Some recent studies have drawn attention to these common material circumstances.

The material circumstances of life for most students in China failed to improve as economic reforms were extended and strengthened.

But you cannot measure the depth of Hubbell's fall simply by the change in his material circumstances.

In other words, their alliances may be simply the produce of shared material circumstances.

The external circumstances, the material circumstances, of that story are often beyond our control, but they may matter less than we think.

However, material circumstances on their own do not account fully for changes in co-residence.

It is frightening, a triumph of the will over material circumstances.

The external circumstances, the material circumstances, of that story are often beyond our control.

Ten years later he moved to Paris and lived there until his death, working indefatigably to the last in the most difficult material circumstances.

This applies particularly to services working with families receiving state assistance due to difficult material circumstances.