Sentence examples for drain on resources from inspiring English sources

In an age where all possible avenues for containing health-related losses must be explored, presenteeism would appear to be one potential drain on resources that might have been underestimated [ 12, 31].

This is a huge drain on resources.

"It's a major drain on resources," Mr. McNaughton said.

Ethiopia, once conquered, became a vast drain on resources.

He says the biggest drain on resources is the need to buy water.

"We haven't been a drain on resources," Mr. Muir of G.M.A.C. said.

The idea that they are a drain on resources is farcical.

After heating costs, running technology is likely to be the second biggest drain on resources, he says.

One sees ageing as an inexorable process of decline, and old people as purely a burden, a drain on resources.

A trade ban would mean that the management or maintenance of a wild population becomes just another drain on resources.

Then there is the disabled person as a drain on resources – as a useless or even devious benefit-scrounger.