They saw it imperative to gain total control over the country before devoting power toward its material improvement.

On the other hand, Windows 3.1 was simple to install and offers some material improvements.

We wrote about the problem in March, and there has been no material improvement in the situation since then.

The offer to support hospital finances "offset my ideological concerns when I realized that a material improvement would occur for patients we serve," he said.

Despite the diminishing fishing industry, material improvements are coming fast to Lewis.

Economic reforms have brought material improvements to the lives of the Chinese.

Catholics in the East were ambivalent about material improvement at the cost of religious identity.

These cost reductions freed up sufficient funds to make some material improvements to the design.

The only material improvement, however, is the substitution of a support more suitable to the simplicity of the art.

But stockholders are being enriched at the expense of workers who have enjoyed little material improvement in more than two decades.