Sentences with phrase «by resource shortages»

On average, 35 per cent of Australian Year 4 students attended schools in which instruction was «somewhat affected» by resource shortages and a further 2 per cent attended schools that were «affected a lot», compared to the international averages of 62 per cent and 6 per cent, respectively.

Not exact matches

He launched Canadian Hunter Exploration in 1973, a year characterized by an oil crisis abroad that led to shortages at gasoline pumps in the U.S. Closer to home, confrontations intensified between the federal and provincial governments over managing Alberta's energy resources.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

By limited resources I mean a shortage of money or knowledge.

In theory the law promotes a flexible system aimed at crafting tailored and limited solutions that meet a persons need for assistance, but in reality it has been plagued by a lack of resources, incomplete data and a shortage of guardians.

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

• A shortage of human resources and equipment was most often reported as a difficulty in Asia (64 %) and MENA (61.5 %), followed by Africa (51.6 %) and Europe (51.4 %).

Considering what is possible and what is desirable in our energy future, Smil argues that human dependence on fossil fuels must be reduced not because of impending resource shortages but because of the environmental, economic, and political problems caused by our current consumption.

The population of Nicaragua is expected to grow by 37 % by 2050, so water shortages and pressure on natural resources are already set to increase, limiting sustainable growth and public welfare.

But «the driver for this linkage,» Zhang says,» is resource shortage, mainly agricultural production, which is caused by climate change.»

A study by the World Resources Institute last October showed 51 percent of planned coal - power plants in China were in regions with severe water shortages, potentially pitting energy production against agriculture and basic needs for clean water.

By being less reliant on imports, they would be partially insulated from climate vagaries, global resource shortages and distant military conflicts.

Second is the challenge of skilled human resources, where an overall shortage was further compounded by inequitable distribution of skilled workers.

The fight for these scarce resources has divided Earth's population into three main factions: the Cowbots, who live by mining asteroids and cultivating moisture from the land; the Scrappers, who prey on the Cowbots and pillage their communities for supplies; and the Royalists, who live unaffected by steam shortages and impose their superiority over the Cowbots.

Air conditioning and refrigeration is undoubtedly essential, but whilst the industry will continue to grow it is facing a real skills shortage that can only be eased by the investment of time, support and resources from schools, governments and businesses.

In a recent series of interviews, human resource officials in six school districts and a statewide charter school system reported a variety of ways and degrees to which schools are being affected by a shortage that many predict will worsen.

Surely the sector should be looking at the shortage of skilled teachers in the market, and also the resource planning undertaken by schools.

This includes the new dome that was just completed in the Sandy - damaged Rockaway Peninsula in Queens; several education programs, including some online and more performative programs staged by the magazine Triple Canopy; two Francis Alÿs videos; and support for EXPO 1: New York, a «festival - as - institution» that tackles issues like environmental protection, social justice, shortages of resources, and population growth.

In 2004, the Dane made his name as a green contrarian with his bestselling book The Skeptical Environmentalist, and outraged scientists and green groups around the world by arguing that many claims about global warming, overpopulation, energy resources, deforestation, species loss and water shortages are not supported by analysis.

Meanwhile we see all sorts of problems caused by overpopulaation and resource shortages, whether it's water shortages in Georgia and Lake Powell, genocide in Africa, oil wars in the Middle East, deforestation, wiping out of commercial fisheries, illegel immigration, etc..

As droughts have worsened, water bottling companies like Coca - Cola, PepsiCo, andNestlé are finding themselves under the microscope of public opinion for taking public water resources, packaging them for substantial profit, and then failing to adequately respond to public concerns about their local impacts, lack of transparency of data sharing, and their role in helping share the burdens imposed by water shortages and drought.

Kenya, a country of vast beauty and natural resources, is plagued by water and power shortages and is headed for ecological disaster as a result of greed and corruption, asserts 1992 Goldman Prize winner and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai.

While rain and snow would still help replenish Asian rivers in the absence of glaciers, the change could hamper efforts to manage seasonal water resources by altering when fresh water supplies are available in areas already prone to water shortages.

By 2031, the ERCOT system could see ramping shortages when demand peaks over 18 GW in the evening and other resources are inadequate, but such issues were not present when researchers modeled for a scenario with high energy storage and electric vehicle adoption.

Kenya, a country of vast beauty and natural resources, is plagued by water and power shortages and is headed for ecological disaster as a result of greed and corruption, asserts... Read More

2007/04/17: TehranTimes: China's economy reaching environmental limits China's booming economy is being increasingly constrained by shortages of energy and natural resources as well as environmental concerns — forcing the nation to seek a more efficient growth model.

While the event will have no shortage of high level speakers — the opening keynote address will be given by Mosebenzi Zwane, the minister of mineral resources of South Africa, while Kenya's former trade minister Mukhisa Kituyi, the current secretary general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, will also present.

Skill shortages are escalating, according to a recent resourcing and talent planning survey by the CIPD.

More than half of resource and mining employers say productivity is affected by talent shortages, and respondents are more optimistic about next year with 88 per cent expecting increased or stable business activity.