there will be more conviction politicians.

"Japan should be blamed for its actions that irritate neighboring countries while failing to repent for its past, which imposed tremendous human and material sacrifices on those countries," the party said in a statement posted on its Web site.

That does not mean the party needs to repudiate current positions, only that it acknowledge the extent to which green politics is seen by many non-aligned voters as an obsession for the radical fringe – and one that demands onerous material sacrifices from everyone else.

In exchange for their material sacrifices?