Surpluses in example sentence

So, while post-crisis Asia focused in the 2000’s on repairing the financial vulnerabilities that had wreaked such havoc – namely, by amassing huge foreign-exchange reserves, turning current-account deficits into surpluses, and reducing its outsize exposure to short-term capital inflows – it failed to rebalance its economy’s macro structure.

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We've never had such gargantuan surpluses before.

In many ways, this is a great success story of human civilization, of the agricultural surpluses that we set out to achieve 12,000 years ago.

Wright points out that in certain circumstances, cooperation or non-violence can benefit both parties in an interaction, such as gains in trade when two parties trade their surpluses and both come out ahead, or when two parties lay down their arms and split the so-called peace dividend that results in them not having to fight the whole time.

And with the food surpluses that these techniques produced, it was no longer necessary for everyone to farm.

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