Resources are scarce.

The problems are too complicated.

In addition there had been a deterioration in health and education services and a severe lack of drinking water.

They were scarce in comparison to the populations of other insects, representing only about 1 of the entire insect population.

History In ancient times Heilongjiang was far from any literate civilization, and information was sparse.

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

There is population pressure and economic pressure related to cattle raising, for instance and competition for ever scarcer resources, such as land and water.

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.

Indeed, one can imagine black marketeers and smugglers buying where grain is available and transporting it to sell to countries where it is not.

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

If the second person did not like the split, he could reject it (for example, if it was stingy) and both people would get zero.

I represent the part of a global community that is imbued with an ideal vision driven by lofty goals and fired by a desire to achieve the most with scarce resources.

(Such low hanging fruit has been increasingly scarce for the Republican Party, which is beleaguered by the perception that it has been hijacked by its most extreme elements.)

It is much better and much cheaper to invest in post conflict peacebuilding, which is also preventive in nature, than to expend scarce resources on relapses that can be prevented.

American assistance, as a US General Accounting Office report made clear in early December, is barely trickling in.

Secondly, in many instances, it is the politics of poverty that lead to and exacerbate conflicts, involving competition between groups, including civilians, for scarce resources.

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.

If we invest now, on the right scale and in the right manner, in tackling this epidemic, we could free up scarce resources desperately needed for development much sooner than we think.

They accumulate fat reserves in their hind legs and the base of their tail before the dry winter season, when food and water are scarce, and can exhibit daily and prolonged torpor during the dry season.

Populist policies that transfer scarce budget funds to hundreds of millions of rural men and women end up encouraging them to withdraw their labor services, driving up wages and undermining international competitiveness.

But there is also a more troubling possibility if, by proceeding on our current profligate path, we succeed in making natural resources scarce, we will require a new wave of technology, regardless of the cost, to rescue us from calamity.

The first bad news is that the chances of getting treatment are extremely slim to none, and that's because most of the blindness alleviation programs in the country are focused on adults, and there are very, very few hospitals that are actually equipped to treat children.

And it lay precisely in that insatiable curiosity, that irrepressible desire to know, no matter what the subject, no matter what the cost, even at a time when the keepers of the Doomsday Clock are willing to bet even money that the human race won't be around to imagine anything in the year 2100, a scant 93 years from now.

The state financed their purchases and investment projects with seemingly inexhaustible oil revenues. But now, with oil prices down sharply, Russia s export revenue has plummeted by 30 this year, and state funds have become very scarce.

But perhaps what countries really fear is not so much high prices but a total market breakdown and descent into an autarkic Mad Max world in which oil is scarce, no country is willing to allow trade in the oil it produces, and there is no world market clearing price.

The Committee noted, as it has done in the past, that it was difficult to fulfil its functions comprehensively under article 15 of the Convention as a result of the absence of any copies of petitions pursuant to paragraph 2 (a) and owing to the fact that the copies of the reports received pursuant to paragraph 2 (b) contain only scant information directly relating to the principles and objectives of the Convention.