Sentence examples for economic drains from inspiring English sources

In cities, in particular, abandoned brownfields — the legacy of inefficient development practices — act as major economic drains.

Of course, the economic drain was not because of Robinson.

Laid-off school workers become an economic drain instead of a positive force.

It's an economic drain on governments with already badly depleted budgets.

There are some 800,000 foreign drivers in the kingdom, and the roughly $350 monthly salary needed to hire one is considered an economic drain on the middle class.

But no one thinks a swift victory will turn the economy around: indeed, the net effect of war could be a further economic drain.

Nevertheless this impression of refugees as an economic drain on the host community – as people who take but don't give – is a depressingly common one.

In a world where the cost of coolth is a significant economic drain (industrial cooling consumes 7% of the electricity generated within the European Union) that offers a worthwhile gain.

Under the mayor's budget proposal, all recycling of metal, glass and plastic would be halted for 18 months beginning this summer because that part of the sanitation system has become an economic drain that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg says New York cannot afford.

The most informative was Professor Andrew Zimbalist, author of Circus Maximus, a study on the economic drain the Games historically have put on their host cities. Zimbalist challenged many of Boston 2024's arguments.

We know that Spanish soccer has to suffer some of the economic drain that is troubling the whole world, and that these are perilous times when the clubs of La Liga are in debt to the tax authority to the tune of €750 million, about $960 million.