Sentences with phrase «for scarce resources»

The most readily drawn conclusion is that relations among individuals are basically competition for scarce resources.

When competing for scarce resources, individuals and societies are seldom civil.

Another war would also compete with the recovery for scarce resources, in terms of both public funding and the attention of the president and policy makers.

So could the desperate need of a nation affected by global warming for scarce resources.

Schools will have to compete with hospitals and nursing homes for scarce resources.

The demand for these scarce resources far exceeds supply.

Climate governance can not be considered only in terms of environmental damage because it is now a part of the economic debate around the competition for scarce resources.

Our shrinking planet can not afford the continuation of the view of individual people or individual nations competing for scarce resources.

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.

According to this theory, economics is a «value - free» science, and the economic world can be defined in terms of the competition for scarce resources between self - interested individuals with unlimited wants.

While security issues from Iran to Syria dominated the three - hour hearing, Kerry also wove climate, food security and competition for scarce resources into a broad new narrative of diplomacy.

Competition in places like Dallas and Houston between public charter schools and independent school districts (ISDs) continue to heat up, while jockeying for scarce resources, land, talent, and students is ever present between charters.

They were also unaware that a degraded environment leads to a scramble for scarce resources and may culminate in poverty and even conflict.

Players are free to roam around to complete side objectives and look for scarce resources, giving the game a sense of urgency to ration weapons and utility.

«The corporate quest for scarce resources will become more rapacious, more violent.

It stresses that when considered in light of various challenges and ongoing activities, climate change can be an opportunity for positive change and action in cities, rather than a competing priority for scarce resources.

In a war - torn future, powerful weapons known as AirMechs dominate the battlefields in the fight for scarce resources.

There, they battle each other for scarce resources.

A huge menu of choice is already available on the level of higher education, because the market is national and competition for the scarce resource of the residential student continues to gets more intense.

«Support from co-workers probably dips in midlife as peers compete for scarce resources (promotion bottlenecks are often encountered during this career stage).

Barriers to research replication are based largely in a scientific culture that pits researchers against each other in competition for scarce resources.

But while most Democrats shied away from linking the attacks that killed nearly 130 people to the aim of the United Nations conference that begins in Paris on Nov. 30, Sanders» words echo one of the Obama administration's favorite themes — that climate change is a «threat multiplier» that will breed conflict around the globe as desperate populations compete for scarce resources.

On the positive side of the ledger, it inspired Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace to work out the mechanics of natural selection based on Malthus's observation that populations tend to increase geometrically (2, 4, 8, 16...), whereas food reserves grow arithmetically (2, 3, 4, 5...), leading to competition for scarce resources and differential reproductive success, the driver of evolution.

If grazing practices have to be altered, it can lead to increased competition for scarce resources, and more conflicts between herders» interests and those of conservationists.

With the advent of competitive reforms such as merit pay, test - based accountability, and market - based systems like vouchers and charters, we are already seeing unintended consequences in the forms of cheating, competition for scarce resources, and a system of winners and losers.

Or more to the point, should we help schools succeed by making them compete (like businesses do) for scarce resources?

What if we all worked together and helped each other, rather than working alone, duplicating efforts and competing for scarce resources?

There is a psychological term called «The Commons Dilema» that neatly sums up human nature when competition for scarce resources is on the line; we all are subject to «The Commons Dilema» at various times throughout our lives.

Throw in personal relationships with bosses, co-worker cliques and fighting for scarce resources (pay, promotions, top assignments) and even the best brains can be taxed.