Italy seems to be coming close to that point of no return; it is rapidly exhausting its reserves of international goodwill as well as its reserves of foreign currency.

This is no mean achievement in an art which is popularly supposed to be rapidly exhausting a limited stock of deception devices.

Turrill's flanks lay unprotected and the Marines were rapidly exhausting their ammunition.

The attractions of the capital, Vientiane - now a scrappy roofscape crouched by the Mekong River - he rapidly exhausted.

Crown Prince Rupprecht expressed concern on 5 August that the weather conditions were rapidly exhausting the German infantry.

The city, however, is rapidly exhausting its stock of vacant buildings and must increasingly rely on new construction to create "desperately needed housing," the Mayor said.

Indeed, I saw that the wolves were quickly tiring; the frenzy of their assault rapidly exhausted them.

They were breeding themselves into planetary famine, and rapidly exhausting their irreplaceable resources, such as fossil fuels.

The firm was losing millions of dollars, but perhaps more important, it was rapidly exhausting its buying power.

The blackness, however, proved the deciding factor-with no food in years and no light for photosynthesis, I rapidly exhausted the last of my energy reserves.