Sentence examples for consuming capital from inspiring English sources

The U.S. was consuming capital like it was going out of sight.

But someone with a million dollars in the bank would soon be consuming capital to keep up with expenses, leaving little for themselves or their heirs.

Fierce debates over how to spur the economy, and how far to go in taking care of unemployed people, are consuming Washington and state capitals.

This is particularly true, since the United States Commission on National Security-21st Century, of which we were co-chairmen, reported in January 2001: "Americans are living off the economic and security benefits of the last three generations' investment in science and education, but we are now consuming our capital.

Foresight practice is regarded as a time-consuming, capital- and labour-intensive organizational innovation that might (or might not) pay off in the long-term.

Such a system tends to be highly destructive, consuming massive natural capital and energy, which return into the environment as waste, requiring even more natural capital to be consumed in order to feed the system (Pongracz 2002).

Some cuts probably are needed, as well as some tax rises, but consuming our public capital to get us out of a mainly short-term public finance crisis would be an absurd over-reaction.

And the economy is consuming more and more capital.

Hanover's effort to support the prices of these stocks in the face of a wave of selling was consuming the firm's capital at a rapid pace.

When GM and Ford were losing billions of dollars a year, and consuming vast amounts of capital, they weren't really creating any value for the US economy.

The "Impeach Obama" drama that is consuming the nation's capital this week is instructive.