The information passed to my Office is scarce and unconvincing.

From scarce nothing, from scarce nothing seems to swell.

Resources are scarce.

Make yourself scarce.

Clean water is scarce.

Clean water is scarce.

Scarce labor drives wages.

Hard Wisdom for Scarce Water

Someday they may be scarce.

You need to use scarce resources.

I don't know. Because it's scarce.

I never knew they were so scarce

Accommodations in Palm Springs are very scarce.

Time is scarce, so what do we do?

Number two a declining population means scarce labor.

Step out in the alley and make myself scarce.

Such forms of business organization and ownership provided especially effective institutional arrangements under conditions of scarce endowment of capital, entrepreneurship and skill and of inadequate and imperfect information.

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

Of course she ate. Food was scarce for so long.

(h) Scarce impact of the country strategy note on resource mobilization

Everything's scarce in this house, you don't have anything you need

Scarce resources must not be diverted from their intended purposes and the Secretariat's next budget submission should provide the Advisory Committee and Member States with detailed information on the Mission's activities.

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

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.

It is a frustration at the waste of scarce United Nations funds.

(f) Scarce natural resources or an inability to use available resources efficiently

437. Food to sustain biological communities on deep ocean floor is scarce.

The international agencies have an ongoing practice of sharing information on future technical assistance events and seminars on trade in services in order to avoid duplication and combine scarce resources, where appropriate.

In managing the economy we must make the best use of scarce resources.

To assist in allocating scarce resources, a second criterion has recently been added.

The problems we see in the financial markets have very much to do with lack of good information, misaligned incentives, and, in fact, rational responses to the environment. When information is scarce and unevenly distributed, prices may well depart from the reality of fundamentals.

Mr. Tharoor (Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information) said that scarce resources, particularly in the previous two budget cycles, were a common thread running through all the issues that had been raised.

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

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

Where Member States invest scarce resources, we have an obligation to maximize their impact.

It was noted that criminal justice agencies currently maintained scarce data on transnational crime.

In Africa and the Middle East, while information on drug abuse is scarce, regional expertise confirms an increase in the abuse of cannabis and some evidence of increase in the abuse of heroin and ATS.

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

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

We remain committed to democratic institutions, and we continuously allocate scarce resources to human development.

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.

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