Sentence examples for world accumulated from inspiring English sources

Dubai World accumulated $80 billion in debt building the world's tallest skyscraper and a palm-shaped artificial island.

PARIS — A chunk of the stock of antiquities from the Ancient World accumulated by Joseph Uzan, who opened his Galerie Samarcande in 1979, came up at Drouot last week.

As the world accumulates more and more billionaires, entrepreneurs are seeking newer and more demanding ways to provide them with the ultimate in hi-tech thrills.

He has also travelled the world accumulating examples he is just as interested in Iceland's generic-drug industry as in Silicon Valley's giants.

The option of using point data is becoming increasingly tractable as many parts of the world accumulate large quantities of vegetation composition data from sample plots (e.g. Dengler et al. 2011).

Teenagers groom their MySpace profiles as intensely as their hair; escapists clock 50-hour weeks in virtual worlds, accumulating gold for their online avatars.

As calamities and political conflicts around the world accumulate, and it is ever more tempting to throw up your hands, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival is fighting the tide of cynicism and despair.

The number of living species of sharks, estimated at over 400 at present, tends to increase as ichthyologists in different parts of the world accumulate and exchange careful anatomical measurements of fresh specimens and discover new species in previously unexplored areas.

As time passes, however, paradigms tend to ossify into forms of received wisdom, even as new observations about the world accumulate.

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset's The Welfare Show, at the Serpentine Gallery, plunges us into a world we'd sooner forget, a world of accumulated blank hours, of institutional anonymity, of boredom, trepidation, impotence and seething inner rage.

THE world has accumulated too much debt.