When information is plentiful, the scarce resource is attention.

The information passed to my Office is scarce and unconvincing.

When information is scarce and unevenly distributed, prices may well depart from the reality of fundamentals.

Resources are scarce.

People aren't fighting over scarce housing or lucrative jobs. They are befriending one another, sharing information, and accumulating status, points, and experiences.

Scarce labor drives wages.

Our resources are scarce.

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When food is scarce, people share.

It is almost enough to have one longing again for the day when information was a scarce resource and one had to go out to find it.

It never sold in numbers comparable to the Game Boy or even the Watara Supervision, and as a result information on the console and its games remains scarce.

Number two a declining population means scarce labor.

Conflict is increasing as communities compete for scarce resources.

Jobs are scarce, and the future looks bleak everywhere.

People aren't fighting over scarce housing or lucrative jobs.

This would help reduce consumption of scarce natural resources.

In Germany, food was scarce, but only 5 died.

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.

Things have value when they are both desirable and scarce.

Other than peat, dolomite, and limestone, natural resources are 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.

Society would be spending scarce resources on losers rather than winners.

Schools were scarce between World War I and World War II.

Evidence for prevalence of pain in newly diagnosed cancer is scarce.

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.

It can be argued that the sophisticated loan packages created by banks in recent years are, likewise, a new and unknown product, so information and experience to aid pricing has been scarce and dispersed.

The same is true for ground water. Land is also increasingly scarce.

Twenty percent of global GDP already is produced in water scarce areas.

Expansions usually start collapsing when labor gets too scarce and too expensive.

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.

With resources so scarce, developing countries cannot afford the luxury of such waste.

But excessive secrecy leads to scarce resources being diverted into wild goose chases.

But even the scarce ingredients they have managed to find are running out.

We humans are very good at figuring out ways to make scarce things desirable.

Yet many young people are ill prepared for secondary school, and places are scarce.

At a time when bank capital is scarce, that impediment carries significant economic costs.

Early colonial pioneers in New Zealand had sheep aplenty, but goose was relatively scarce.

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.

By misstating the problems, these approaches threaten to divert scarce resources into the wrong remedies.

Despite scarce media coverage in Japan, the film has been shared widely on social media.

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

Capitalism is, among other things, a struggle between individual people over the control of scarce resources.

Waste combustion is particularly popular in countries such as Japan where land is a scarce resource.

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