Mr. DREHER: Well, I'll tell you, the reason that we have Lent, such an austere Lent, is to remind us that, you know, we aren't slaves to our appetite, that we should subordinate our material needs and our physical appetites to higher spiritual principles.

NPR: For Spring, an Attempt to Forgo Meat

It identifies the conditions that need to be in place before organized returns begin, such as the physical, material and legal safety and well-being of the returnees.

CNN: UNHCR focus on returning Iraqis

The real winners of the global economy have turned out to be not the creative types or the data junkies, but the material boys: countries, states and companies that have perfected the art of physical production in agriculture, energy and, remarkably, manufacturing.

FORBES: The Real Winners Of The Global Economy: The Material Boys

With material prosperity less dependent upon physical materials, wealth exploded in the industrial countries and spread to most of the poorer countries.

FORBES: Steel Versus Silicon

The classroom, typically a local education centre, is equipped with a television, a DVD player, a set of television lessons, a political and physical map of Uruguay, a planisphere, primers and complementary teaching material provided by MIDES or through private donations.

UNESCO: Country Profile: Uruguay

This massively increases their surface area and hence the charge they can hold, but without impairing the physical strength of the material.

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