Sentence examples for the material condition from inspiring English sources

For Christian missionaries, medical advances in the 19th century made material healing an important adjunct to the spiritual work of evangelists; no doubt, tangible improvements in the material condition of the people also assisted the spiritual "healing" required in the conversion of the heathen; and the importance of the human often took precedence over a theoretical religious "mission".

Eliot Brenner, an N.R.C. spokesman, said in an e-mail that the agency had also made several changes to its guidelines after the Byron case, including provisions that require inspectors to "tour areas that become accessible on an infrequent basis to assess the material condition and status of safety systems, structures, and components".

In the short term I expect China to do better than India in improving the material condition of its people, primarily because China has more money to spend on redistribution projects and because its infrastructure and administrative capacity are somewhat better.

Feminist philosophy of law identifies the pervasive influence of patriarchy on legal structures, demonstrates its effects on the material condition of women and girls, and develops reforms to correct gender injustice, exploitation, or restriction.

Knowledge transformation is shown to be historical in that knowledge is based on material condition at a certain moment and therefore is subject to change due to contradictions in the material condition.

Force vs penetration depth curves obtained from instrumented indentation reveal that the indentation stiffness depends on the material condition (i.e. poled vs unpoled) and the type of indentor (i.e. electrically conducting vs insulating).

The shot reflects the material conditions of the shoot.

Those neoliberal reforms restructured the material conditions of social life in the UK.

"My intention was to show the material conditions out of which ideas emerge," Ms. Taylor said.

Today, the material conditions that sustained Fife's pit villages – and its communists – are gone.

For us, traditionally, ideologies are defined by the material conditions of production.