The British peer said the UN Relief and Works Agency had only a finite amount of food and other essential supplies, adding: "We were concerned that over time supplies were running out," prompting the agency and other UN agencies to launch an appeal to get more resources into the area.
Had Brody detonated his suicide vest and killed the vice president, the show would have been an indelible, beautifully finite piece of television.
The German chancellor opened her speech to a joint session of the UK parliament in English to drive home her message of Britain's central role in the EU, coupled with a warning that the patience of the EU's other 27 leaders with the UK is finite.
Our own universe has a finite number of jobs, a finite number of educational places and a requirement by the inhabitants to have shelter and food.
It is irresponsible to destroy these habitats in a few years to facilitate the extraction of a finite and highly polluting energy resource".
Fossil fuel being a finite resource, you might assume that proven reserves would shrink each year as we all fill up our cars and heat our homes.
With our finite attention spans, and ever more entities vying desperately for those essential digital clicks, investment in established authors who are "excellent but not a celebrity" risks slipping away.
Merkel made clear at a joint press conference with Cameron that she was prepared to help Britain – while stressing that her patience was finite – as she outlined a framework for the negotiations.
Polyester is better than wool and cotton, for example, which have a big impact on greenhouse gases and consume other finite resources such as water in their production.
The planet's resources are finite and can't be exploited exponentially.
But peer beyond the lazy rhetoric and it is possible to appreciate that, although we might not be the ones caring for patients, we have a crucial part to play in ensuring that a vast organisation faced with rising demand and a finite level of funding uses its resources wisely.
