Sentence examples for finite money from inspiring English sources

The popular Netflix series, House of Cards, perpetuated the myth of a finite money supply with this weekend's release of Season 3. In the opening episode, newly ascendent President Underwood presents his plan to create 10 million jobs in an FDR-New Deal type jobs program (good), but proposes to pay for the half trillion dollar program by slashing Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.

While living here, I have been repeatedly asked by people from all over the world why the human race would invest its precious and finite resources (money) into space exploration?

"I wanted to transform oil wells pumping oil for a finite period into money wells pumping money for infinity," wrote Jay Hammond, Alaska's governor at the time.

But the congressional leadership is saying, We have a finite amount of money and we have the opportunity to take back the House in 2006, so give us that money and we'll pour it into Ohio, or Florida — into congressional districts that we think we have a chance of turning.

"It's a finite pool of money," he said.

"The party has a finite amount of money," one national official said.

"People don't understand that attention is a finite resource, like money," she said.

The finite sums of money available are likely to mean that not everyone can be compensated.

This brings with it issues about how local NHS organisations manage their resources from a finite pot of money.

In part, by recognising that the NHS, like any other employer, has a finite amount of money and needs to balance its books.

I accept that we have finite amount of money and cannot fund everything – no matter how heart-wrenching a patient's experience.