"There is an issue as to whether this would be material to a reasonable shareholder," he said.
For some novelists, a son with an unnatural predilection for his mother's milk would be material enough for one book, but not so Yan.
The company said in a regulatory filing that the good-will impairment charge would be material, but it could not estimate the amount.
While some clients might note any changes in ratings from Moody's, we don't believe the impact would be material".
It continued, "Accordingly, this presentation may not contain all information that would be material to the evaluation of the merits and risks of purchasing the Notes".
Given the scale of Exelon's coal- and nuclear-plant infrastructure, some of it decades old, Mr. Rowe said, it would be unrealistic to expect that wind or solar power would be material to Exelon's business any time soon.
To be cursed with a fearful heart and a wandering eye would be material enough for most directors, but Lean's movies, though full of alluring women, suggest a man scarcely able to confront his own desires.
"And it also seems to me that these big contracts that the Dewey partners had and weren't getting paid on would be material information to a potential investor," Mr. Stoltman said.
That kind of financial agreement would be material information to a partnership).
From the point of view of the semantics, the N-bar in a definite description would then not be used to identify some individual but would be material that is presupposed in the discourse.
