Sentence examples for material worth and from inspiring English sources

It's a product, sure, but it has a meaning beyond its material worth and that's why people are willing to pay big dollars for it.

In his book The Theft of the Jules Rimet Trophy, Martin Atherton writes that the CBF president, Giulite Coutinho, made a nationwide appeal asking all Brazilians to help recover the trophy, saying: "The spiritual value of the cup is far greater than its material worth" and that the thieves had "no feeling of patriotism".

New York, he said, "furnishes the only reading material worth printing" and "I wouldn't change it for anything".

They carried war material worth tens of millions of dollars, and their destruction deprived the Tigers of their traditional means of military resupply just as the Sri Lankan Army ramped up hostilities.

Our society values a human based on their material worth; why then are we surprised when many people define "winning" and "valuable" and "admirable" accordingly?

What was created in the Thatcher years was a culture in which everything and everyone had to be measured by material worth.

They listed this on the books as raw material worth millions of dollars".

My character was a bit wild, and she's got to a point where she hasn't got anything of material worth.

He also spent a great deal of time listening to the output of the final years, hoping to find material worth releasing, but came across little that made the grade.

It is estimated that wood raw material worth of approximately €5 billion is wasted annually in Europe.

What it would suggest, though, is that a good society needs to have ways of rewarding individuals that contribute things of moral, not just material, worth.