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Example sentences for "resources"

Lexicographically close words:
resounds; resource; resourceful; resourcefulness; resourceless; respeck; respecks; respect; respectabilities; respectability
  1. While the interest is thus provided for, the sale of our lands in a very few years will pay the principal, and the other resources of the state will pay our own debt.

  2. In this way we daily make rapid advancements towards independence in resources as well as in empire.

  3. In case of a rejection we must remain as we are, with trade extending, resources opening, settlements enlarging, manufactures increasing, and publick debts diminishing by fair payment.

  4. This word would open all the resources of the country and draw out a brigade of militia rapidly as the most decisive orders of a despotic government.

  5. The delusive bubble has broke, and in breaking has beggared thousands, and left you an unprotected people; numerous without force, and full of resources but unable to command one of them.

  6. I do not mean to insinuate that no other provision should be made for our creditors, but only to shew that our credit is not so bad in other countries as has been represented, and that our resources are fully equal to the pressure.

  7. At the critical moment when the essential movement of troops and munitions was straining the resources of the railroads, the sprawling coal industry made their task impossible.

  8. The coal budget, based upon a detailed analysis of the country's resources and needs, set a definite standard of performance both for the industry and the railroads, and made it possible for them to cooperate intelligently.

  9. But we have been, if possible, more prodigal in our exploitation of our petroleum resources than of coal.

  10. If we stopped mining coal tomorrow and let American petroleum take its place, all our petroleum resources would be exhausted in about fifteen months.

  11. Mrs. Hunt was a capital financier, a peerless economist, but the exigency taxed her resources to the utmost.

  12. Indeed, it was currently believed among outsiders that they had other resources than the cashier's wages, and Mrs. Hunt indirectly encouraged the report that she held property in her own right.

  13. And again, "Though the arts are in some respects isolated, yet there is one which seems to profit by the resources of all, and that is Poetry.

  14. You and I, if we have the dregs of any love left in us, if we have the remnants of a passion remaining in our hearts, should husband our resources better.

  15. The two scribes therefore were left severally to the resources of their respective Latin MSS.

  16. Brazil is travelling a similar path, although much more slowly; and although its climate is not so good, its natural resources are vaster and will in the present century undergo an extraordinary development.

  17. Among the real settlers, the home-makers of sense and farsightedness, there is a growing belief in the wisdom of the policy of the preservation of the national resources by the National Government.

  18. Before we approach, however, the one great event which opened a new theater of action to the city, and developed resources before undreamed of--the steam navigation of the Ohio.

  19. And it is somewhat singular that, with the resources and capacity of this city as a place for manufactures, there should be so little to boast of in this regard.

  20. They have already offered to open their resources for our supplies.

  21. This occurred, too, just at a period when the resources of the town, beginning to develop themselves, were attracting the attention of capitalists.

  22. Applause) Toward the conservation of our mineral resources little can be done by Federal action.

  23. Hence forests in New York State by their influence upon soil and water flow occupy the position of first importance among our natural resources to be conserved.

  24. We are interested; we try to regulate our resources in some measure, within the powers of the State Government; but our interest is largely confined to our public lands.

  25. Another example of a confusion of the question, or raising a false question, is when a saving of natural resources is identified with locking them up; as though energy conserved were to be understood as energy neutralized.

  26. Its resources are its own frugality, its own skill, its own enterprise.

  27. They compel common words to bear a burden of thought and emotion, which mere rhetoricians, with all the resources of the language at their disposal, would never dream of imposing upon them.

  28. The appeal lay to the sword, and the only question was, whether the spirit and the resources of the people would hold out, till the object should be accomplished.

  29. Even when its symmetry is destroyed by a long and destructive siege, a pile of stones still remains, as at Fort Sumter, to attest what power of resistance it opposed to all the resources of modern artillery.

  30. Townships not having resources and population sufficient to receive the Christian Brothers will then be attended to by these Little Brothers, called after Lamennais, S.

  31. While owned by Lord North, Queen Elizabeth spent four days here, which so diminished his lordship's resources that he was obliged to live in retirement the rest of his life.

  32. At the end of three years resources failed, and the work could not go on.

  33. Whence, for example, have the immense resources of the religious orders, vowed to poverty, proceeded, which they must have consecrated to their numerous and vast establishments?

  34. He perceived more and more every day how strong and reliable she was, and how full of resources for every emergency.

  35. May his example encourage others to cultivate the same field, and thus contribute towards developing "the resources of our noble language," and making it a fit channel for sound philosophical education.

  36. Instead of taking the course of inviting the Whigs to take office, he asked them to join the existing administration.

  37. Towards the native population Wissmann's attitude was conciliatory, and under his rule the development of the resources of the country was pushed on.

  38. As a result of this visit more humane methods in the treatment of the natives were introduced, and measures taken to develop more fully the economic resources of the country.

  39. The mineral resources of Georgia are as varied as its climate and soils, a total of thirty-nine different mineral products being found within its borders.

  40. Numerous companies are engaged in developing the resources of the country by trading, planting and mining.

  41. Without the assistance of photography, however greatly the resources of genius might overcome the optical and mechanical difficulties of constructing large telescopes, the astronomer would have to depend in the last resource upon his eye.

  42. For the struggle which occupied him more and more had by this time declared its issues plainly enough; daily the temptation became stronger, the resources of honour more feeble.

  43. Much lonelier; she had no resources in herself.

  44. He would make the individual's right to the resources of nature safe against the creditors through a law exempting homesteads from attachment for debts and even against himself by making the homestead inalienable.

  45. For practical reasons he would not interfere with natural resources which have already passed under private ownership.

  46. Though the resources of these laborers were small, they began the work with great hopes.

  47. And shall the natural resources of great regions of the earth be permitted to lie fallow merely because the actual inhabitants are too ignorant and too indolent to want to produce anything and to trade?

  48. It is evident that the successful exploitation of the resources of material nature is of enormous significance to the life of man.

  49. Having now pretty well exhausted the resources of Bob’s room, the Teddy bears resolved to carry their researches higher up, especially as it was growing rather late.

  50. When at last they had exhausted the resources of the drawing-room, they all trailed into the library which lay just beyond and was separated from it by heavy silk portieres.

  51. They will trace out the resources of the provinces, and betray to the crown the secrets of our freedom and our property.

  52. With an artifice rich in resources he came to the aid of Philip's more inactive mind, formed into perfect thought his master's crude ideas while they yet hung on his lips, and liberally allowed him the glory of the invention.

  53. And these mighty creations are out of all proportion to the essential and indigenous elements and resources of the country.

  54. It was the great calm of profound conviction, borne up by a thorough reliance on the right--the right as to time, as to degree, and as to resources for the battle of life.

  55. Relying upon his own resources and the friendship of the Indians, Washington pushed boldly on.

  56. From whence came this person, who was she, and what were her resources for living?

  57. When his purse was exhausted, and his personal resources no longer sufficed, he had recourse to that of others.

  58. We know well we are on the winning side, and that the prayers of the poor and the weak and despised can do more, when offered in a true spirit, then all the wisdom and all the resources of the world.

  59. The individual, being thus debarred of all external aid, is thrown upon his own resources for religious guidance.

  60. To that end are needed the united and combined efforts of society, and all the resources of industry.

  61. The ordinary resources of the law no longer sufficing, philosophy, political economy, and the framers of systems have been consulted.

  62. The repairs had long been finished but the Suprema coolly appropriated the income as part of its regular resources and kept it to the end.

  63. They were the visible agents of the Holy Office, the embodiment of its mysterious and all-embracing authority, empowered to summon to their aid the whole resources of the State and answerable only to their chief.

  64. Yet as one witness was sufficient to justify torture, these scruples did not save the accused but only exposed him to the risk of convicting himself if his endurance did not exhaust the resources of the torture-chamber.

  65. When cases transcended the resources of the Inquisition, the ordinary course was to transfer the patient to a hospital, in disregard of the cherished secrecy of the prison.

  66. It was probably in connection with this that an elaborate statement of the resources and expenditures of the Suprema was prepared.

  67. As the activity of the Inquisition diminished, and perhaps also as its resources fell short, this drain on its finances was greatly reduced.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resources" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ability; asset; assets; balance; budget; capacity; capital; capitalization; circumstance; circumstances; device; estate; exchequer; finance; finances; fortune; fund; funds; holdings; material; mean; means; method; money; pocket; pool; power; principal; property; purse; recourse; reserves; resort; resource; resources; riches; saving; savings; stock; substance; supply; tangible; treasure; treasury; way; wealth; wherewithal; worth