Sentence examples for takes a material from inspiring English sources

We soon understand that the violent, absurd act at the beginning of the story is a parallel to the war, and in the magical-realism realm the villagers' pain takes a material form in the concept of grief milk.

Nanogate takes a material to be coated, applies a layer of adhesive nanoparticles and then adds another layer of non-adhesive nanoparticles that bind to the first layer.

Physically, the Deborah number is the ratio of relaxation time characterizing the time it takes a material to adjust to applied stresses or deformations, and the characteristic time scale of an experiment probing the response of the material.

Knowledge always takes a material form, it can never exist by itself, and work is required to maintain and transport it [ 19].

So the staff proposed taking a "material attractiveness approach".

"This will make it easier," he said, "for cable telephony to take a material share in 2004".

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — The chip maker Advanced Micro Devices said Wednesday that it planned to take a material write-down of the value of its 2006 acquisition of ATI Technologies, a costly bet made to compete better in the market for graphics semiconductors.

The letter reads: "Dear Lord Myners "You telephoned me yesterday and asked me to consider voluntarily taking a material reduction in my pension entitlement as a 'gesture' to acknowledge the level of Government support being made available to RBS.

And, while most efforts concentrate on culture change and training, at least one researcher is taking a material approach, using nanotechnology to reduce common lab hazards.

Excess paste layer covering aggregates in cement-based materials is considered taking a material property of the layer thickness in addition to the volume fraction of the aggregates.

Dennett (1987) sums up the issue: "Searle's view, then, comes to this: take a material object (any material object) that does not have the power of causing mental phenomena; you cannot turn it in to an object that does have the power of producing mental phenomena simply by programming it reorganizing the conditional dependencies of transitions between its states".