How To Use Tangible In A Sentence

Measurement Intangible assets, such as knowledge and learning, account for a large part of a company's value.
Even in the straight world of economics, where production and tangibles were once central, indices of happiness, creativity and other non-material values have taken centre stage.
Products may also be different for less tangible reasons, such as perceived quality enhanced by brand names or advertising slogans. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
All her meanness and prosaicness was forgotten, all her imperfections and shortcomings; it was home, the one tangible thing in the glittering emptiness of the spheres. Gulliver of Mars
In contrast to liberty, equality is an almost intangible romantic dream, to be realized sometime in the future.

And it is precisely this intangible element - a sense of shared values and community - that is the legacy that seems to be the driving force sustaining and vitalizing this collection.
That's because mentors show you the ropes - those that are tangible and intangible.
It takes time to foster a creative work environment and to understand how creativity can bring you tangible benefits. Times, Sunday Times
With its elegiac note of a civilisation falling apart while two old men continue their moves toward checkmate, the story is a luminous exploration of a culture that is both realisable yet tantalisingly intangible.
She has that intangible quality which you might call charisma.
More intangible benefits accrue from the learning process and are missed or under-appreciated by the Air Force; they are often missed even by the graduating student.
In the personal social services, needs are often elusive and intangible, and they are still very controversial. Introduction to Social Administration in Britain
I'm just wondering are there any shorter-term intangibles in there that could roll off in 2009 or 2010 that could bring that number down from $100 million annualized run rate. Undefined
There should be some tangible evidence that the economy is starting to recover.
It was vague, intangible, appeling only to some strange, nameless sixth sense.
As if whatever lurks in your dreams - in your visions - might take tangible form and threaten you. TIME OF THE WOLF
The poem will be etched in the memorial stone - a tangible acknowledgement of the loss of life and accompanying grief, says Appleton.
What is needed now is the delivery of tangible policies for business. Times, Sunday Times
Intangible assets are a firm's nonphysical sources of value, such as its patents, brands, trademarks, copyrights, customer lists and other intellectual capital.
We would do better to say: _more_ is often _better_ , but _most_ is rarely _best_ , especially if we fail to measure everything together, tangible and intangible alike. Who Loses From Efficiency?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
My thoughts cling to the tangible memory of you and your every little gesture and movement like a drowning person clings to their saviour.
I’m sure they still believe they’re the better team, so I don’t think we’ll see any big shift in intangibles in this game. Matthew Yglesias » Predictions
You may find comfort expressing your feelings in a tangible or creative way. Times, Sunday Times
Further, the flavoured and tasteable body is suspended in a liquid matter, and this is tangible. On the Soul
Successful motivation depends on emphasising positive tangible benefits.
The brand belongs to intangible asset of enterprise and has obtained attention more and more.
The factors which, if present, indicate the transfer as a going concern largely relate to intangible assets.
The result is a wilderness of ethereal beauty, teeming with wildlife that regards human beings as curious oddities, and a haunting loneliness that is almost tangible. Times, Sunday Times
Such assets are known as intangible assets in contrast to the physical ones such as plant and machinery. Business Studies Basic Facts
It ignores the cost to family life and the real but intangible benefit of a day free from commercial pressures. Times, Sunday Times
Does the fact that the "product" being advertised isn't necessarily a tangible, buyable sort of product change how we can measure the advertisement?
While his mind had been pursuing its intangible phantoms and turning in irresolution from such pursuit he had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things.
There are things that yards per pass attempt can't quantify: luck, so-called intangibles like leadership, the importance of a quarterback's surrounding cast including a strong defense. It's How Well They Throw the Ball
The real conditions for peace are the heartfelt intangibles of mutual trust and respect. Times, Sunday Times
Given its hazy nature, goodwill is designated as an intangible asset.
But they also have made clear to Pakistani officials they expect tangible results, and they threatened that current cash payments to Pakistan could be reduced if things don't improve in tribal areas such as North Waziristan. U.S. Seeks Wider CIA Role
After the silence grew almost tangible in the room, he cleared his throat, and spoke.
But her narrative gains from the tangible physicality of theatre and gleefully combines eroticism and wit.
The pretax figures don't include intangible amortization costs and rent shortfalls on sublet properties. Henderson Tries to Curb Gartmore Outflows
The scalability of intangibles allows a few large and profitable firms to emerge, leaving the rest lagging behind. Times, Sunday Times
The central point for writing a history of the new woman is that the referent proved conditional, situational yet nonetheless tangible.
Here is a place to start: try calculating the total value of a company's intangible assets.
Income or market approaches need to be used to conduct an evaluation, taking into account a state-owned financial institution's long-term accumulated brand value, network distribution, customer resources, franchising rights, goodwill and other intangible assets. Chinese Official Sheds Light on State Assets
Physical as opposed to intangible assets in businesses in advanced economies such as Ireland's are reducing in importance.
Their only tangible success so far has been to overturn a previous ruling and have the inquests heard by a proper jury. Times, Sunday Times
I am very satisfied with what we have done and can really see some clear and tangible results.
A work that is created (fixed in tangible form for the first time) on or after January 1, 1978, is automatically protected from the moment of its creation and is ordinarily given a term enduring for the author's life plus an additional 70 years after the author's death. Copyright Basics
His own image is usually part of the ensemble, but often appears ghostly and intangible compared with the heavy sparkle of the box itself.
Just hours before he broke the news, a source close to the investigation tells me the suspect's wife came forward with what he calls tangible evidence leading to Laurean. CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2008
Fortunately, this volume does not lose sight of the strangeness of the poetical perspective; neither is it entirely devoted to the tangible and the earthy.
Others such as Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, a NEPAD founding member, say the initiative failed to produce any tangible results since it was launched with great fanfare in 2001. ANC Daily News Briefing
It is intangible, opaque and difficult to understand. Times, Sunday Times
As we near 6pm, the excitement is almost tangible. Archive 2008-02-01
The whole volume constitutes an effort to resolve a problem that must confront anyone who finds the world a deeply affecting yet intangible chimera.
Yet the apparent paradox of associating touch with something that is intangible and impalpable is not as odd as it might seem.
So much residential property near the centre has tangible benefits. Times, Sunday Times
This crusade is unwinnable because she is uncatchable, she is unstoppable because she is intangible.
Like so many things, it's a combination of social reality with a tangible, physical reality.
The silence was an intangible tense feeling in the air.
Yet despite the close relationship between inside and outside, the room barely touches the garden; it is cantilevered over it, suggesting that the relationship is intangible rather than physical.
Sliding behind the futuristic facia there is a tangible feeling of both solidity and comfort.
Training and certification delivers tangible returns while showing employees they are valued. Computing
PaySystems. com can handle either intangible (downloadable) or tangible (shippable) products. How To Accept Credit Cards Without a Merchant Account
These are tangible benefits; just as important is the purchase of new blood. Times, Sunday Times
It's something tangible to show for the quality of their work. The Sun
It isn't a tangible quantity; it can't be measured or gauged.
Diana had often dreamed of the City of London as the seat of magic; and taking the City's contempt for authorcraft and the intangible as, from its point of view, justly founded, she had mixed her dream strangely with an ancient notion of the City's probity. Diana of the Crossways — Complete
The non-monetary assets include such fixed assets as buildings, machines and equipments as well as such intangible assets as patent rights, trademark rights and non-patented technologies.
Because many biotechnology firms do not have any revenues and their assets are usually intangible, the best measure of firm size in this industry is a headcount.
This is the first real tangible example of it. Times, Sunday Times
One could justly add that Spielberg's magic touch is tangible, even if it appears a little unconcerned.
He has the intangibles that often separate one player from another.
We cannot accept his findings without tangible evidence.
Turning to painting in 1907, Feininger began to experiment with formal qualities, namely perspective, while infusing his genre scenes with the same intangible whimsicality evoked in his commercial work dating back to the turn of the century. Alexander Adler: Lyonel Feininger: At The Edge of The World
Accounting estimates are employed in the financial statements to determine reported amounts, including the realisability of certain assets, the useful lives of tangible and intangible assets, income taxes, provisions, pension obligations and impairment of goodwill. Reuters: Press Release
There comes a point in making a new garden when a sudden transformation happens and what was a wasteland becomes a visible, tangible garden.
Interestingly, pressured teachers were more likely to use “controlling” strategies - policing youngsters, offering tangible rewards and providing nonverbal feedback, such as disapproving looks, etc. Vote “Me” for Secretary of Education
These priority projects are real, tangible evidence of the company's work.
She hated do-gooders, those she called the goody-goodies, but her own goodness surrounded her like a tangible, and visible magnetic field. The Satan Bug
Overall, it has an intangible quality that I have difficulty explaining but nonetheless am drawn to.
Items used in the exhibition will include art on loan, from artists’ and personal collections, and tangible evidence of cryptids from cryptozoologists.
For all the children, sport offers a tangible sense of achievement.
Information can be instantiated in tangible property, which is defined as a tangible object ( "ideal object") with boundaries that can be possessed. Tyler on the Problems of Libertarians, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
These are called the tangible fixed assets of the company because they can be seen and touched. Finance for the Non-Financial Manager
But it's rare that you can buy a great financial services franchise for 52% of the company's estimate of its tangible value.
But the film is strikingly bereft of tangible anger, its mood more poignant than incendiary.
It is the only tangible object the astronomer can handle.
It is also one that should produce real and tangible benefits for the higher education sector swiftly. Times, Sunday Times
As evidence of his desire to remove this most tangible of Southern gravamina, Douglas introduced a supplementary fugitive slave bill on Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics
Just as the notion of disposability in the tangible world leads us to create more waste, the ease with which we can both acquire and dispose of digital material creates an environment where the value of digital material is reduced. SOUNDSLOPE
In Act I he stages first an allegorical masque, the chief theme of which is prudent distinction between tangible and intangible wealth or values, then a stately dumbshow of the Rape of Helen at which he himself confuses Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The result is a wilderness of ethereal beauty, teeming with wildlife that regards human beings as curious oddities, and a haunting loneliness that is almost tangible. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe in an effort to offer people something tangible to do, he counselled citizens to prepare for the worst and ensure that every home had its own personal preparedness plan.
If more than 50\% of the partnership's assets consist of intangibles, Schedule NRH is designed to separate joint the gain (or loss) is allocated to Maine based income between spouses and, if the filer is a on the sales factor of the partnership. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
It has tangible positive effects on the physical and emotional health of the doer.
Instead of being sold the unimagined exotic, department stores now sell us tangible sleaze.
My answer is that more than knocking gold down to discourage the bond vigilantes from moving out of bonds into tangibles is involved.
The phrase refers to intangible economic resources of trust and reciprocity, which inhere in social relationships and, it is argued, ground successful transitions to modernity.
We need tangible evidence if we're going to take legal action.
Both companies offer health insurance, share options and performance incentives as more financially tangible perks of the job.
As a society we are far too preoccupied with measuring things in terms of tangible commercial results.
In humiliating contrast, one of China's few tangible rewards involved the set of Qing-dynasty instruments for observing the heavens-among them a Jesuit-designed quadrant, celestial globe and armilla-mentioned above. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
Locke has since then been used to legitimise the creation of new property rights in tangibles and intangibles.
Another intangible factor has to be willpower. Times, Sunday Times
The architect explains that through this project, "the barrack has become the tangible symbol of the internment experience."
He has no tangible evidence of John's guilt.
He withdrew from writing and production for an intangible revolution of mind, untethering his old life and leaving it far behind.
Some share may also have been contributed by the Platonic notion of the "grossness" or "bruteness" of tangible matter, -- a notion which has survived in Christian theology, and which educated men of the present day have by no means universally outgrown. The Unseen World, and Other Essays
Governor Blagojevich's signing of this bill is evidence that making your voice heard can have a tangible effect on the laws that are passed.
But this was about something so much less tangible than cash. Times, Sunday Times
The balance sheet also includes intangible assets of $1.18 billion and long-term debt of $2 billion.
Some of these factors are intangible, and their impact inherently difficult to quantify. NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda
The employer had, therefore, to incur heavy development costs before any net tangible benefits would accrue from the invention.
There is a slight nod, a ghostly intangible feeling of her gloved palm against my cheek, and a sensation of motherly warmth.
There was a tangible sense of fear and distress as they were slipping down the ramp. Times, Sunday Times
Perform a cost-benefit analysis: identify intangible and tangible benefits and costs before putting in the required resources.
I can't make sense out of debate for the sake of debate when more tangible and perceptible issues of our own lives are left unspoken of.
What he found to replace them, it seems, was a profound inner happiness and an almost tangible aura of stillness and calm. Times, Sunday Times
To prevent a potential and significant revenue loss, the bill closes a loophole involving the sale and lease back of intangibles such as trademarks and newspaper mastheads.
They must focus around specific objectives, where sharing and collaboration can deliver tangible business benefits. Times, Sunday Times
The urge to translate her emotions into some tangible piece of artwork made her itch to get pencil to paper.
But, on average, intangible assets now represent about 80 percent of the market value of public companies.
Why does she use intangible phrases along the lines of her father being an Islamist who oppresses her for being a female? Global Voices in English » Egypt: Heba Mohammed Najeeb – between a rock and a hard place
Regardless of workflow, software engineers are all the time working with non-tangible, abstract, and flexible things -- pure mindware.
He was a tall man with grey hair and a long mustache, with an almost tangible aura of power about him that didn't fit the role of a waiter.
The factors which, if present, indicate the transfer as a going concern largely relate to intangible assets.
Victory brought glory as well as more tangible rewards.
He admitted that a winning record was a measure of success, but also said there were other tangibles that should be taken into account.
Was it the promise of the almost tangible chemistry between the two?
The most common intangible fixed asset is goodwill. Finance for the Non-Financial Manager
There is a tangible sense of progress. Times, Sunday Times
He gestured to the space between them, as if their ardor were a tangible entity. Rhapsody In Time
I point this out to establish my credibility in remarking on what I consider to be one of his most seminal intangible traits - his ambition.
Obama's unartfully expressed ideas about the origins of discontent of those who are struggling in our society were used in the context of how to best reach out and make his (Obama's) value proposition tangible to this group. Hillary And Obama Camps Duke It Out Over Her Alleged "Screw 'Em" Comment
But what previous generations would have considered tangible personal prosperity spreads its net ever wider.
After a month of fair words Artois came away in April 1793 with a jewelled sword inscribed With God, for the King but no more tangible support.
The twin pressures of diversity and uniformity are tangible phenomena in the design process.
Do you think there’s a place for certain foundational ideals in progressivism today, or should we stick to tangible insights about efficiency and marginal improvement in the field of social cooperation? Matthew Yglesias » Requests Thread
The Syracuse Orange (they ceased being called the Orangemen in 2004) certainly has all the intangibles required to emerge victorious. Winnipeg Sun
The election of Britain's first Green Party MP would make a tangible difference: on 6 May, every Labour MP would begin nervously to swot up on climate change.
The intangibles, family readiness, morale of troops, those type of things are hard to measure.
So there are tangible benefits from looking more closely at the specifics of this thing called cloud. Computing
It is a remarkable record, made all the more fascinating by the indefinables of the double sculls, where success is born out of technical refinement and also an intangible athletic bond, an ability to row and react with double‑skulled synchronicity. Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins ready to put chemistry to the test
As Northeast Old Industrial Base, Dalian enjoys expanded scope of offset for VAT, and also the favorable policy on accelerated depreciation for fixed assets and intangible assets.
Moreover, their impact is often more obvious and tangible than it was in an earlier era.
The dialectic of display and secrecy essential to Mouride visuality is what gives Serigne Faye's imagorium such tangible impact.
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There is a slight nod, a ghostly intangible feeling of her gloved palm against my cheek, and a sensation of motherly warmth.
Yangcheng pig iron metallurgy process has been identified as a national intangible cultural heritage.
As Northeast Old Industrial Base, Dalian enjoys expanded scope of offset for VAT, and also the favorable policy on accelerated depreciation for fixed assets and intangible assets.
To achieve tangible results, command personnel will also require training in the field of criminology.
After a very short time we all felt a horrible feeling of being watched and an intangible atmosphere of dread and doom.
Afterwards experience comes in play to persuade us that two bodies, situated in the manner above-describ'd, have really such a capacity of receiving body betwixt them, and that there is no obstacle to the conversion of the invisible and intangible distance into one that is visible and tangible. A treatise of human nature
It's emotional, full of intangibles, just as any emotional relationship is. Times, Sunday Times
My thoughts cling to the tangible memory of you and your every little gesture and movement like a drowning person clings to their saviour.
The explanation for varied appreciation rates may boil down to something as intangible as popularity.
There had to be other, more tangible reasons for objecting. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
These are intangible things that we believe are genuine dividends of a good design program.
Sometimes how design improves our lives comes down to elusive, intangible emotions or feelings.
There was soon tangible evidence that a new course was being followed. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
How would a parental dividend affect the economic balance between investment in human capital versus investment in tangible capital?
an intangible feeling of impending disaster
He was the tangible symbol of the Baby Boom, its conceits, its self-absorption, its lack of discipline and failures of responsibility.
In representing American economic interests in the absence of a tangible American presence, Fort Union was a surrogate for federal authority.
His walk shambled, shuffled, and skidded along the tiles, and as he did it he felt the heat of shame rising on the back of his neck in a nearly-tangible red cloud that matched the orange sunrise of his attire.
surrounded by tangible objects
But when the body is discarded its texture becomes intangible.
Experts also use the term "battering and its effects" to describe the mental and emotional state of women who have experienced years of systematic abuse, and a report by the Justice Department lists factors in a woman's reluctance to leave an abusive relationship: "a lack of economic and other tangible resources, fear of retaliation, and emotional attachment. Catherine Epstein: Fairness for Defendants Who Survive Domestic Violence
There are other less tangible signs of improved confidence as well. Times, Sunday Times
Minakakis' passionate, incendiary delivery provided tangible pathos to the band's awe-inspiring but detached musicianship.
For all their efforts, however, the Summit produced few tangible results - it was big on hortatory promises and small on actual commitments.
Senior Editor Gross writes about research, patents, and other intangibles.
‘They see themselves getting stronger,’ he says, explaining that tangibles will fuel continued success.
Folklore has always promoted the aphrodisiac and stomachic properties of vanilla, but it seems that science has made vanilla's benefits more tangible. The Aromatic Allure of Tahitian Vanilla
The so-called problem of allocation, which has bewitched some commentators, does not arise as it does with tangibles such as goods.
She wondered if old dreams could haunt rooms - if, when one left forever the room where she had joyed and suffered and laughed and wept, something of her, intangible and invisible, yet nonetheless real, did not remain behind like a voiceful memory.
I can understand your role in putting a positive spin on what Government is doing in fighting crime, but why is it we are not seeing the tangible results of these moves on the ground?
I value safety and security and tangible assets like property. Times, Sunday Times
If I were to ask you to make a list of words to describe what you understand about human rights, I am going to guess that a majority of you would not have the word "tangible" on the descriptive list. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
There was an eerie feel as tangible traces of lives were evident on some walls and whitewashed away on others. Times, Sunday Times
Here, the cheerful houses of the calm suburbs were as intangible as the dreams of fortune and happiness were to the children of the ghetto.
The minute you walk in, you feel an intangible presence.
This lifting of winter's dreich saturation can be almost tangible. Times, Sunday Times
It consists of digital technologies or intangible assets rather than the heavy plants of the industrial era. Times, Sunday Times
Benefits for hotels • Tangible sales channel for new meeting room business • Cost effective and measureable sales channel • 4 revenue streams, meeting room, food, IT and bedrooms • Opportunity to effectively yield meeting rooms with special offers • Additional marketing tools such as booker rewards • 85\% of hotels who respond first to meeting RFP's win the business ciaran@meetingsbooker. com more stats Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Pride at this Highland showpiece event was tangible in the faces of directors and supporters alike before the game.
The speedscope is not capable of producing a visible, tangible record as is envisaged in the legislation.
These discriminations account for the intangible awareness of mood, and they define the greenness of green and the warmness of warmth.
Any Object we see is Abstract, because it is composed of an infinite number of indefinable, unrecognizable, nonfigurative, shadowy, intangible, imperceptible and undetectable 'points' or 'areas' and all these areas do not, and cannot, allow any human being to perceive them or relate to them in any meaningful manner. Science Blog - Science news straight from the source
It is something tangible to go back and see in future years. Times, Sunday Times
I like the fact that property is tangible and if you need to go and cash it out, you can. Times, Sunday Times
In the absence of more tangible evidence, the argument regarding possible harmful effects on children can be ignored.
There is little evidence of any tangible benefits. Times, Sunday Times
This puts a number on how much of a company's current value is built on that most intangible of intangibles - expectations.
It is often said that the intangible benefit of a university education is to grow up and broaden the mind. Times, Sunday Times
They think the intangibles are the warm and fuzzy part. Make Yourself Unforgettable
It stands to reason then that intangible means not tangible, unable to touch, or impalpable.
Seemingly close, the sound is actually remote, and the distance - not just in epochs, but of space itself - feels sonically tangible.
And I think there are more things in heaven and earth than we can imagine in our philosophy, but it's wrong simply to deny it because it's intangible and we can't touch it.
Maybe one day he will understand that there are real and tangible consequences to mistakes.

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