The £760,000 budget was paid by sponsors after Prime Minister Clement Attlee declared that a depleted country struggling in the aftermath of World War II should not have to shoulder the burden of the Games, too.
Perhaps a depleted country – one that has sold off all of its assets, and whose bright young people have emigrated – might finally get debt forgiveness; perhaps, having shrivelled into a middle-income economy, Greece might finally be able to get assistance from the World Bank.
But the Bush administration and the 108th Congress invaded an innocent and depleted country.
Perhaps a depleted country -- one that has sold off all of its assets, and whose bright young people have emigrated -- might finally get debt forgiveness; perhaps, having shriveled into a middle-income economy, Greece might finally be able to get assistance from the World Bank.
After the World Health Organization declares a global pandemic phase 5 alert, antimicrobial drug supplies will be quickly depleted as countries scour the global market to build up stocks.
We – and every other generation before us – have depleted the country's natural systems and wildlife.
GDP grew by almost 150% that year.Fast growth in that and other years has depleted the country's natural assets.
Unemployment created by years of drought has significantly depleted the country's agricultural base, particularly in the north-east, causing a mass rural flight to the cities.
Chinese officials have long been wary of trade deficits, after monthly deficits in 1993 and early 1994 depleted the country's foreign exchange reserves.
His spendthrift policies have all but depleted the country's reserves, which ought to be brimming with past windfall profits from oil and gas.
