Sentence examples for lost resource from inspiring English sources

Rogerson has his doubts: "When such materials are exported, the energy recovered from the waste does not contribute to UK renewable energy targets and is therefore effectively a lost resource".

Third, the artisanal/subsistence fisheries in the developing world have lost resource ownership - a Philippine fisherman loses the rewards of good resource stewardship to outsiders.

However, the loss of trees led by the invasive insect represents a lost resource that naturally moderates urban temperatures and improves air quality by absorbing pollutants such as particulate matter, ozone, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide.

Lending and debt repayments also led to lost resources.

"When you compare these lost resources to the size of the economies, it's a huge proportion of their income that they're losing".

Mayor Bloomberg said the Police Department was a "shining example of how to do more with less," noting that crime has continued to go down even as the department has lost resources and manpower.

Other than that we typically see a shift at 2 or 3am from what I call happy drunk to nasty drunk and that becomes very challenging because we will have lost resources as we've been making arrests and dealing with victims, and we're managing people who have become more vulnerable and more aggressive.

A report, State of Finance for Developing Countries, published on Thursday by the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad), said lost resources – money that should have been invested but instead left the country – accounted for more than 10% of gross domestic product (GDP) for developing countries since the 2008 financial crash.

Offsetting involves compensating for one set of lost resources by investing in another, preferably of equivalent type, extent and value.

The effects of this neglect include unnecessarily lost resources, increased adverse impact on biological processes, disruption of infrastructure, greater risks of flooding and distribution of vermin and pests, and the deterioration of air quality.

We may have lost resources in those failed efforts, and naive journalists may have poked fun at them, but without the attempts, we would not eventually have developed the many innovations that revolutionize how we live today – including the personal computer, email, the Internet, the mobile phone, the tablet or any of the endless applications built on these technologies.