Sentence examples for worthless its from inspiring English sources

Its currency, the battered kip, was virtually worthless, its economy derelict, it exported little but opium (though plenty of that) and offered its people lives of unremitting torpor.

The list is presented as a challenge, with the title: "Priceless or worthless?" Its compilers ask whether we care only for species that are iconic and "charismatic", such as tigers and pandas and those, such as the appetite-suppressing hoodia cactus of the Kalahari, that may yield benefits for medicine or other purposes.

By week's end Iceland was nearly bankrupted, its currency worthless, its stock exchange temporarily shuttered.

Now WorldCom is all but worthless, its stock below 10 cents a share and its bonds trading for less than 20 cents on the dollar.

A great-man saga, which dismisses alternative schools of history as worthless, it chooses as its unlikely 20th-century Presidential heroes Calvin Coolidge, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan while casting Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy as scoundrels.

He laments how meaningful a library is to its collector, and how worthless it is to anyone else.

But it does present the paradox of the top executives of a company, including its chief financial officer, declaring behind closed doors that its real stock is worthless to its employees — with the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Bank agreeing — even as the rest of the world is buying and selling it for $40 or $50.

Surgutneftegaz, one of the largest companies in Russia, was trading Wednesday at just over the value of the cash in its bank account, meaning investors valued its vast oil fields, its thousands of employees and other assets as nearly worthless under its current Russian management.

State Senator Carl Kruger noted that sending the letter at this stage had made Mountain Fruit worthless, as its owner could not hope to sell it now.

Such a tip might seem worthless on its face, said Jean Davis, who took the call.

Any deal for the company would be worthless without its approval.