Sentence examples for reliance on material from inspiring English sources

And myriad prescriptions for antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs reflect a widespread tendency to sweat the small stuff, a failure to recognize time-honored sources of happiness, and a reliance on material acquisitions that provide only temporary pleasure.

Philolaus thus accepts the earlier Presocratic reliance on material principles but introduces two radical changes.

In addition to providing a potentially different time perspective on the past, the relatively abundant archaeological traces from about 2.5 million years onward signal our increasing reliance on material culture as a key element of human survival and socialization (Table 1).

Norton believed that the fighting between the men strips away the "fear of pain" and "the reliance on material signifiers of their self-worth", leaving them to experience something valuable.

Consequently, there is considerable reliance on material derived from animals.

Their quandary highlights a challenge facing the growing number of entrepreneurs who have ventured into nanotechnology, a field that gets its name from its reliance on materials so small their dimensions are measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter.

Responses revealed that many GPs and PNs were unaware of the available literature and had a reliance on materials provided by commercial sources.

Notwithstanding such a presence in the modern society, plastics have been little analyzed from a material flow analysis perspective; low recycling rates and a strong reliance on primary material inputs give plastic greatest potentials for closing material loops.

Perhaps as a result of this reliance on existing material, the film dwells far longer on the fall than the rise.

If there is a scuff on Mr. Hammond's mostly spotless reputation, it is over his reliance on the material of his heroes and mentors; he regularly interprets the songs of Bo Diddley, Willie Dixon and Lightnin' Hopkins.

"We take our obligations to human rights seriously and as such we have put strong measures in place to try to ensure that our reliance on sensitive material does not prejudice the right of individuals subject to control orders to a fair trial".