Sentence examples for drag on resources from inspiring English sources
Piquantly, a panel in the museum carries the second ghost's riposte to Scrooge and the "wicked cant" that dismisses the poor and vulnerable as an expendable drag on resources: "Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?
It knows that suits against senior executives will often drag on, consume considerable resources, and deprive it of manpower that could be employed elsewhere.
It might drag on till July.
So fighting could drag on for months.
"It did drag on," Redknapp said.
Cases like these can drag on for many years.
That choice was directed by the Pentagon, which insisted on a "light footprint" out of concern that Afghanistan would become a drag on U.S. resources as attention shifted to Iraq (see Iraq War).
They kept us safely codependent with our fellow clan members, assigned us a rank in the pecking order, made sure we all did our chores, discouraged us from offending others, and removed us from this social coil when we became a drag on shared resources.
But when cases like these become a costly drag on public resources, we have to wonder when protections start kicking in for taxpayers.
