Sentence examples for a net drain from inspiring English sources

I think the idea that immigrants are a net drain on our economy is false".

Curry is consistently a net drain when he is on the court.

By asserting, rather audaciously, that America's level of military spending is not a "net drain" on the economy, they imply the return on the marginal trillion is positive.

Yet the biggest problem may be that the changes, which Mr zu Guttenberg billed as money-saving, now look as if they will initially be a net drain on the budget.

WILLIAM FINNEGAN: There are reputable studies that back up both sides of this argument — that illegal immigrants are a net drain on the public coffers, that they are net contributors.

Last week, the central bank conducted a net drain of 137 billion renminbi, the biggest weekly net drain since late October, after mopping up a net 6 billion renminbi the week before that.

"...The big news, which was not a headline in the New York Times', was that there is a growing consensus among economists that the gains from immigration are small".... ......For roughly twenty to twenty-five years, immigrants are a net fiscal drain on our society," Richard Freeman, another Harvard professor said.

"...The big news, which was not a headline in the New York Times', was that there is a growing consensus among economists that the gains from immigration are small".... ..For roughly twenty to twenty-five years, immigrants are a net fiscal drain on our society," Richard Freeman, another Harvard professor said.

The news on foreign portfolio investment was equally grim – the net drain from the economy in this period was $1.4 billion, compared to a net inflow of $1.82 billion last year at this time.

"But in doing that he loses the disaffected non-Latino Democrats who aren't Mexican-bashers, but are preoccupied by the overall net drain in services associated with them".

The net drain of energy through tissue removal on single colonies is further increased because corallivorous butterflyfishes typically consume only a small spectrum of available coral species, particularly of the genus Acropora (Alwany et al. 2003; Berumen et al. 2005; Pratchett 2005).