Sentence examples for taking a material from inspiring English sources
So the staff proposed taking a "material attractiveness approach".
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.
This is a group that routinely passes on taking a material stand on anything -- up to and including issues of great importance to its most prominent members and founders -- in favor of pushing for silly junk like "bipartisan seating".
Sculpting: Sculpting is the process of taking a material (clay, wood, metal, etc).
"This will make it easier," he said, "for cable telephony to take a material share in 2004".
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.
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.
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.
