Sentence examples for material wherewithal from inspiring English sources

"He showed us that we could have the material wherewithal to support our families".

The first involves "material wherewithal" - personal presentation, body maintenance and setting maintenance (finding a place to live and fixing it up).

Chaplin was perhaps the only star in Hollywood who could dare to plan a new silent, and, luckily, he had the material wherewithal to do so.

In both cases, it is the motherland that provides all the war material and wherewithal to prosecute their wars of aggression.

Poor countries with weak institutions rocked by calamity may lack the material resources and organisational wherewithal to get back to the status quo ante, in which case the disaster is likely to have profoundly negative long-term effects.

Nor did he have (for all the shockingly mendacious propaganda) the wherewithal for acquiring such material.

Command systems thereby acquire the wherewithal to change the conditions of material existence in far-reaching ways.

The money will provide Joshua with the wherewithal to tour Europe to get material for a novel, allow Amos to go to Harvard Law School and leave Dan alone with Lydie on Nantucket.

At that time, the University of Texas was the only institution that had the wherewithal to pay to have the material catalogued, re-housed in acid-free boxes and made available.

At the heart of Conservative attitudes to poverty lies the belief that it is psychological, not material: people live in poverty because they don't have the personal wherewithal to find a job, aspire to a better paid job, and mismanage their own money.

They erected improvised dwellings together on  inhospitable volcanic rock south of the city using whatever materials were available, adding to and adapting their homes according to need and wherewithal.