material standing

"Well, look at all the material standing here tonight.

In Dakar it is not uncommon to see houses made of recycled materials standing atop a mixture of garbage and sand which serves as a foundation.

The primary aim of the autopsy, conducted in a specially sealed coroner's chamber with emergency personnel skilled in the handling of hazardous materials standing by, was to determine the nature and possible antidote of the substance that caused such a bizarre medical incident.

Various studies showed that improving women's status would result in general societal improvement, but that the reverse was not true (such as the mechanization of agriculture resulting in decreased financial and material standing for farm women because access to new methods was restricted to men).

As the elevator began to descend, Kim turned and, looking up, studied the smooth curve of the Steward's shaven head, the folds of the green cloth covering his back, and wondered briefly whether the man was ever troubled by such thoughts, or whether status and material standing were his only measure of things.

Most of the faults and scarps that transect crater floors clearly delineate crater-filling materials standing at different levels, and in at least two craters (19 S., 31 ; 16 N., 30 ), the traces of the faults on the crater walls indicate that the faults have normal displacements.