Sentence examples for resources were tapped from inspiring English sources

At one time, before Alaska's vast resources were tapped, California was vying for top billing as the nation's leading oil-producing state.

After the upheaval of the American Civil War and the Dakota War of 1862, the state's economy started to develop when natural resources were tapped for logging and farming.

Similarly, 36 groundwater resources were tapped and made available in various locations.

Europe's resources are tapped out on its problems.

There's only so long you can go on before all your resources are tapped and the barrel you're scraping has well and truly reached bottom.

In addition the traditional tuna fishermen of the Maldives are extremely adept at turning their hands to any other fishery (either part-time or full-time) that has the potential to increase their income, thus affecting the rate at which non-traditional reef resources are tapped.

The heated fluid from a geothermal resource is tapped by drilling wells, sometimes as deep as 9,100 metres (about 30,000 feet), and is extracted by pumping or by natural artesian flow (where the weight of the water forces it to the surface).

Ms. Rankin proved to have a gift for human resources and was tapped to serve as the first Director of Human Resources for the Museum of Science and Industry, creating the museum's human resources program from scratch.

The central hypothesis of this approach is that the individual has within him/herself vast resources for self understanding, for altering his/her self concept, attitudes, and self-directed behavior--and that these resources can be tapped if only a definable climate of facilitative psychological attitudes can be provided.

This allowed the more abundant offshore fish resources to be tapped, leading to a dramatic increase in catches.

In the cloud model, data centers with vast stores of information and processing resources can be tapped from afar through a personal computer, cellphone or other device.