exhaustible

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'Oil is exhaustible, but tourism is sustainable', hence the NTDC slogan that "Tourism is Life".

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  1. Capable of being exhausted, drained off, consumed, or used up. Though employed with profusion, and even with prodigality, yet its sum total was definite and easily exhaustible. Eustace, Tour through Italy, xii.

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  • I agree natural gas is a good domestic solution (temporarily) but that is an exhaustible resource subject to price spikes.
  • In fact, they're far more exhaustible than our own. —  Ace of Spades HQ
  • I can see why a country that is presently making money out of exhaustible resources would treat some of it's present income as a "retirement fund" or future development fund that can be used to restructure away from the resource once depleted, but, in the context of an industrial power like China where much of its population is in need of basic spending that this money could provide I'm not sure what excess means. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
  • One can readily see that California as well as the planet is exhaustible. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
  • Despite the tough sales conditions and cheaper gasoline, Seki said the consumer trend toward fuel-efficient vehicles was solid in the long-run given the exhaustible supply of fossil fuels. —  Breaking News - The Post Chronicle
 

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