Sentence examples for not a tangible from inspiring English sources

It's a state of mind, not a tangible enemy.

However, culture is not a tangible thing that can be taken down from a shelf and inspected.

Goldman's trading system, he argued, was built for internal use and was not a tangible item of property distributed and used by the commercial public.

The psychometric reality, however, is that learning cannot be measured as a precise quantity because it is not a tangible thing.

He was given a two-year ban from competition, a sanction that brought shame, if not a tangible penalty, because by then his running career was over.

Unfortunately, such knowledge is not a tangible and measurable entity, and thus until there is another shift in the vagaries of the job market, I fear that the trend will continue.

In our publish-or-perish academic world, there isn't a tangible reward for building such a community, but we ignore it at our peril.

HSBC, a British bank, calculates that if exports to China and commodity prices had both remained at 2002 levels, Brazil's trade surplus would have been $19 billion last year rather than $25 billion—a tangible but not drastic difference.

And art that does not have a tangible value is just too abstract.

"It's not just a tangible return, but an intangible one," said Craig Settles, a consultant who advises municipalities on how to build wireless networks.

Though it may not be a tangible product of global warming, the rain has still shown the U.S.T.A. was belatedly pursuing a retractable roof after failing to do so when Ashe Stadium was built for the 1997 Open.