How to Use natural resource in a Sentence

natural resource

noun
  • The country, rich in natural resources, has been a key partner in the West’s fight against Islamist groups in west Africa.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 27 July 2023
  • Greg Beard ranks among Wall Street's most successful natural resource investors of the past two decades.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Renewal of our natural resources, the great gift nature gave our area.
    Gabriel Greschler, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
  • And losing the social license will have dire consequences, as natural resource companies, such as Shell and BP, have learned in the past.
    François Candelon, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The program will address transparency in debt management and the natural resource sector, the IMF said.
    Matthew Hill, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The eaglet's parents continued to visit the tree that once held their nest on Monday, the state natural resources department said.
    Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The two sides agreed payment would be in euros to reduce their use of U.S. dollars, the common currency in natural resource markets.
    Joe McDonald, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Awareness of the river as a natural resource began to grow in the 1980s when environmental groups put pressure on the county and the Army Corps of Engineers.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Mining companies had long had their eyes on Big Mountain, which was rich with natural resources.
    Serena Lin, AZCentral.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The area remains rich in natural resources, including tin, which is crucial for the making of electronics.
    Michelle Toh, CNN, 29 June 2023
  • Elkins-Tanton hopes that this mission could help humans obtain resources from space that could prolong the longevity and health of Earth’s natural resources.
    Sabrina Malhi, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Wild rainbows, on the other hand, are an important natural resource throughout the Boise and Payette river systems.
    Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Barboza-Gubo’s jungle is a sacred place, seen not as a natural resource, but as a generative source.
    Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2022
  • But today, access to modern medicine does more to determine height than do natural resources.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • And that the land where manure spreading is currently taking place is too close to the Milwaukee River and other natural resources.
    Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Preserving this natural resource would have made more sense.
    Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The park has many boosters, including Rod Simmons, natural resource manager at the City of Alexandria.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
  • The Golan is known for its wealth of natural resources, such as water, wind, and potentially petroleum.
    Popular Science, 26 July 2023
  • Australia’s moniker has often proved apt in part because of its plentiful natural resources.
    Jacky Wong, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023
  • As Lake Clark’s natural resource program manager, Mangipane has conducted research in the park for two decades.
    Kristen Pope, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Many developing countries are lucky to have large reserves of natural resources.
    Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • It is also seen as critical for stepping up exports of the Russian natural resources that are critical for the economy.
    Ivan Nechepurenko Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • In the past, natural resource projects, such as mines, were often imposed on Indigenous communities that reaped few rewards.
    Danielle Bochove, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
  • At its core, preservation involves strict limits on the human use of, and interaction with, natural resources.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 29 Nov. 2023
  • This is because banks and governments often look to bolster their reserves with gold, so a brief uplift in demand for mining the natural resource usually hits the market.
    Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Sheila Khama, the former chief executive of De Beers in Botswana, used to advise governments on natural resource management.
    John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 29 June 2023
  • More and more, new science is recognizing the wisdom and expertise of Indigenous peoples’ approach to natural resource use and management, such as the use of fire to support healthy forests.
    Carlos Callado, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Ortiz described water as the most precious natural resource, after air.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The precise design is one that underlines the group’s belief that using 100 percent of a fish or natural resource can give rise to innovative technologies.
    Hannah Hall, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Economic opportunities abound - from tourism to shipping to deep water ports - and there is growing interest in the vast natural resources thought to lie below the Arctic seabed floor.
    Danielle Bochove, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023

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