Defense lawyer Terence Lynam had argued that the judge should place more of a limit on the definition by telling jurors that a material statement was one capable of influencing the specific financial institution to which Symington submitted his financial statements.
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Important to this ethos of individualism was a man's construction of a Hidmo as a material statement of his ambition to be someone of consequence in his community, an ambition that could not be expressed through an inherited house which was ( and often still is ) destroyed.
