Sentence examples for asset dead from inspiring English sources

"The Greens party took a taxpayer-funded $6,000 charter boat and plane trip to the Great Barrier Reef yesterday only to declare Queensland's biggest tourism asset dead," it read.

Informal systems of property rights usually make such assets "dead capital", meaning that it is hard to use them as collateral for a loan, which might be used to start a business, for example.

But because of insecure property rights, those assets were dead assets.

So is the idea of asset allocation dead?

"If you have a drought on a hydroelectric dam, your asset is dead," Mr. Connor said.

But thanks to ill-defined property laws, these assets are dead capital.

"Equity is alive, but gold is a dead asset, meaning not growing by itself and not a business that one can run," he says.

They contend even the assets of the dead might be put toward that end, diplomats said.

But if the poor could get formal title to their property, these dead assets would become trillions of dollars in live capital.

He names the area's assets as being "dead center on the island, having good schools and two shopping centers right at the western side of town".

"What they buy are typically assets left for dead or not particularly sought after".