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How to use the word Surplus in a Sentence?

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He was a Soviet officer, most likely a lieutenant, who simply saw the opportunities presented by three factors that came with the collapse of the USSR and the state sponsorship that entailed : abandoned aircraft on the runways from Moscow to Kiev, no longer able to fly because of the lack of money for fuel or maintenance ; huge stores of surplus weapons that were guarded by guards suddenly receiving little or no salary ; and the booming demand for those weapons from traditional Soviet clients and newly emerging armed groups from Africa to the Philippines.

Douglas Farah

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As long as we don't take our own money as a benchmark, we are doomed to sink. The Turkish lira, our money, that is what we will go forward with. Not with foreign currency, we have been working for some time now to get the Turkish economy out of the spiral of high interest rates, high inflation, and to set it on the path of growth through investment, employment, production, exportation and current account surplus.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think most people that come here would say we have better roads, infrastructure, services, our K-12 schools perform higher, we have the number one rated public university system in the country. And we do all that with no state income tax and in fact have the lowest per capita tax burden in the country. And we have over $15 billion in surplus revenue.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He misstated our surplus, lied about ending the high speed rail, and is finally recognizing that this is a Californian recall, not a Republican recall.

Kevin Paffrath

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One-third of our California restaurants went bankrupt under lockdowns, he misstated our surplus, lied about ending the high speed rail, and is finally recognizing that this is a Californian recall, not a Republican recall.

Kevin Paffrath

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The meeting emphasised strengthening collective cooperation, praising the countries’ compliance with the agreement, and the positive development in increasing demand for crude, as well as the decline in stocks and oil surplus, which is a positive and influential indicator.

Abdul Jabbar

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Most of the states that are doing rate reductions have a big surplus, and that's what they are using, a lot are pursuing policies they had in mind for a while now, but just didn't have the revenue to do.

Katherine Loughead

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have surplus oxygen at plants which are far off from places where it is needed right now. Trucking oxygen is a challenge from these plants, we have ramped up the production as oxygen consumption is rising through the roof. But we have limitations and the biggest challenge right now is transporting it to where its urgently needed.

Saket Tiku

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The Saudis’ intent to eliminate a global supply surplus appears to be on track and capable of boosting crude prices further.

Jim Ritterbusch

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The market was led up by a significant draw in crude oil as the refining industry continues to turn the crude oil surplus into refined products.

Andrew Lipow

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It is actually offensive to assume that the U.S. taxpayer must continue to pay to have 50,000-plus Americans in Germany, but the Germans get to spend their surplus on domestic programs.

Richard Grenell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We're taking a big risk and expect that the studies will be positive, if that's not the case, then we're going to have a surplus.

Alexander Hardy

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The U.S. likely has a surplus of food right now.

Keith Dailey

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The big question is that if people are going to be unemployed, what happens? will they be able to have the 50 cents to a dollar a day in surplus cash to spend on telco services?

Chairman Denis O'Brien

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

At that tipping point, the producer surplus will become a massive logistical headache for oil storage consideration, which then opens up the trap door for oil prices to plummet below cash costs.

Stephen Innes

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I'm not in a position to give a firm answer to that question because the full economic impact is still uncertain ... Our focus is not on the surplus per se.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

As if you had died and your life had extended only to this present moment, use the surplus that is left to you to live from this time onward according to nature.

Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
4 years ago

We think China is unlikely to engineer 25% depreciation to counter the impact of tariff as the cost of capital outflows amid the shrinking current account surplus may outweigh the benefit of supporting export, the pressure on RMB depreciation may depend on three near-term factors including the size of China's retaliation package, U.S.'s plan to impose tariff on the remaining $325 billion products and market's assessment on whether the setback is temporary or not.

Tommy Xie

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If there is a set-back in trade talks, both external demand and domestic demand could be hit. If the U.S. and China reach a trade deal, China will have to step up imports form the U.S., which will reduce its trade surplus, which will reduce net exports' contribution to GDP growth.

Tang Jianwei

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Most Washington critical access hospitals are operating with a surplus and can afford to bring on one extra nurse or technician.

Heather Weiner

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It enables us to store renewable energy when it's in surplus and dispatch it at times of peak demand.

Genex Power

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If we find surplus cash at the end of the year, or if oil prices respond quickly in a certain year, we can easily reinvest that for near term cash flow.

Amir Gerges

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Trump appears to be attempting to micromanage the oil... to maintain strong enough production to keep global supplies in surplus, but as far as the Saudis are concerned, today's tweets could even embolden their efforts toward restraint.

Jim Ritterbusch

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Saturday's OPEC+ press conference provided more clarity on the decision to increase production, with guidance for a full 1 million bpd ramp-up in 2H18, this is a larger increase than presented Friday although the goal remains to stabilize inventories, not generate a surplus.

Goldman Sachs

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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