Definitions
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- adjective capable of being depleted
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Examples
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It was this thought that guided me to formulate what became known as the ‘El Serafy method’ for estimating income from the revenue obtained in depletable resource extraction.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Hicksian income, welfare, and the steady state 2009
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It offers nothing but fattening trifles that don\'t last long, wasteful and poorly thought-out ideas that go nowhere, unsustainable concepts or uneconomic implementations, politically untenable strategies, and wishful thinking using old depletable resources that are in short supply.
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It offers nothing but fattening trifles that don't last long, wasteful and poorly thought-out ideas that go nowhere, unsustainable concepts or uneconomic implementations, politically untenable strategies, and wishful thinking using old depletable resources that are in short supply.
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It offers nothing but fattening trifles that don't last long, wasteful and poorly thought-out ideas that go nowhere, unsustainable concepts or uneconomic implementations, politically untenable strategies, and wishful thinking using old depletable resources that are in short supply.
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There will be plenty of time to transition to non-depletable technologies.
Market Faces a Disturbing Oil Forecast - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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However many of the resources they contain are finite, degradable or depletable, which means that the economic analysis of common property resources will apply to them.
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All the living species found in terrestrial or marine ecosystems are potentially depletable if the rate of extraction is higher than their natural rate of renewal.
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The proper calculation of income from depletable natural resources.
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And since oil is a depletable resource, the country can eventually run out of oil and find itself worse off than before.
Explaining differences in economic growth and development 2007
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They along with other depletable gifts of nature can and should be placed in trust for future generations — not just figuratively, but literally.
B2fxxx 2005
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