Sentences with phrase «supplies run short»

It may soon be possible to have new - age appliances, such as refrigerators that scan the contents within and make a shopping list when supplies run short and curtains programmed to swing open at 7 a.m..

«Taking the path of least resistance, policymakers pay little attention to curbing energy consumption - until supplies run short.

Civilization quickly falls into chaos as both food and freshwater supplies run short.

The story will be told from both sides as the orcs invade Azeroth when their food supply runs short.

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Finally, raw expertise may simply be in short supply: with so many TV shows in production, there just aren't enough experienced crew members around to run a tight ship on a tight budget:

Commercialization is really a skill that runs in short supply in Canada.

«Stores running out of supply short term is a real issue,» he says.

While total reserves may mean more in the long run, in the short run the country that leads production controls supply.

Airbnb found this out recently after dueling in the run - up to a San Francisco election over a ballot initiative that would have cut the supply of short - term rentals, affecting the company's business in its hometown.

In the short run, refiners from Europe and Asia could help fill the gap, sending supplies to the U.S. East Coast.

This provides a lot of credit to the economy, which in the short - run, encourages growth, as businesses borrow to build supply, and consumers borrow, which temporarily boosts demand.

This reduces credit to the economy, which in the short - run discourages growth, as businesses don't borrow to build supply, and consumers borrow less, which temporarily reduces demand.

Conditions are generally expected to remain tight, in part due to short - run inelasticity in the supply of ships and continued strong world activity.

That has smothered liquidity and it could soon start running short of supply.

I usually buy in bulk from an oil supplier, but I was running short and purchased some in the health food section of my local grocer.

Leading mailing and packaging equipment supplier AMS will be launching the M1C Labelmaxer, a short - run desktop digital colour label printer; the latest addition to its product line.

Of the extensive range of products we supply, the following are my personal favourites: GU Roctane Energy Gels for fuelling my adventures; Marmot Kompressor Speed Hydration Pack, Marmot Impact Shorts, Marmot Interval SS Shirt for running and Marmot Vertex Short for mountain biking.

Strikers are in short supply and no top ones seem unhappy with their current clubs and are letting their contracts run down.

Frankly, my supply of sympathy and understanding for the idiots who go to midwives promoting themselves as being «with woman» btut basically clear themselves off responsibility in advance is running short.

Ill - defined reforms entrench disengagement with the politics of the centre and, by failing to fundamentally shift the balance of power, exhaust political capital running in short supply.

Efforts by fire fighters to quench the ranging inferno were unsuccessful as they repeatedly ran short of water supply.

For years, U.S. high - tech companies have complained that technically trained workers are in such short supply that they need to import tens of thousands of foreign scientists and engineers to keep labs running and production lines humming.

Hawkesford and his colleagues have added extra copies of an enzyme called SBPase, to increase the supply of a five - carbon molecule that often runs short in plants such as wheat.

The percentage of doctorate holders in nonacademic S&E occupations who are underrepresented minorities increased from 4.4 percent in 1990 to 6.1 in 2005, a substantial increase if it were not over a very small base.18 Myers and Turner concluded that market forces such as wages play a more prominent role in affecting faculty representation in the short run than pipeline factors designed to increase the supply of minority faculty.19

With no worker bees, the supply of peaches, blueberries, squash or other foods could run short.

Well the long and the short of it is, Oliver and Rust is growing and I run the etsy shop and all of my sewing operations out of my office but, I was starting to run out of organizable space for my shipping supplies, pillow covers and etsy stock.

When the owners of the Lotus Cat Food Company, who manufacture an exotic, high priced type of kitty chow, run short of cash, they find themselves in big trouble with their suppliers.

The trouble is that virgins are in short supply nowadays, and she is running into major problems in finding one.

The Germans share a primitive cabin and take orders from young blowhard supervisor Vincent (Reinhardt Wetrek), who gets increasingly exasperated as the deadline for completion looms, supplies and the payroll run short.

There were no short supply of spy movies this year but none topped the edgy, hysterical, badass spy movie throwback Kingsman: The Secret Service, though Steven Spielberg's taut, old - fashion and elegant Bridge of Spies and Guy Ritchie's super smooth, super spy caper The Man From U.N.C.L.E both gave it a run for its money.

For the short run, demand would exceed supply, leaving many swing parents in the public sector.

Aggregate demand and short run aggregate supply worksheet getting students to apply their knowledge to shifts of AD and SRAS.

However, diversifying the pipeline in the short run is limited by constraints on the supply of non-white teachers, which itself is likely a consequence of the impacts of biased expectations and teacher representation discussed above.

With money and supplies always running short in schools, many teachers have to forego more creative lessons or even pay for classroom basics out of their own pockets.

Federal law allows schools to purchase an array of equipment and supplies with Title I money and schools often use this option when other sources run short.

That sales rate reduced to 1100 a month last year, when the outgoing Mazda2 entered run - out and was in shorter supply.

In this dystopian, post-apocalyptic literary novel, Italy is on the brink of collapse: borders are closed, banks are refusing to distribute money to their clients, the postal service is shuttered, and food supplies are running short.

So the green - fluid towels were one - use only, and even if you used every corner of the towels, folding and turning, turning and folding, they would only last a few days each, and the supply was running short, even after we plundered the bathrooms, closets, the garage.)

• Digital printing of «ultra short runs» has empowered book printers to supply books more tightly tied to actual demand.

If it is, in fact, trying to drive consumer prices down (and accept short - term losses) in order to be the only (or major) supplier of books to consumers and / or reseller of books from publishers, this can be viewed as predatory pricing — perhaps good for the consumer in the very short run, but less so in the long run, since there are significant fixed costs to establishing a similar e - book / bricks & mortar presence in the market, particularly in the light of Amazon's potential willingness to drop prices enough to make business untenable for the new entrant.

In practice, the Adam tablet has been in short supply, early customers haven't been that impressed with the screen quality, and the custom software that runs on the tablet is interesting, but arguably not as useful as the standard Android experience.

While we have no idea where oil prices will settle in the short run, it remains our view that oil prices can not stay down at today's depressed prices for too long, largely due to what we believe to be the relatively modest current level of excess capacity, our expectations of continued growth in demand over time, and the high marginal costs for finding and developing new sources of supply.

This reduces credit to the economy, which in the short - run discourages growth, as businesses don't borrow to build supply, and consumers borrow less, which temporarily reduces demand.

I think people were dissuaded from the idea because money supply changes in the short run did not correlate that well with the movements in stock indexes over the next 25 years.

Shelters, who are tasked with the care of many animals at one time, often run short on supplies.

Please note, these volunteer opportunities are for basic but important tasks that help our operations run smoothly (laundry, sweeping / mopping, organizing supplies, yard work, etc.), however, no direct animal care tasks are available through short - term volunteering.

The drug Antizin is the only thing that has been able to keep the infection at bay, but it is beginning to run in short supply.

The problem is that in the last 10 years Nintendo has released three new consoles (one handheld and two home units) along with multiple re-designs of existing systems and every single time their supply chain has run well short of demand.

As with other popular Indie titles to receive physical copies from Limited Run, these editions will be in very short supply.

The following three short pieces will not make a convincing scientific argument that Southern Australia's drought is being driven by a warming planet but municipal governments are facing the grim reality their water supplies could run out by the end of next year if significant rainfall does not occur.