They were therefore not prepared, mentally or materially, to exploit it by a rapid offensive into Germany itself.
Mentally and materially it is a retreat from the world, not an engagement – as much a prison as a liberation.
And yet it is also true that as the emotional urgency of Sept. 11 receded like a huge wave, it left behind an altered landscape here on Chalfont Drive, both mentally and materially.
He has selected the poorest among the poor of Bangladesh as the focus of his experiment: the most shackled, most mentally and materially denied group of people in this overwhelmingly Muslim country - its women.
At 26, he has probably peaked, mentally, physically and materially.
We can infer then that happiness is enabled by an ability to create at will what we need, mentally, emotionally and materially.
"The victim of a totally unsighted and ludicrous experiment in education, the result of which was to harm materially and mentally the guinea pigs". McDermid is much more sanguine, although she admits that it was a pressurised environment.
Socrates' retort points up Lysias' presuppositions: Love is a kind of sickness, an irrational craving for the pleasures of the body; such a lover tries to dominate and enslave the beloved physically, materially and mentally, and most importantly to deprive him of philosophy.
For Zuckerman, moreover, it complemented his prior analytical containment of the consequences of bombing: the effects of total war were neither materially nor mentally as devastating as had been feared.
It goes without saying that neither of these steps would materially alter the ability of criminals and mentally unstable individuals to acquire firearms.
