Sentence examples for material wants from inspiring English sources

It would be easy to ridicule General Washington's extraordinary attention to material wants at this moment of hardship.

At the time of his largest paper profit, Mr. Kansas discussed, in a number of interviews, his material condition and his limited material wants.

When Woolf passes through the "garishness and gaudiness" of Oxford Street she sees shopkeepers who compete vigorously to meet our needs and desires, and nothing of the ways in which they create material wants.

And when economists talk of self-interest, they are referring not just to satisfaction of material wants, but to a broader idea of "preferences" that can easily encompass, among other things, the welfare of others.Even when the terms are properly understood, "rational pursuit of self-interest" is a simplifying assumption.

He also wants to spend $70m to house the chronically homeless (who are only 10% of the homeless, but consume half the resources aimed at the problem).John Kerry's campaign focuses less on the moral needs of the poor than on their material wants.

A hauler who wants to fill his truck to the top with heavy material wants a light-bodied truck with a small fuel tank, so he can pile on as much as possible and stay within weight limitations.

By Ian Frazier The makers of a mycelium-based packing material want to make plastics obsolete.

He says the material want experienced in the Soviet Union led to excess, and defines a typical oligarch.

But if the war and its atrocities had to do with material want, we cannot so easily separate ourselves from evil.

Today, the vast majority of Gandhi's countrymen are still living the simple life full of simple misery, malnourishment and material want.

Overwhelmingly, though, greenwashing has succeeded, creating a complacent class of consumer able to justify just about any material want so long as it is "sustainable".