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Meaning tangible meaning
What does tangible mean?
tangible
Synonyms tangible synonyms
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Topics tangible topics
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Examples tangible examples
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Simple sentences
Trouble is tangible. Happiness can be realized, only when it was stolen from you.
Movie subtitles
Exactly. Although I suspect these men of being guilty I've got to get some tangible evidence.
You realize this is our first piece of really tangible proof?
St Joan, for example, and St Theresa record some visitations of an exceedingly tangible character.
He is no idol, no tangible thing.
I prefer more tangible excitement.
You end up thinking there is something living and tangible even in your dreams and you neglect life, do you see? Reality.
Now, perhaps the thing was real and tangible, but what if it wasn't?
It's nothing tangible.
The prosecution, in fact. has presented in the case of Ernst Janning only one tangible piece of evidence.
Oh, well, I thought you were talking about something more tangible.
He at least was human, tangible.
Compared to that unfathomable way of life, getting my name in a book is at least something tangible.
But we must find something more tangible. Come along.
Finally, something tangible.
Do you realise that this is our first piece of really tangible proof?
Nothing tangible yet, but I'd appreciate it if you'd look into it.
But nazis are tangible, sir.
There is nothing tangible, yet like a terrible premonition it is also frightfully real.
I'm a detective I need tangible clues and up to now I admit I found none.
I'd rather spend my money on more tangible excitement.
SOMETHING TANGIBLE TO GO ON, BUT I DOUBT IT.
The further we go, the surer I am that what we're looking for. is something tangible. Real.
The objects are flooded with a wistful light and yet painted with such a detachment, precision, rigor that makes them almost tangible.
Tangible as words are, that is.
The only tangible asset is a tavern on highway 129.
The prosecution, in fact, has presented in the case of Ernst Janning only one tangible piece of evidence. The Feldenstein case.
But we must find something more tangible.
Nothing is more tangible than this.
But most tangible were the women's meetings held all over England. and the exchanges of information lists of names and organizations.
It's tangible.
What Groenevelt can't or won't see is that Surinam attempts to transcend reality, to actually make the everyday experience tangible.
Tangible, eh?
Maybe I can make my experience tangible, if curiosity gets the better of me.
I took the most tangible part of the text, the description of the castle.
Nothing tangible.
Our thoughts, our visions, our fantasies have a tangible, physical reality.
News and current affairs
Afghans can contribute in a tangible way here by reopening the North-South route connecting the resource rich economies of Central Asia to densely populated India and Pakistan.
Thoughtful leaders recognize that the problem is there and tangible, not to be ignored.
As during those years, many people now formally accept ideological labels but identify with them only as long as such an allegiance to a specific political current has tangible short-term benefits for them.
But it must also be noted that China's carbon dioxide emissions declined notably in 2014, offering what is perhaps the first tangible evidence that the country is making some progress on this front.
And tentative evidence suggests that they are delivering some initial tangible benefits to the euro area's economy.
Surely, they think, economic weakness must be due to something more tangible than a feedback loop.
But, perhaps more than that, Morsi will need tangible achievements on the economic and domestic-security fronts to shore up his legitimacy at home.
The lack of tangible material gains for ordinary Egyptians also fueled public anger.
Most emerging-market borrowers had learned their lesson by the turn of the century, as exchange-rate volatility had made the risks of currency mismatch more tangible.
Governments, too, should think strategically about shifting their spending away from tangible infrastructure like roads and buildings, and toward intangibles like education and research and development.
Likewise, the British government spends markedly more of its budget on such intangibles than on tangible assets.
The IMF's leadership tried to broker a deal over currencies at its April meeting, but without tangible results.
A deadly civil war would surely ensue if the Palestinian Authority seeks to crush Palestinian militants at a time of relentless Israeli attacks and no tangible progress in the peace talks.
If the new strategy fails to produce positive and tangible results within a few months, the steady domestic drumbeat for troop withdrawals will become deafening.
And when one looks more closely at how Chinese responded, both to the unrest in Tibet and the Sichuan earthquake, one sees tangible signs that the Chinese are embracing a greater degree of free speech.
For many years, India was unambiguously on the side of democracy, freedom, and human rights in Burma - and in ways more tangible than the rhetoric of the regime's Western critics.
Self-inflicted austerity has met popular restlessness for more tangible measures to revive economic growth and create jobs.
The government doesn't just spend it, but seems always to favor tangible things like skyscrapers, fancy government buildings, highways, and big industrial projects.
And for one's superiors, tangible projects are the easiest to recognize.
Nothing tangible was causing the depression; the problem, in March 1933, was in people's minds.
The US, which still has significant clout over what happens in El Salvador, would do well to welcome his election and offer him tangible support for key social reforms.
Their recovery is still fragile, but it is real and tangible, and it is providing new hope across the continent.
An indefinite building freeze would lead to the immediate end of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's coalition government in Jerusalem, without giving Israel or Netanyahu anything tangible in return.