That is the kind of family asset a boy will brag of.
It was anasset that could hardly be expressed in dollars and cents.
Measure such an asset in dollars and cents if you can!
How much of an asset do you suppose this conductor was to his company?
In those days the Boston and Albany probably did not dream that the time would come when its chief asset would be the value of its right of way across the newer and the finer portion of Boston.
I don't want to lose the Best Asset in that Fool's Estate.
A waterfall, or a rapid stream, is a great asset to any community, and for this reason should be carefully guarded.
Within the memory of some persons now living, the tinder box was a valuable asset to the home, particularly in the pioneer regions of the West.
That hold upon a young married man of means and of position would not be given to Jewson as a lifelong asset after all.
In the next place the stores of silver are not a dead asset of the Treasury.
They are just as much a living asset of the Treasury as is the accumulation of gold therein--and in the same sense.
We have here, again, a word which is a valuable asset to woman suffrage both in the respect that it brings moral pressure to bear, and in the respect that it is a word of ambiguous meaning.
Will this country again become one of the granaries of the world, and will it ever be, like Egypt, an important asset of our Empire?
Had I known more about Abadan before I started I would have taken a course of lessons in tight-rope walking, for that seems to be a great asset in getting along.
There is no difference of opinion as to the commercial value of the great asset which he has established for the Companies, in so completely winning the confidence of the people at large as well as those who hold high positions of trust.
To-day, wherever the Consolidated Companies is known, the public looks with approval upon favors shown us by its officials, and this in itself is an asset to our corporation of untold value.
The very magnetism which they had felt exercised by him upon themselves they had capitalized as an asset to be assayed when once the ore was stopped.
A reporter who could thus cater to the public greed for horrors was an asset to the Cincinnati press.
They ought to become a very valuable asset in the new economic development of the entire territory of Alaska.
Its peculiarities have created a method of mining, the outcome of costly experiment, experience, and skill, which will remain a lasting asset to future ages.
Banneker, his inner brain a fiery whorl, though the outer convolutions which he used for social purposes remained quite under control, drifted about making himself agreeable and approving himself to his host as an asset of the highest value.
It is a great asset in politics," wrote Banneker to Miss Camilla, "to have nothing to hide or explain.
It might even lead to the loss of the canal itself, and we then would witness that great waterway transformed from a military asset of immeasureable benefit into a base of operations against us.
Marriage had been to me an asset to be used in my career, some time after my doctor's degree, like casting in chess.
That Imp is the greatest corporate asset that ever existed.
Went on the road to the possession of the Federal Imp Company as the sole asset of the corporation.
Equally true is it, that the houses which in future shall fail will be those which do not cultivate and cherish the good-will of authors as the most valuable asset they can ever hope to possess.
His duties primarily are to preserve and to create good-will from authors toward the house which employs him, for that good-will is an asset of the first importance to a publishing house.
Such relations are no mean asset to the salesman, although they are not wholly essential.
The name of a well-known author is the best asset a book can have.
When all is said and done the illustrator's strongest asset is spirit.
The Batavian Republic as a thriving commercial commonwealth was a much better asset to the French Republic than the same republic playing a game of revolution, which was very distasteful to the richer classes of the nation.
Moreover the old Oriental task-masters possessed an asset which we have lost--a supreme scorn for being unduly hurried.
Moreover, if they could only be cajoled into complacency they might prove quite a useful asset later as independent witnesses to character.
Not for his bodily safety did he emigrate; Erasmus would not have been touched--he was far too valuable anasset for such measures.
Indeed, Erasmus had become, by virtue of his enormous celebrity, as circumstances would have it, more and more a valuable asset in the great policy of emperor and pope.
The ability to properly classify the accounts that make up trading and profit and loss statements, and balance sheets is a valuable asset to the bookkeeper who aims to advance to the highest position.
All asset accounts should be assembled in the first section and grouped according to their classification; i.
The asset accounts, representing the different classes of properties or assets of the estate, correspond to the asset accounts of an ordinary business.
If a new ledger is to be opened, new accounts will be opened for each form of asset or liability represented in the entry.
Just the thing," exclaimed Carton, whose keen sense of proportion showed what a valuable political asset such a coup would make in addition to its effect on the case.
Even if they were out now, it would not give me time to make of it an asset instead of a liability.
In time land in general became an asset with a market value and could be bought and sold.
The greatest asset of the capitalism of that age was, as a matter of fact, the uncontrolled breeding among the laboring classes.
It is a truism that children are the chief asset of a nation.
They turned prisoners into a real military asset by employing them in propaganda, and talked a whole staff of Nazi generals into the Free Germany movement.
Security is an asset to any army; its price is rarely too high a price to pay for protection, but a selective and flexible censorship can lead to positive advantages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "asset" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: advantage; asset; beauty; blessing; credible; plus; strength; virtue
