The Chinese, feeling themselves more or less self-sufficient in material matters, had less interest in commerce.
Thankfully, the show is tying in material from later books to make this process less intimidating.
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The super-duper multicoloured backdrop to painted paper plates and crafty filler in material is just not necessary.
But these disruptions do not negate the huge gains in material and political well-being that unification brought about.
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The erosion of those values, which underpin the life and behaviours of Tongans and communities, also result in material poverty.
Anyone who asserts that business is not making a contribution to the well-being of society in material ways is foolish.
Kotkin says that sprawl cities involved in material things drive economic activity.
The one (1)-year limited warranty covers all defects in material and workmanship.
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An increase in material wealth has not diminished many of the social problems associated with the most deprived parts of our society.
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Black holes are known to draw in material - gas and even stars - and to stretch the very fabric of space-time at their edges.
That gaping shortfall in material well-being, the optimists reckon, will eventually drive North Korea to make good with the international community and seek foreign investment.
Regrettably, such characterizations of Iraqi behavior are misleading in material ways.
It is one of the most important indicators of the SNA that displays the final result of the production activity both in material production and non-material services.
The men had apparently requested no autopsy and they had asked not to be buried in state shrouds, but in material brought specially from their family homes.
By paying tithing, Church members show their gratitude to God for their blessings and their resolve to trust in the Lord rather than in material things.
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Might geography explain why some surpass others in material splendor?
The Bush administration has long argued that Iraq is already in material breach, not only of the November resolution, but of many others passed since the 1991 Gulf war.
"But Apple will need to ensure a change in material does not compromise the performance of the device, " he added, noting the infamous " antenna-gate" issue with the iPhone 4.
It is true that there have been immense improvements in material conditions during the past century, but they are quite external and they leave man's fundamental nature no better than it was before.
Anti-business rhetoric, which casts all success as undeserved, and which fails to recognize the improvements in material well-being that result from entrepreneurial success, just drive away talented people and guarantee our economic demise.
Many of the children adopted from Uganda are given a better shot at life overseas - certainly in material terms -- but the speed and ease of the process has many observers worried.
The course of such a war will bring us greater suffering than it has brought to date, and if we are to fight it as we must we will have less in material things.
The ruling Communist Party's mouthpiece, People's Daily, says certain party members and cadres who are as useless as "clay Buddha's" are threatening social stability with their indulgence in material comforts and neglect of official duties.
In this important mortgage-backed securities case, attorneys for the New Jersey Carpenters Vacation Fund allege that misstatements and omissions regarding residential mortgage loans in offering documents relied upon by buyers of certain mortgage-backed securities resulted in material losses.
Aluminum-maker Alcoa, the first of the 30 Dow Jones industrial average components to report first-quarter earnings, recorded sharply higher profits from a year ago on growing global demand for its products in material in commercial construction and aerospace.
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Senators are on notice that New START establishes a Bilateral Consultative Commission (BCC) that can, and surely will, make deals that affect the treaty's terms in material ways - and do so without the Senate's advice or consent.
" Dave Lenny, Greene's lawyer, responded to Tice's demand for an apology in February 2008, saying that "under no circumstances will Mr. Greene either violate the terms of the settlement agreement or lie to any individual that your clients have not engaged in material fraud when it is clear they have.
Worse yet, through practices known as zakat (the tithing to charities required of observant Muslims) and "purification" of funds (the donation to approved charities of proceeds from investments that are "tainted" by interest, speculation, pork or other non-Shariah-compliant activities), SCF's Shariah advisors and their financial industry employers may be involved in material support for terrorism.
He also committed himself to an initiative - clearing the way for Muslims to "fulfill their zakat (tithing for charity) obligations" - that would have the practical effect of giving Brotherhood operatives (whose representatives he insisted be in the audience) more latitude to engage in material support for terrorism and, thereby, wage their "civilization jihad" in and from America.
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