But time is running out.

Are We Running Out of Oil (Again)?

But time eventually does run out.

Indeed, Abbas s time is running out.

Indeed, time is running out.

Nearly 20 years later, this patience has worn thin.

The consequences could be disastrous. Time is fast running out.

But there is no impatience for a bigger government role.

We have been extremely patient, but that patience is wearing thin.

After five years of global financial sector scandals on a grand scale, patience is wearing thin.

There are ominous indications that the relative forbearance of this group may end.

For example, the classic 1972 bestseller Limits to Growth predicted that the world would run out of gold in 1981, silver and mercury in 1985, and zinc in 1990.

Whereas governments and government contractors generally enjoy job security, private companies know that the money may run out.

Time is running out, however, for them to satisfy their supporters and silence their critics by achieving it.

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

Sell that ye have, and give alms provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

After five years of global financial sector scandals on a grand scale, patience is wearing thin. As Eduardo Porter of The New York Times put it,

But, after a year of economic sanctions and negotiations with no result, Israel s patience on what it regards as an existential issue is wearing thin.

If the IMF were to ease the terms on its Greek loans, it would likely face fierce protests from its less wealthy debtors and risk compromising its status as senior creditor an outcome that even the Fund s largely quiescent Board of Governors is unlikely to accept.

Since a country s currency can be a reserve currency only if others are willing to accept it as such, time may be running out for the dollar.

But the majority of experts agree that the world will not run out of oil anytime soon even with growing Chinese and Indian demand.

So a company that fires all its workers and then ships from stock can look very productive until it runs outs of stock.

Many Russian officials will lose patience with Russia s remaining a status quo power, and one hopes that they will not seek confrontation.

Economic rot sets in as the ranks of dependent citizens grow, productive citizens dwindle in number, and society eventually runs out of other people s money.

For example, the authors of The Limits to Growth predicted that before 2013, the world would have run out of aluminum, copper, gold, lead, mercury, molybdenum, natural gas, oil, silver, tin, tungsten, and zinc.

I threw it into an orbit, and it only had one color, and when it got to the center, the paint kept running out, so I had to run in there, didn't have any control over the spigot remotely.

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

Willingness could be exhausted if the EU budget is further expanded without reducing Germany s net contribution and narrowing the gap between its financing and voting rights.

It is important that the protagonists in the crisis understand that the international community is starting to lose patience, given the unjustified shilly shallying that is taking place and the failure to adhere to the commitments undertaken.

Unfortunately, the recovery is liable to run out of steam, and may even be followed by a second economic downturn, though I am not sure whether it will occur in 2010 or 2011.

Unless Syria s rulers, like other leaders in the Arab world, begin to appreciate that freedom is a fundamental human right, even the most quiescent people s patience may wear dangerously thin.

Perhaps the Portuguese time buying strategy points the way ahead. But time eventually does run out.

The story's premise is that the world will run out of oil faster than we thought, as these billions of people chase their dreams of big houses and sport utility vehicles.

There are ominous indications that the relative forbearance of this group may end. If that happens, the insurgency will be superseded by a much more dangerous sectarian civil war.

At least some of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) appear to be running out of steam economically and, while new emerging powers, such as Mexico, are tempting, they may prove to be more fragile than they look.

Norway welcomed the High Commissioner's decision to conduct an annual review of all the protracted refugee situations with a view to formulating comprehensive plans of action, when conditions allowed, and stressed that the patience of the international community with regard to the refugee situation was running out.

That message still resonates today, though it was spectacularly wrong. For example, the authors of The Limits to Growth predicted that before 2013, the world would have run out of aluminum, copper, gold, lead, mercury, molybdenum, natural gas, oil, silver, tin, tungsten, and zinc.

As citizens start relying on redistribution, productive work is discouraged, and real wealth creation suffers. Economic rot sets in as the ranks of dependent citizens grow, productive citizens dwindle in number, and society eventually runs out of other people s money.

By the decade s end, after an Arab oil embargo and the Iranian Revolution, domestic production was in decline, Americans were importing half their petroleum needs at 15 times the price, and it was widely believed that the country was running out of natural gas.

In a Ponzi scheme, early investors are handsomely rewarded at the expense of latecomers until the supply of participants is exhausted. Such practices, illegal as practiced by Bernard Madoff, are functionally equivalent to what happens during an asset price bubble.

Meanwhile, New York was growing impatient, letting the Palestinian team know that their segments were late and, under what was essentially a military occupation, the Palestinians began to rethink whether this was the right kind of project to which to devote their energies.

Is it possible to fall out of love with your own country? For two years, I, like many Americans, have been focused intently on documenting, exposing, and alerting the nation to the Bush administration s criminality and its assault on the Constitution and the rule of law a story often marginalized at home.