Sentences with word «paucity»

«One of us, Mr Ralph Osawaru, with staff number 359942 recently committed suicide out of frustration, and one other member, Mr SundayAdeyemo died of untreated ailment, as a result of paucity of funds.

Their likely magnetic or dusty nature has been a much - debated problem, the resolution to which has been hindered by paucity of diagnostic multi-wavelength observations.

The former Kaduna State governor also dismissed claim that the convention may be postponed for paucity of funds.

The previous evening's paucity in mind, I made sure to grab a slice en route to Friday's fixtures, of which openings at Bortolami and PaceWildenstein in Chelsea were the first.

A scientist's tenacity in a belief, despite paucity of evidence and doubt from peers, may lead her to develop a radically different conception of some aspect of our world, but one that is nonetheless true and significant.

Building on paucity of information in the text, at least three possibilities have been proposed.

to be frank its a disgrace we left with such paucity of option when we could ne talking Scherderlin, Vidal etc

«There was a real paucity of role models.

Its a pity you don't respond positively to Gloria's work but your comments touch on a different debate — simplicity as elegance and refinement or simplicity as paucity of content.

So, before some priest, minister, rabbi or iman next claims to you that they know the secrets to life, death, the origins of life on Earth and the origins of the Universe, simply because their parents or church taught them some comforting stories from Greco - Roman Palestine as a child, you might like to reflect upon the overwhelming enormity of the claims they make and the complete paucity of evidence that underwrites those claims.

Moffett says that one of the reasons for the neglect of the Asian dimension in church history is the comparative paucity of available source materials on eastern roots of Christianity outside the Roman empire.

The meeting comes after the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council last fall released a report on sports - related concussions, laying out significant gaps in concussion research and highlighting a concerning paucity of information on concussions in youth athletes.

«The first point that's obvious in any scientific reading of the field is the extreme paucity of data,» says Franklin Zimring, a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley.

As the water rises and the ice recedes, warming continues around the planet, in part exacerbated by a growing paucity of ice to reflect warming sunlight back into space.

People just have determined to believe in atheistic / naturalistic evolution despite the utter paucity of support for it, and the overwhelming evidence (in terms of what we know of the nature and benefit of mutations) against it.

Aside from some tangential discussion about rat fertility and a perceived paucity of subway token booth clerks, conversation during the hearing frequently turned to the capital plan, and just how the M.T.A. hopes to fill the hole.

If he has acquired a different reputation it is because of the even greater paucity of his opponents rather than any actual skill of his own.

This includes «chronic, structural racial injustice — such as the persistent paucity of black faculty members and administrators at Yale, the common experience of being the only black student in some classes, and being disproportionately likely to be stopped and asked for ID — or worse — by campus police officers.»

Great sales people do not let paucity or an abundance of business dictate how they handle a potential client.

There is lack of DNA sequence data for a head - to - head chromosomal fusion, there also exists a decided paucity of data to indicate a cryptic centromere.

Christianity has become a genuinely multicultural world religion, thriving profusely in the idioms of other languages and cultures, marked by a lively cross-cultural and interreligious sensibility, unburdened by the heavy artillery of doctors and councils, and otherwise undaunted by the scandalous paucity of money, trained leadership, infrastructure and resources.

Despite the numerical paucity, however, diversity was excellent.

It doesn't help that there's a stark paucity of science to support one strategy over the other.

Reading the letter on the floor of the House on Tuesday, the speaker, honourable Mathew Kolawole (APC Kabba Bunu) said the Governor cited paucity of funds in the state as some of the reasons why the state government could not conduct local government election.

«For instance, the «brown dwarf desert,» an unexplained paucity of objects that are larger than giant planets but smaller than stars.

Astronomers have wondered if there might be something different about planet formation in star clusters to explain this strange paucity.

Allesina found «a severe paucity of names,» which was most pronounced in engineering, law, medicine, geography, and pedagogy and also in the South of Italy.

«One might really fancy,» he wrote in his diary, «that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.»

A fine ensemble cast compensates for the narrative paucity of 2 Days in the Valley — the current winner of the «hit man crime / comedy of the month» sweepstakes.

The general paucity of supplementary material reinforces the idea that this is a prologue, the success of which is wholly reliant on its second and third acts.

THE DVD Paramount presents Young Sherlock Holmes on a bare - bones DVD whose paucity of supplementary material is more justified this time out for a selection from the studio's»80s genre cache than was the case with the thorny Dragonslayer.

, there is a desperate paucity of good acting for most of the film's runtime.

So it comes as no surprise that Disney, dealing with a congenital paucity of imagination, has reached the point where it's actually making movies based on a portion of a movie.

Things are fleshed out at their own pace, which in turn makes them compelling enough not to notice the slight paucity of plot.

To be sure, the sheer paucity of funding places a serious limit on the quality of federally funded education research and evaluation, yet this hardly explains all the problems of education research and evaluation today.

Add to this the CRPE finding that the biggest obstacle — by far — faced by choice - empowered families is the continued paucity of high - quality options.

The data highlights the ongoing paucity of state funding for public schools, said State Superintendent Jack O'Connell.

One thing we all agreed on, however, was the notable paucity of vertical shots.

Despite leaving the country during the period of Perestroika, Roiter's artistic output retains a heavy hint of his Russian past: the recurring green that recalls the pervasive Russian military, the economy of forms and materials reflective of pervasive paucity, and traces of early twentieth century Russian avant - garde influences.

She works with an eye to extremes — monstrous excess, alarming paucity — creating a variety of objects that exist somewhere on the continuum between pure fleshiness and pure cartoonishness.

The school, in general, and its Italy summer program, more specifically, were established to address a troubling paucity of necessary artistic archetypes I observed in both young and mature artists in Israel when first coming here.

Minimalism's impact on subsequent generations of contemporary artists begins with Postminimalism, which utilized the movement's deliberate paucity of formal means to explore a range of concerns including process, the dematerialization of the object, the performative nature of art, and the structural properties of light.

Guerrilla Girls formed in New York in 1985 when the group produced a series of protest posters highlighting the stunning paucity of female artists, and near - total absence of black artists, represented in major museums and art galleries.

Text in Stark's hands is something of a pregnant paucity, sometimes potent with distilled meaning, often marooned in latent potential.