6 sentences with 'exploit'
Example sentences and phrases with the word exploit and other words derived from it.
• « Starting in Britain in the mid-18th century, Europeans learned to exploit fossil fuels in the form of coal to harness previously unimaginable amounts of energy. »
• « Until 1857, India was governed by the British East India Company (EIC), the state-sponsored monopoly that was established in the 17th century to exploit overseas trade and which controlled India's monopoly on imports and exports. »
• « We are a young species, but we already know that the Earth is a hotel. Natural resources are depleting, the biosphere is under pressure from billions of people, one fifth of whom exploit 90 per cent of the energy and two thirds of whom are too desperate for shelter and food not to sweep the forests or poison the air, the rivers, the seas. »
• « Man's increasing ability to access diverse natural environments - exploration of submarine trenches, high mountain systems, etc. - in order to learn about them and, fundamentally, the need to exploit the world's natural resources to the maximum, explains the recent appearance of species that were thought to be extinct. »
• « As the government owned a lot of land suitable for work, it was decided to give it to those who wished to exploit it in exchange for paying an annual sum of money, proportional to its value. »
• « In the early 16th century, it joined the race to explore the New World and exploit the resources of the Western Hemisphere. »