Sentence examples for resources lost from inspiring English sources

But the cost of a prolonged slump, in terms of idle resources, lost income, decaying skills and an erosion in the trust that keeps civil society going, would be far higher.

Prohibiting digging new wells, obstructing illegal wells, stopping boring bedrocks in existing wells, managing water consumption and concerning concept of virtual water are some solutions for prohibiting water resources lost in the study area.

Those who routinely used one or two of those resources lost on average 9.3 and 9.5 pounds, respectively.

All of this has real cost, in badly allocated resources, lost opportunity, and a further corrosion of the polity.

Indirect costs represent the value of economic resources lost because of disease-related work disability or premature mortality.

It is important to note that this estimate for IFF does not include resources lost due to corruption.

Now that we have rediscovered that fighting with inadequate resources loses wars, the public is understandably fed up with the whole undertaking.

Ireland, Europe's bruised and battle-scarred champions, ran out of time and resources, losing their dream of a first World Cup semi-final to a burst of late scoring that took Argentina to a more than flattering 23-point victory.

Net declines in fitness were not observed as correlated responses, at least across the range of environments tested, with one conspicuous exception: all six populations that evolved with glucose as the sole resource lost fitness when they were tested in the lactose-only environment.

With resources not containing profitable rewards at two distinct points of the resource axis, the fitness gain of specializing on distinct benthic resources are lost upon eutrophication (Vonlanthen et al. 1999) (Fig.  1).

The tunnel of Erik's nightmares — which gives the play its queasy final image — is one of deteriorating health, dwindling resources, and lost security.