Poverty is measured by the ability to buy food and satisfy other basic material needs.

None of this material need in my opinion be disclosed to the prisoner.

They were asked to visit each family in the ward, assess their material needs and provide help where possible.

"To answer the world's material needs, technology has to be not only beautiful but also cheap."

It's what we do with the energy that is left over after our material needs are met.

He lists expression of love through words, touch, spending time together, providing material needs and many others.

He had given him a comfortable salary and seen that his material needs were met.

And there are other material needs, like the equipment necessary to keep our science up to date.

What I outline here is a national, or rather international, system for the providing of the material needs of men.

Under conditions of scarcity, men struggle to meet their immediate material needs.