Sentence examples for ample stocks of from inspiring English sources
The Union was blessed with ample stocks of medicine, but the Confederates were forced to look for substitutes when the blockade cut off medical supplies from Europe.
But Mr. Herndon, who is now 83 years old, finally gave up, convinced that he could find better weather, less bureaucratic bother and cheaper labor farther south, plus ample stocks of highly prized pink shrimp.
Preston's account, compiled from the many letters, diaries, and memoirs by European survivors of the siege, captures an odd strain of mordant humor -- the awakening of a distinctively 20th-century sense of the absurd -- as 18 Western nationalities crowd into ever-contracting quarters, surviving on horse, pony or mule and rice, washed down with the French Legation's ample stocks of Champagne.
These factors, combined with ample stocks of cents and nickels, made the three-cent nickel, a non-silver coin of odd denomination, less desirable.
It also carries an ample stock of Tastykakes, including hard-to-find Butterscotch Krimpets.
"Contrary to rumors," it said, it had an ample stock of poles and equipment needed to make repairs.
Eighty years later, in the medical room at Halley, the British Antarctic base on the Caird Coast, Gavin Francis finds ample stock of the modern substitutes – body bags and intramuscular injections of antipsychotics (Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins, Chatto & Windus, £16.99).
Close by is a beautiful, modern wine vault with an ample stock of exquisite Italian wines.
A restocking of inventories has helped drive the economy's recovery, but analysts say slowing demand has probably left businesses with ample stocks and they expect the lift from inventories to fade in the second half of the year.
"Ample global stocks of crude and higher production elsewhere mean that geopolitical risks from the Middle East are not as great as they once were," they wrote in a note.
Despite the ample stock, he said that no one would drink until the burial was complete.
