Resources are scarce.

Telephone booths are as scarce as hen's teeth around here.

Girls get aborted before they're even born when there are scarce resources.

They are scarce they are expensive and we only have a certain range of it.

Both are important, and both require allocation of scarce resources that are increasingly hard to acquire.

Farmers living in areas where food security and resources are scarce lack financial capital.

Clean water is scarce.

Clean water is scarce.

Scarce labor drives wages.

Hard Wisdom for Scarce Water

Most of our countries are ill equipped, because of scarce resources, to defend themselves against such encroachments.

You need to use scarce resources.

Time is scarce, so what do we do?

Number two a declining population means scarce labor.

Canada believes we must refocus our energy on this issue to ensure that scarce humanitarian resources are indeed being allocated where needs are greatest.

Finally, Internet policymaking and regulation is an area that requires levels of expertise and resources that are often scarce in developing countries.

With the lean season (when food is traditionally scarce) now well under way, an increasing number are relying on external food aid.

Pressure on water resources due to increased crop intensity brings about increased water resource competition in areas where water resources are scarce.

The information passed to my Office is scarce and unconvincing.

The system of health protection for workers is a complex one, so the data on health in the workplace are still very scarce.

These scarce credits are, in their majority, applied in the areas of fast returns in commerce of consumable goods or in agricultural commercialization.

Nearly five years after the adoption of that resolution, women are still scarce around negotiating tables, in constitution making bodies and in political councils.

It is the ultimate scarce resource, the one planet that we share.

It's not like scarce objects, where sharing means we each get less.

In particular, the existence of cartels in the medical industry has especially harmful effects in developing countries, where these vital goods and services are scarce.

Such international efforts are important for helping countries with scarce resources, especially developing countries, to focus their commitments and funding on attaining the agreed targets.

In areas where resources are scarce, data on education and employment status of persons with disabilities can serve as proxy data for the equalization of opportunities.

First, such agreements threaten local food security and employment as fish become increasingly scarce.

Regrettably, our efforts to build up our own human resource base by utilizing scarce development resources are being thwarted by the recruitment policies of some rich developed countries.

Data on social exclusion and its gender dimension in some developing countries and their impact on achievement of the Millennium Development Goals are scarce or of variable quality.

This is the result of scarce financial resources, which should provide for better work conditions.

Of course, upward pressure on commodity prices also stems from supply side challenges. It is not just that global supplies of resources are increasingly scarce, but also that supplies are increasingly falling into inefficient hands.

The risk was a less than optimal allocation of scarce resources, or a waste of resources.

But evidence of any consistent use of precious commodities to support Al Qaida terrorism is scarce.

c) Facilitating informed management decisions based on reliable data analysis in an environment of scarce resources.

Moreover, economic costs for the individual and the home economy are likely to be minimal owing to scarce employment opportunities at home and the limited capacity for collecting income taxes.

And it is largely an issue that we've created for ourselves through unsustainable use of scarce resources.

And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.

And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.

If the Millennium Development Goals are to be met, an environment conducive to expanded employment must be created either by an investment growth nexus or by a redistribution of scarce resources.

When resources are scarce, or so degraded that they can no longer sustain livelihoods, or inequitably distributed, conflict invariably ensues. In Africa, we need to manage our resources sustainably, accountably, and responsibly.

And the limiting factor, there and here, is not resources, because they're plentiful, but knowledge, which is scarce.

This is particularly useful to small countries which have scarce human and financial resources to draft individual laws.

Most corporations, after all, are merely convenient mechanisms for ensuring that scarce global capital is used at maximum efficiency, to the benefit of all. Are famously liberal Hollywood film directors spending too much time going to anti globalization rallies?

Expansions usually start collapsing when labor gets too scarce and too expensive. But the current expansion is unusual in that, due to unique (in the modern era) circumstances, labor constraints are not the problem.