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

Leaders time is a scarce resource. They cannot afford to attend multiple summits for each transnational issue.

Resources are scarce.

At the same time, in Africa and Central Asia, water will become more scarce, and drought will reduce food supplies.

Scarce labor drives wages.

Our resources are scarce.

Hard Wisdom for Scarce Water

When food is scarce, people share.

In the scarce bandwidth media of the past, in which space and time were limited, the media had to select stories worthy of reporting.

Hollande s reference point seems to be the post war idyll of his youth, a time of rapid growth, demographic recovery, scarce immigration, and scant global competition.

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.

When information is plentiful, the scarce resource is attention.

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

Things have value when they are both desirable and scarce.

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

The information passed to my Office is scarce and unconvincing.

The Roque Santeiro Market was established in its current venue in the 1980 s, at a time when the country was still beaten down by war and provisions were scarce.

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 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.

But our power of analysis has grown over time, and we now observe perhaps more keenly that poverty, the struggle for scarce resources and socio economic injustices lie at the heart of conflicts.

At a time when good news is scarce, I am pleased to congratulate the International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General, Mr. Mohamed ElBareidi, on receiving this year's Nobel Prize for Peace.

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.

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.

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

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.

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