Sentences with phrase «than material wealth»

But drawbacks aside, all these types of waves can offer excellent surf, and as any dedicated surfer will tell you, the rewards of surfing are worth more than material wealth.

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This wealth of educational material is an incredible resource, but it's also quite a different way to learn than the traditional classroom instruction many of us grew up with.
I was more ashamed of my Goodwill clothes than of not speaking English when I first came to America, because I knew that one day I would speak English well, but I did not know whether I would ever have what other people had — the material wealth that made them happy.
In fact, more often than not, evangelicals seem to regard material wealth as a blessing from God.
But though he gave up his claim to conscience, he by no means gave up his claim to material wealth; Homo Sovieticus was on average much poorer than Western man, but certainly no less consumption - oriented.
Not only were more people in the churches, there was also greater financial material wealth in them than ever before.
That means the typical American has more material wealth than 96 percent of the world's people.
Blue Labour talks about family and friendships at the heart of society, rather than just material wealth; it also offers a very strong critique of the free market as well as the big state.
The thinking here is that certain demographic groups are having a more material wealth and higher social status than others.
«Deep Water» raises the bar higher than the likes of «Touching the Void» by it's sheer wealth of contemporary footage and audio material.
It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.
The life of a society consists of more than moving resources around, and what happens in that vital space between the individual and the government is at least as much a matter of character formation as of material provision and wealth creation.
In this edition you'll find a wealth of new materials to support your teaching, including more than 200 readings, maps, historical photographs, visual essays, as well as video and lesson plan recommendations.
Specifically, a wealth of children and young adult content intended for the full - color touch screens has made it more possible than ever to find engaging digital material to entertain and educate young readers, while providing a tactile and technology - based learning experience.
Real wealth is more than a number, a status, or some level of material achievement.
They in true Shakespearean ideology, are earnings their riches through travel and experience rather than amassing material wealth.
Each of these elements works together to create a game wherein gamers experience not just the material aspect of poverty, but also the pace of it, the intense need to quickly figure something out, the dwindling of wealth and resources faster than you expected, and faster than you can handle.
Along with the museum's current holdings of art works, a wealth of archival materials relating to Glackens will be housed in the Research Collection and Study Center: seventy - seven of his sketchbooks; more than one thousand photographs spanning his life, institutional records, correspondence, exhibition reviews, and unpublished research.
Greens have argued for some time that there are better ways to measure progress than GDP growth, for instance by redistributing wealth within an economy limited by environmental regulations and improving measures of «subjective wellbeing», rather than expecting growth to deliver marginal material improvements at the bottom.
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