(a.) Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britain needs to talk about the R-word: racism It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained , those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.
(2) The FT explains: Billions of dollars of intangible assets will enter the gross domestic product of the world’s largest economy in a revision aimed at capturing the changing nature of US output..... At present, R&D counts as a cost of doing business, so the final output of Apple iPads is included in GDP but the research done to create them is not.
(3) The intangible benefits include easy access to health care and time-saving convenience.
(4) The operative technique is described together with its intangible principles, its difficulties and its variants.
(5) Climate change is a notoriously intangible risk for people to grasp.
(6) This paper discusses in qualitative terms these tangible and intangible benefits and the factors that impact their realization and maximization.
(7) Pragmatism may have triumphed once again over idealism on the legislative floor, yet something intangible snapped these past few days in the fevered corridors of Congress.
(8) The EDPRS is not a document that collects dust in ministerial offices nor does it contain vague or intangible commitments.
(9) Sharing a tournament between two countries inevitably reduces the event's cultural identity, an intangible quality that grows more precious in the memory.
(10) Yoga , the mind-body discipline based on ancient Indian philosophy and now practised all over the world, has joined Unesco’s list of intangible world heritage.
(11) There is growing acceptance of the intangible benefits of computerization in the laboratory.
(12) Under federal anti-fraud statute , Harvard law professor John Coates told the site, “it is a federal crime to conspire with anyone, including a foreign government, to ‘deprive another of the intangible right of honest services’.” “That would include fixing a fraudulent election, in my view, within the plain meaning of the statute,” Coates said.
(13) Maybe, for all that this most cocksure of champions has the intangible aura only the sporting gods know, he also needs the love and reassurance of others.
(14) I know the history of the game so I knew how many rings he has won as a coach and how he was a player at Kentucky – and all those other intangibles that go with a great career like he's had.
(15) And since I am pretty determined here to prove that like proponents of Sopa I "don't understand the internet" , can I also wonder about something more intangible?
(16) Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian One travel story we’ve enjoyed from the web this week is Unesco’s “intangible heritage list” , which was brought to our attention by Rough Guides .
(17) The bank, run as a public-private partnership, would have several tasks: developing insurance schemes to underwrite the value of intangible assets, as well as mentoring UK businesses and players in the financial sector, including banks and venture capitalists.
(18) But despite the burgeoning value of intangible assets, most financial institutions don't know how to value them, according to David Martin, an intellectual property expert.
(19) Although Unesco is best known for designating world heritage sites such as the Great Wall of China, the agency also recommends safeguarding the intangible heritage represented by traditions and oral expressions, rituals and festive events, traditional craftsmanship, music, dances and traditional performing arts.
(20) Its estimate of benefits and of 74,000 jobs includes such intangibles as people being employed in local shops to sell sweets to the site's security guards.
Unsubstantial
Definition:
(a.) Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical.
Example Sentences:
(1) A viral aetiology for this group of diseases remains an attractive but unsubstantiated hypothesis.
(2) Although delusion remains one of the basic problems in psychopathology, attempts to understand its pathogenesis have been dominated by unsubstantiated speculation.
(3) Meanwhile, a leading coal industry lobby group, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, dismissed the report as “unsubstantiated scare tactics and hyperbole” and lashed out at Obama for moving ahead on power plant regulations.
(4) "I hope today's report acts as a reminder of the dangers of adopting as fact unsubstantiated conclusions before an investigation of the circumstances is completed."
(5) The wag added the line "these allegations are completely unsubstantiated and have no basis in reality," which was duly tweeted out by the account.
(6) Lady Warsi, chairman of the Conservative party, rejected their calls, saying the basis for the allegations was unsubstantiated rumour.
(7) The former deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, said: “Blaming foreigners and an unsubstantiated European plot for her own government’s shortcomings is more worthy of [Turkish president Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan than Downing Street.” Conservative strategists believe May’s bellicose performance outside No 10 will have played well with voters who are keen to see Britain take an assertive approach to the talks.
(8) Among the issues raised by Blatter in the interview: • An unsubstantiated claim that there was a pre-vote agreement in place that Russia would host the 2018 World Cup and the USA would host the 2022 tournament – which was undone when Platini pressed for Qatar following a meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy and the crown prince of Qatar.
(9) The routine presentation of epidemiologic data by "race" has been challenged as impeding identification of modifiable risk factors and fostering an unsubstantiated belief in the biologic distinctness of the "races."
(10) The response to this criticism is usually a spirited defense of the social worker investigation and data distinguishing false ("fictitious") claims from unsubstantiated cases.
(11) A representative sample of 796 sexual abuse reports from New York State in 1985 was studied to explore factors associated with the decision to substantiate or unsubstantiate these reports.
(12) The assumptions upon which this formulation is based are largely unsubstantiated.
(13) An unsubstantiated suspicion of malpractice without obvious adverse effects should not be revealed to the patient.
(14) 2.13pm GMT He calls the idea that we have lost track of terrorist plotters as a result of these disclosures "shrill and unsubstantiated".
(15) They use tried and tested hydroelectric technology and past criticisms have turned out to be unsubstantiated.
(16) We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of our study in the paper, including the fact that the average benefit was relatively small, but would refute Colquhoun's unsubstantiated suggestion that we "are people committed to acupuncture".
(17) • Pistorius says he approached the bathroom with a gun in an effort to protect Steenkamp and has accused the prosecution of once again using “unsubstantiated allegations” to argue that he murdered Steenkamp.
(18) Based on recent pharmacological and pathophysiological findings, the authors confront still persisting unsubstantiated views with modern ones regarding the duration of action of analgetics, equianalgesic doses, abstention symptoms, development of dependence, tolerance and the use of co-analgetics.
(19) What is clear from this clip is what really outrages Trump and Clinton is not the idea of rape itself, but the idea that the Democratic party is criticizing Trump for being misogynistic while Clinton has a history of unsubstantiated rape accusations.
(20) Unfortunately, many highly-publicized accounts of speculative and unsubstantiated claims have caused undue concern among the general public.