It is a major resource base of the Philippines.
With unemployment among them approaching 90 percent, they also want to use the territory as a resource base.
Russia wants to establish its Arctic possessions as a major resource base by 2020.
They have a large resource base and tons of gold.
We have no general checks even on preserving our resource base.
That loss has inflicted a serious blow upon our resource base.
I would hate to lose so valuable a resource base.
These constitute the resource base of an economy oriented toward foreign trade.
The Soviet government built a variety of heavy industries on that resource base.
The problem is the overall pressure on ecosystems and the natural resource base.