As for gifts, she suggests giving thoughtful acts and memorable experiences rather than material things.
These days I see America identified more and more with material things, less and less with spiritual standards.
They have access to material things that most people can only dream of.
Kotkin says that sprawl cities involved in material things drive economic activity.
In Africa, success means making the best of what you have and not necessarily having the best material things in the world.
Some people ask for material things and have those wishes granted.
What Americans cite as their most important values are faith, family, meaningful work, giving back to the community, and of course, the material things in life.
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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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 apples and the people and the houses are all similar insofar as they share in the form of two-ness, which exists independently of material things to exist in pairs or human minds to think about them.
Very often, the biggest gamble in life comes in the working environment -- deciding when to stick and when to twist, when to realise that our own contentedness is determined not by the material things that we surround ourselves with but by the things that money can't buy, such as family.
It is like a huge, real-time confidence poll of all things material.
Instead of bashing, bending and cutting material the way it always has been, 3D printers build things by depositing material, layer by layer.
Your readers will let you know in a hurry, both in the number of reads and shares of your material and in the things they say in response.
Material safety includes access to things like potable water, food and health services while legal safety includes redress for human rights violations, non-discrimination, and unhindered access to justice.
Lathes are used to fabricate things by the selective removal of material.
Things are really looking up for the material boys here in North America.
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What a transformation for a company remembered among investors for its very cyclical profits and among environmentalists for things like their least-favorite packaging material, Styrofoam.
What a transformation for a company that's remembered by investors for its very cyclical profits and by environmentalists for things like their least-favorite packaging material, Styrofoam.
"The truth of the situation is, on the grand scale of things, Dennis' wages aren't material, " he said.
The third mistake was that, because the workers were allowed to bypass the time-consuming mixing process in the tower, with its automatic controls for preventing such things happening, they were free to dump their material into a vessel that was not designed to prevent the accumulation of a critical mass sufficient to support a chain reaction.
But the authors are persuasive that some things can be done just as well with less fuel or material: drip irrigation, for example, superwindows, innovative cooling and ventilation systems, integrated fish management, and economic incentives that reward efficiency rather than waste.
The technique used by Green and Hollister is part of a burgeoning field called regenerative medicine, which involves engineering therapies -- using things like stem cells, or "body parts" constructed out of biological material -- to harness the body's ability to heal itself.
The material needs that are fulfilled by good brands are only excuses to play language games that picture things, not as they are, but as they ought to be.
"Before you had to hunt for things through friends or contacts, " Hernan Mayor explains, as he loads roofing material onto the back of his bike at The Wonder builders yard.
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One of the first things to come out of the IRS this year is this little item touting its social meda material.
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