Sentence examples for material serve from inspiring English sources

Now, North Korea is trying to draw the United States back to the negotiating table, where its threats to reactivate its Yongbyon nuclear complex and acquire more bomb material serve as its strongest negotiating tool to obtain humanitarian aid, diplomatic recognition and other rewards.

In summary, mitochondrial peptides present in necrotic tumour material serve as activating ligands for FPR1 on tumour cells.

In the changing rooms, a ragged patchwork of jean material serves as curtains.

As far as its medical use is concerned, knowledge of one material serves for the other.

The fresh material serves mainly to provide enhanced context around the central couple.

A zigzag of gold material serves as a path across the stage.

Phillips' direction is as sharp as it is energetic and faithful to the source material, serving Stoppard beautifully.

Its basic assumption is that literary material, written or oral, assumes certain forms according to the function the material serves within the community which preserves it.

Reduced to common tessera size, bits of this strongly coloured material served as part of the general colour scheme of the mosaic pictures.

Most coaxial cables employ a lightweight polyethylene or wood pulp insulator; although air would be a more effective dielectric, the solid material serves as a mechanical support for the inner conductor.

Michael Radford's 2004 film version of "The Merchant of Venice" (starring Al Pacino) revised the play to elide potentially offensive material, serving up a nicer, more sympathetic Shylock and blunting tough questions about anti-Semitism.