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.

When food is scarce, people share.

When information is plentiful, the scarce resource is attention.

Conflict is increasing as communities compete for scarce resources.

Resources are scarce.

The information passed to my Office is scarce and unconvincing.

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

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

Hard Wisdom for Scarce Water

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

These are places where water is so scarce year after year that crop production is marginal at best.

However, all inductive reasoning where data is too scarce for statistical relevance is inherently based on anecdotal evidence.

Number two a declining population means scarce labor.

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.

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

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.

Even at their best, all job boards do is allocate scarce talent resources they don t create them.

Surface water is scarce in Botswana and less than 5 of the agriculture in the country is sustainable by rainfall.

Things have value when they are both desirable and scarce.

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

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

Equity is not scarce for viable banks, and the science of complex risk weights and stress tests is a harmful illusion.

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.

Desalination of salt water is another capital intensive option, which is used particularly in water scarce areas and for high value uses.

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?

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

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

Of course, this is a fallacy when resources are scarce, but even economists never thought that growth would continue forever.

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.

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.