This tension, between the force of the material world and the will of the imagination, lies at the centre of this book.
One of the reasons the Nobel physics committee, and now much of the world, is fascinated by the material known as graphene is on account of its possible role as the successor to silicon in new generations of electronic devices.
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In this period, many religious radicals claimed that the Church, along with the rest of the material world, was evil.
The filters "world reduce the amount of radioactive material released into the environment" in a severe nuclear accident, Boxer wrote in a letter signed by 11 fellow Democrats.
As the images submitted may often be used by the Memory of the World Secretariat in publicity material, an authorization for their reuse for non-profit purposes should also be included.
Prof Knowlson's friendship with Beckett has also created a rich and unexpected legacy for his university, the University of Reading, which now holds the biggest archive of Beckett-related material in the world.
My last conversation with Adrian Bejan ended on the notion that if design in nature is a universal principle of the material world, then freedom is the key variable that determines how efficiently designs can evolve over time.
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As most of the developing world eschews the socialist model to embrace market capitalism, America rids the world of arch-terrorists and spreads material benefit to a widening global populace.
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Mr Sanderson explained that with much of public life having migrated to the online world, material that is now published physically gives only a part of the story and debate within modern Britain.
It's this vivid blurring of the real and the imaginary, the material world and the spiritual, that's at the heart of Cameron's movie.
Plato believed that the first four corresponded to the elements of which the Greeks thought the material world was composed: fire, air, water and earth.
Some greens worry that the energy used to send a boatload of material for recycling across the world is not justified by savings at the other end.
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Reason lets human beings participate in life, to be human is to think, appraise, and explore the world, discovering new sources of material and spiritual pleasure.
Members of DrinkOrDie, the oldest and largest international software-piracy ring in cyberspace, illegally copied and distributed thousands of copies of copyrighted material throughout the world.
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In Africa, success means making the best of what you have and not necessarily having the best material things in the world.
It even lacks the near-mandatory matching website for updated material and hypertext links to the vastness of the wider information world.
The group is supported by many of the world's largest internet companies who rely on it to filter unwanted material.
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As Blue Note's business began to grow, he and Wolff realized that they had to have a regular turnover of new material if the label was going to keep its place in the newly expanding world of jazz microgroove records.
The material belonged to some of the world's leading climate scientists and caused them difficulty just before the major United Nations Copenhagen summit on climate change.
"The Islamic countries in the world and particularly the member states of the Islamic Conference are obliged to provide the Muslims in Chechnya with spiritual and material support, " it said.
This public domain material is an important part of the world's heritage and we're proud to be working with the British Library to open it up to millions of people in the UK and abroad.
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The FBI grew alarmed about crop-dusters after a crop-dusting manual was discovered among the belongings of a man now being held as a material witness in the investigation into the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
He later doubled back with supplemental material that rooted The Hobbit in the broader world of LOTR.
By leveraging Newport Media's advanced OFDM baseband and RF CMOS technology, the NMC1000 offers levels of performance, power consumption, and external bill of material (BOM) typically associated with the world's leading connectivity solutions providers.
'Therefore we appeal to all forms of media throughout the world to appreciate fully that publishing such material causes great hurt to us, our father, our mother's family and all those who so loved and respected her.
There is no scarcity in the Islamic world, rather there is an abundance of natural resources, material reserves and wealth, but how great a tragedy it is that a major portion of their wealth is utilized by the enemies through deposits in foreign banks, or spent in extravagance, debauchery, undue luxuries, and immoralities.
We actually got a Guinness Book of World Records for developing this lightest solid material in the world.
These centre on measures of literacy, understood in the widest sense as the ability to use different kinds of written material to perform real-world tasks of varying complexity.
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For the Arab world as a whole, all of this has added up to a bitter material and psychological defeat, one that continues to retard its emergence into modernity and to sour its relations with the West.
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