Sentence examples for material surplus from inspiring English sources

Most metal and plastic parts are designed to be manufactured, which means they can be clunky and contain material surplus to the part's function but necessary for making it.

"I think because of our wealth, our material surplus, we can treat these animals as if they were our children," Ms. Benton said, "but some people are just so fixated on that animal that they run into trouble, because it's not an accurate perception of the animal".

In our view, at the press rumoured price of $1.4bn (assuming there is no material surplus capital to be injected into the business before sale) is correct, then relative to historic earnings of around $80m, it does not stand out as being obviously cheap (around 17.5 times earnings) on a headline basis for an asset manager.

Packer's jadedness has grown out of his need to spend more, or to force himself into some new evolutionary stage of being, allowing him to be at one with riches, which in a mysterious, super-contemporary sense, have gone beyond mere material surplus.

The reason is that capitalists compete with each other in order to make a profit; hence they have an incentive to develop new, ever more efficient means to produce goods, creating a large material surplus without which socialism would not be feasible.

Far from being broke, California now has a material surplus.

Whether the American queue of weapons plutonium awaiting conversion into reactor fuel will grow longer is not clear; first, a president would have to declare additional material as surplus.

They could successfully decompose several organic materials like surplus feeds, excrements, urine, ammonia, nitrite ions, etc.

This model made extensive use of facilities, materials and surplus energy from the sugarcane industry that would otherwise be wasted or sold at subsistence prices.

The incoming energy included the energy in the raw materials, enzymes, surplus natural gas, and the energy required for harvesting and transportation.

Table 14 Major nonrenewable energy sources causing fossil fuel depletion Producer gas life cycle Coal gas life cycle Material MJ energy surplus % of total FDP Material MJ energy surplus % of total FDP Coal 1.0867 77.62 Coal 3.56 84.96 Natural gas 0.2113 15.09 Natural gas 0.2416 5.77 Oil 0.04485 3.20 Oil 0.234 5.58 Uranium 0.0533 3.81      .