Verb (used with object), : The fire had depleted the game in the forest. Extravagant spending soon depleted his funds.    From Dictionary.com. 

The proper calculation of income from depletable natural resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3] Reference

There will be plenty of time to transition to non-depletable technologies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Market Faces a Disturbing Oil Forecast - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

He's the person who worked out correctly the theory of depletable resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life] Reference

South Africa to stop treating its people and biosphere as disposable and depletable assets.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And since oil is a depletable resource, the country can eventually run out of oil and find itself worse off than before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explaining differences in economic growth and development] Reference

They along with other depletable gifts of nature can and should be placed in trust for future generations — not just figuratively, but literally.    From Wordnik.com.  [B2fxxx] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microeconomics and the environment] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microeconomics and the environment] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Hicksian income, welfare, and the steady state] Reference

Northern Province premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi said in Pietersburg tourism was identified as a significant foreign exchange earner and non-depletable resource within the sub-region.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

There is no smooth transition, no gradual slowing down of activity; rather, the economic system consumes successively larger amounts of the depletable resources until they are gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

Currently, the Federal tax code requires delayed rental expenses to be capitalized to the depletable base of the property to which they relate if the property is being held for development.    From Wordnik.com.  [Administration To Enhance Us Energy Security] Reference

Now and in the future, questions of energy supply can no longer be treated as a second priority because conventional resources are depletable and the switch away from such resources is inevitable.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. THE NEED TO EXPAND DOMESTIC ENERGY PRODUCTION] Reference

By its insistence on training, health, safety at work and environmental regulation it is laying down standards that will compel us all the stop treating people and our biosphere as disposable and depletable assets.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The depletable base at September 30, 2009 includes a provision of.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

However, as the mud is a depletable resource, they do some sort of recycling with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference

We need to STOP using a depletable resource that WILL run out before the end of the century.    From Wordnik.com.  [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference

Others may worry that higher oil production today just leaves the world with less of this depletable resource for the future.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Some people argue that when you put in these renewable (non-depletable, non-exhaustable) wind and solar energy sources, you have back these up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate Progress] Reference

However, it is really limited to those that are involved in natural resources - that is basically the extraction, transportation of a depletable resource.    From Wordnik.com.  [$230 Billion Market Cap Just The Beginning: Libby F. Toudouze Of Swank Capital Explains Master Limited Partnership Asset Class Investing Strategy And Identifies MLPs With 6% To 7% Yields With Growth To Offset Inflation - Yahoo! Finance] Reference

In spite of the abundance of hydrocarbons, especially natural gas, which is the cornerstone of Qatar's economic prosperity, the Emir said, they are depletable.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In short, we don't need to burden ourselves with polluting and hazardous power plants dependent on dirty, dangerous, and depletable supplies of coal and uranium.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEEDMAGAZINE.COM] Reference

And in the long term, old solar cells can largely be recycled into new solar cells, changing our energy supply picture from depletable fuels to recyclable materials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Consumers Association News Headlines] Reference

Knowing that we have limited depletable, high energy intensity resources, one of the most critical things we should make sure of as a society is that those resources are managed well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Kos] Reference

Depletion expense will fluctuate from period to period depending upon production levels, the amount of proved reserves, depletable costs, and the level of capital expenditures, among other factors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

(depletable, exhaustible) and because they are greenhouse gas polluting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate Progress] Reference

Said Schade: "Unlike mining or fisheries, tourism is a non-depletable resource.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The company’s goal is to have 25 percent of its revenue come from such non-depletable resources, and today is two-thirds of the way toward meeting that goal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business strategy and climate change] Reference

But … talk about a depletable resource!.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Whaling Was King - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Its measured in "bandwidth" units, and it's considered "depletable".    From Wordnik.com.  [p2pnet news] Reference