Sentences with phrase «over scarce resources»

Self - sufficient 15 years ago, China is now a major importer of crude, which has pushed global prices up to record highs and led to friction with the US and Japan over scarce resources.

At a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Warner joined former high - ranking military personnel and military analysts to stress that climate change poses national security threats, including the possibility of increased conflicts over scarce resources.

Prince Charles said he was one of those who warned many years ago that there would be rising conflict over scarce resources if the issue was not tackled.

In my opinion, the war has been a struggle over scarce resources in a time of growing population, and we will see more of these conflicts in the future.

As he projected, «There will be fiercer struggles over scarce resources, starker divisions along factional lines.»

A missing arm, protruding prostheses, raw face, and heavy diamond earring support a darker narrative about the bloody effects of conflicts in Africa waged over scarce resources controlled by the West.

Studies have shown that dogs will fight over scarce resources, but that they don't organise themselves into any kind of consistent ranking system, with one dog dominating the others.

Re-investing in public education so that schools serving our most vulnerable children aren't forced to compete over scarce resources would also be a welcome disruption.

Public school families are fighting over scarce resources, and the reality is that school districts like Freehold Borough have seen significant student population increases without corresponding dollars and schools like University Heights Charter School in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack funding.

But what else should we expect from an educational system whose primary social function is to monitor competition over the scarce resources of wealth and power?

It is regrettable, because in the fight over these scarce resources, each of us fears being revealed as greedy, insecure, envious and deceitful.

Not exact matches

The generous leave policies are no doubt a privilege for employees of companies with plenty of resources that are competing over scarce talent.

SCARCE supply and growing demand from the resources sector have helped push Perth's hotels market to the top of the class, with the Western Australian capital outperforming all major Australian cities over 2011, according to new research.

You will need to be confident that you and your business are capable of balancing the competing demands on scarce resources, by first obsessing over customer experience and product.

One cost often neglected in the debate over recombinant DNA research concerns the allocation of scarce resources that might be used otherwise.

«It is, therefore, unfortunate and ridiculous that the government which has caused monumental pains to the civil servants and their relations could commit the very scarce resources of the state in buying over 143 pages (so far) of the Leadership newspaper of October 19th and 20th 2017 editions to mislead the reading public that his government is not owing salaries of civil servants.

The field of bioethics has addressed a broad swathe of human inquiry, ranging from debates over the boundaries of life (e.g. abortion, euthanasia), surrogacy, the allocation of scarce health care resources (e.g. organ donation, health care rationing) to the right to refuse medical care for religious or cultural reasons.

Over the long term, net exporters may want to alter trade policies to avoid creating their own water shortages or raise prices to reflect the cost of increasingly scarce water resources.

The Fertile Crescent has been plagued with scarce water resources throughout history, Gleick said, adding that the region also has a long history of conflicts over water.

Legal battles have already been fought in the US over scarce water resources in regions with nuclear power plants, including the Catawba river basin in the Carolinas and the Apalachicola / Chattahoochee / Flint river basin in Georgia, Florida and Alabama.

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.

Our hope is to make this tool publicly available so that governments and agencies can track children's development globally over time, and make more informed decisions about how to allocate scarce resources to benefit the largest number of children.

With an astronomical price tag of $ 150 million last year (and an estimated cumulative $ 1 billion spent over 12 years), almost no one can support wasting scarce resources on teachers who aren't teaching, many who haven't taught in years.

Malloy, like newly sworn - in Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, has been a consistent supporter of efforts to privatize public education by turning over scarce public resources to charter schools despite the fact that these schools discriminate against Latino students, students who need help learning the English language and students who require special education services.

Most people would probably agree that there are connections between peace on the one hand and an environment on the other in which scarce resources such as oil, water, minerals or timber are quarrelled over.

While the global economy has been shaky over the last few years, I can't imagine scarce resources not becoming more valuable over time as they continue to become more and more rare and as the global population continues to rise and countries needing more basic materials to build, expand or consume energy.

It involves the struggle for survival and international conflict over scarce water resources.

With climate change leading to further decreases in already scarce resources like arable land and water, poor populations are going to be pushed further to, or even over, the edge.

And if fossil fuel burning is eliminated today, we can expect * more * wars over artificially scarce energy resources and with countries not willing to play ball.

My plan charges a fair rent to all who chose to use this scarce resource over all alternatives, and pays that fair rent to the true owners of the scarce resource — all of us — in exchange for our consent.

• Over the long - term it is very likely that the unit costs of energy will rise as resources become scarcer, the UK becomes more dependent on imports and there is a bigger shift towards green energy policies.

An argument can also be made that rising ethnic conflicts can be linked to competition over natural resources that are increasingly scarce as a result of climate change, but many other intervening and contributing causes of inter - and intra-group conflict need to be taken into account.

As this article from the Fulton County Daily Report (10/17/07) describes, record droughts across Atlanta are leading to increased litigation over how scarce resources will be allocated.

As I mentioned above, there are but four Military Judges, and I'm not clear whether it is required that one of these preside over every court martial, or whether this scarce resource is reserved for special courts martial.

The key here is to ensure an efficient distribution of scarce resources whether internal paralegals, outside counsel and in - house lawyers and over time move the more skilled resources up the pyramid so that they are focused on the areas of highest risk and financial / legal exposure.

This 1967 novel is set in a dystopian future where resources are scarce, which leads society to implement a rule that requires everyone over the age of 21 to voluntarily end their lives.

In the absence of basic assets, «the streets» in impoverished African - American communities become the major lifestyle contender and developmental niche for many young people.3,5,12 - 14 Social relations on the street are characterized by an individualistic, competitive, and predatory ethos, where «hustling» and «getting over» are valid ways of securing scarce resources.

Disputes over child custody and access tend to consume inordinate amounts of court time, parents» scarce financial resources and these disputes cause parents and children untold harm on many levels.