Sentence examples for surplus people from inspiring English sources

In the chillingly euphemistic language of apartheid, the Bantustans became dumping grounds for "surplus people".

"Trade brought an influx of new nutrients, like potatoes and sugar, while colonization allowed the emigration of surplus people," Mr. Ferguson says of England.

Second, the technology of agriculture was no more advanced than that of war, so that, with most of their energy devoted to feeding themselves and with little economic surplus, people had few resources available for specialized military technology.

His conversion to activism came at Our Lady of Sorrows church at the Maria Ratschitz mission, near Ladysmith, as his parishioners were being moved forcibly to Limehill, a dumping ground for what a cabinet minister called "surplus" people.

In one field, the nation runs a surplus: People who'd rather go to school here than somewhere else.

With a population of 88 million, growing by 1.8% or 1.6 million a year, the country's greatest success may be in exporting surplus people to fill labor shortages in the developed world.

(The No. 2 cause, presumably, is a surplus of people, since people, not guns, kill people).

She suggested training a surplus of people so that there are more qualified GPs.

"The problem, of course, is once it exhausts the surplus, the people it hired are still on the payroll".

One difference is the deficit of financiers and surplus of people traipsing around with cello cases, off to play in one of many state-funded concerts.

AMERICA, like other modern countries, has always had some surplus workers — people ready to work but jobless for extended periods because the "job creators," private and public, have been unable or unwilling to create sufficient jobs.