This is an invaluable asset.

It s also a profitable business.

Then, we could say, active passive.

You're a valuable asset to me.

Public health is an important asset for any nation.

Economic success is the region s financial asset.

They would be much more likely to embrace a cheaper, smarter, and more beneficial path of innovation.

They would be much more likely to embrace a cheaper, smarter, and more beneficial path of innovation.

The cause of democracy in Egypt has one other asset, the most important one of all.

Third, Mauritius recognized that without natural resources, its people were its only asset.

Disease saps the greatest asset that any country possesses the energy and talent of its people.

But India s greatest asset there doesn t come out of a military mission it doesn't have one.

Many at the bottom, or even in the middle, are not living up to their potential, because the rich, needing few public services and worried that a strong government might redistribute income, use their political influence to cut taxes and curtail government spending.

Lack of opportunity means that its most valuable asset its people is not being fully used.

From its base in India, the Company had also been engaged in an increasingly profitable opium export trade to China since the 1730s.

On the contrary, Europe s Economic and Monetary Union is proving a major asset in these tumultuous times.

And, by bowing to the UK s pressure, the Fund undermined its only real asset its independence.

As a result, society s most valuable asset, its human capital, is being wasted and even destroyed.

My guess is that on polling day, Prime Minister David Cameron will emerge holding this asset.

Within this department, official entities can exchange SDRs the IMF s own international reserve asset for other currencies.

But, beyond narrow party confines, opinion polls were exceptionally kind a vast cross section of the Israeli public wants Livni to lead.

Her predecessor, Ehud Olmert, inundated by corruption charges and set to resign, is hardly her best asset.

In addition, Pakistan, in the words of chief military officer General Ashfaq Kayani, views the Taliban as a strategic asset in the struggle with India.

Indeed, in risking his most lucrative market, Putin is exhibiting an almost suicidal disregard for the Russian economy apparently for no other reason than to cement enmity with Ukraine.

So the relationship is liable to go wrong at the worst possible time when a hedge would be most useful, the asset you were relying on becomes a risk.

Investors, worried about the size of a government deficit, see only the bottom line. But if a company can buy a 1 billion asset for 500 million,economic logic says buy the asset.

In October of that year, the price of gold the consummate faith based speculative asset was on the way up, having just hit 1,300.

Their trip was allegedly paid for by the British company De La Rue, a former contractor of the government and a likely bidder on the lucrative tender to produce the new biometric passports next year.

In the 15th century, the Portuguese went to Africa in search of a route to India, started producing sugarcane then moved onto the more lucrative business of slavery.

In other words, SDRs are both an asset and a liability, functioning like a guaranteed credit line for the holder a sort of unconditional overdraft facility.

Member countries would receive an asset that was more stable than the dollar, as it was based on a basket of currencies, thereby providing better protection against losses.

Russian secret services have their own systems, like Semantic Archive, the Administration and the ministries use their own systems, and this Venediktov is merely trying to find his way to this profitable market.

How a society handles ethnic and religious diversity can tell us a great deal about its capacity to negotiate disagreements and transform pluralism from a liability into an asset.

Citibank whose chief executive, Walter Wriston, famously declared that countries don t go bust led the charge, recycling a flood of petrodollars to dubious regimes. It was more lucrative business than traditional lending a few bankers could lend enormous sums with little due diligence except for the small detail that governments plied with easy credit do sometimes default.

On the financial front, the failure of weaker banks in a recession leaves survivors that benefit from greater public confidence and are therefore able to resume profitable business.

As long as that partition remains in place, SDRs will function, at best, like a credit line that can be used unconditionally by the holder a kind of overdraft facility, not a true reserve asset.

But the scale of total capital erosion in the event of default is the same, regardless of whether the asset has been held for a single day on the trading book or an entire decade on the banking book.

The world's largest and most profitable gold mine, Grasberg, owned by Phoenix based Freeport McMoran, lies just 60 miles from Paniai, a highland province around the size of New Jersey and home to 153,000 people.

After his spectacular departure from the head of the Federal bank, it was announced in July that he would be starting an almost equally spectacular new job in 2013 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the major Swiss bank UBS an unexpected and lucrative career move.

NEW YORK Barack Obama, however mixed his accomplishments to date as US president, has sought to rebrand America and reclaim its former signature asset its ability to embody universally admired values. As popular culture is usually the way those values are transmitted, it is worth considering what it is about American cinema, music, and popular literature that makes them so compelling to many other parts of the world.