We considered that mechanisms are not the resources or tangibles offered by an intervention (intervention inputs), nor modalities of the intervention.
One visitor, lacking anything more tangible to offer up, has left behind one of his socks.
For the governing Congress Party, the new ordinance fulfills a campaign pledge made by Mrs. Gandhi and provides her party with something tangible to offer voters as the country prepares for national elections next year.
And even if the volunteers themselves exceed expectations, it's worth remembering that, unlike unions or City Halls, this new kind of machine has nothing tangible to offer to voters -- no jobs or wage increases.
That is perhaps fine as an exercise in brinksmanship, but if a tangible Iranian offer encompassing a 20% enrichment freeze and enhanced International Atomic Energy Agency inspection is floated, then Europe will have to choose.
But, as George Bush's former political adviser Karl Rove once said, "if you are explaining, you are losing" and ministers also accept that they too need to have something tangible to offer energy consumers.
The key to making climate an issue everyone cares about, climate policy experts say, is to connect it to people's lives make it tangible and offer a positive vision of the future to the public.
"There have been no tangible steps offered to us".
At the original Olympics, more than 2,500 years ago, an olive wreath was the sole tangible reward offered to champion runners and wrestlers.
The next night, wanting to give the American people something more tangible, John Kerry offered his own pledge, one intended as the ticket's new slogan: "Help is on the way".
The tangible services offered by incubators and funding can explain the differences.
