Sentence examples for drain upon from inspiring English sources

The maximum tax on his salary is 60%, whereas that on Mr Edwardes's is 83%.(c) Unfortunately, there is evidence here of the drain upon our engineering and managerial resources produced by the poor relative financial rewards in British industry.

Professor J.C. Ewart and colleagues reported in 1888, "The result appears to be a drain upon the supply of fish from the inshore waters sufficient, even without trawling, to cause diminution" [29].

Most importantly they reinforce reciprocal family ties, changing the perspective from one in which older people are seen as a dependent drain upon household resources to one in which they can be properly valued for their non-economic as well as their economic contributions.

Those who are unhealthy must be seen as more than drains upon our taxes but instead as peers that, but for good fortune, might have been us.

Our results reveal the modification of the energy bandgap, carrier density, and drain current upon strain.

The investigated OFETs are sensitive to ambient atmosphere, showing reversible increase of the source to drain current upon exposition to air, what can be explained as doping of TTF derivative by oxygen or moisture.

Participation of the concerned QW in drain current conduction depends upon the magnitude of the band offsets and polarization effects of the materials.

Possibly wounded in the shootout, Libya's former ruler crawled into a drain; later he was set upon by revolutionary fighters, one of whom beat him with a shoe.

Upon liner delivery, drain pool.

Spoon out the crisps and lay upon some paper to drain.

She touched only briefly upon the recent "brain drain" as a problem, and promised stipends for young Polish scientists.