After this graphic warning about the difficulties the Saudis are having even to replace existing production, much less grow it, the cable goes on to say "while this mission is far from embracing doomsday 'peak oil' theorists, Saudi Aramco's challenges are significant".
For example, it is the nature of an orange tree to bear fruit, but the majority of orange seeds do not even germinate, much less grow to maturity.
Cram the maximum amount of salt or sugar into a water solution--as in salting meat or making strawberry preserves--and microbes are hard-pressed to survive, much less grow.
The easy availability of news and information on the Web, the rise of Craigslist and other online ad platforms, the slowing economy these all have produced an exceptionally difficult environment for newspapers to maintain, much less grow, ad revenue.
"Given the slow growth of business, and the FAA breathing down our necks after the LAX incident, we're not going to keep — much less grow — our $50 million valuation from our previous round, and that's going to really, really suck for us.
With 450 of them retiring or quitting every year, it's a struggle to even maintain that level, much less grow.
The eggs produced by Saitou and his colleagues are far too immature to be fertilized, much less grow into a human child.
The new proposed law is supposed to help smaller businesses but in fact these small businesses are the ones that will suffer most as America moves away from the brick-and-mortar paradigm and more shops will have to turn to online sales to stay afloat, much less grow.
During that period, staffing at many of the nation's other homes has fallen much less or grown.
