Sentence examples for formerly productive from inspiring English sources

Joseph Romm, the influential climate blogger, has coined the term "Dust-Bowlification" for the prospect of extended periods of extreme drought in formerly productive agricultural areas.

To be economically sustainable, our redevelopment must also be focused on sustaining our quality of life -- preserving our open space, protecting our drinking water and recycling and reusing formerly productive properties instead of gobbling up our precious few virgin ones.

A dark dynamic in the rising poverty is the near tripling of the long-term unemployed in the past three years, to 1.9 million formerly productive workers who have simply given up looking for jobs in the depressed market.

A 2012 report from Earthworks and MiningWatch Canada asserts that mine waste from Grasberg has "buried over 166 square kilometres of formerly productive forest and wetlands, and fish have largely disappeared".

The bad news is that in all cases studied, reducing solar radiation would also shift global rainfall patterns, potentially drenching some areas and parching formerly productive agricultural land.

When the cattle ranches were founded on the southern Great Plains in the latter part of the 19th century—a development immortalized in the 1948 movie Red River a lot of formerly productive and environmentally stable grassland shifted perilously close to becoming desert.

Spending on new drug research and development is less productive than formerly, Mr. Evans added, while consumer resistance to high drug prices is rising.

The steady decline in casualty rates, the return of formerly mined areas to productive civilian use, and the destruction of tens of millions of these indiscriminate weapons are encouraging.

Businesses big and small should open up their coffers and hire more of the aching-to-be productive middle-aged and formerly middle class.

Bariatric surgery has been shown to dramatically improve these medical conditions, to the extent that formerly obese persons can live more productive and complete lives; no other form of weight control has comparable efficacy.

It seems unfair and even counter-productive then that only formerly abducted persons are eligible for the Amnesty Commission's re-insertion packages intended to help people rebuild their lives.