Sentence examples for valued material from inspiring English sources

Plastic-bag recycling rates remain low and in most normal schemes carrier bags are likely to be a contaminant rather than a valued material stream.

We found that even when we held constant the amount of leisure time and money respondents had (as well as their age, gender, marital status, parental status and the extent to which they valued material possessions), the people who chose time over money were still happier.

By using suitably valued material parameters in the constitutive model, we show that the output obtained from our finite-element simulations are able to accurately match the experimental strain-temperature cycling data for a ternary high-temperature shape memory alloy (Ti-Ni-Pd) under various applied stresses.

Camphor (C10H16O) is a valued material in biotechnology and nanotechnology research, and it was first reported that CNTs could be synthesised using camphor in 2001.

In Mesoamerica, the Aztec empire promoted a militaristic state ideology and developed extensive trade networks to secure valued materials, including obsidian and exotic and symbolically powerful materials such as the shimmering, iridescent feathers of the quetzal bird.

This seminar (which meets twice weekly) introduces students to the art of the Aztec Empire (1428-1521 CE) through the lens of the production of art from valued materials.

Third, women and men may hold different value systems: Some women may value material rewards less than men in general.

Previous research has shown that people value "experiences" like vacations and fancy meals more than they value material goods like cars and clothes.

He values material goods only so far as they serve this end.

Growing inequality has been fueled by the capitalist system and a society that values material wealth above all else.

What I was pleasantly surprised to find in the MetLife study was that relationships are greatly valued over material possessions.