Sentences with phrase «very scarce resource»

High - quality, engaging, memorable law firm content is a very scarce resource right now; see what you can do about cornering this market at your firm.

If you're like me, free time is a very scarce resource.

Uranium was thought to be a very scarce resource, so breeder reactors were considered essential.

Perhaps it makes sense to tackle the biggest underlying myth first: the one that says land is a very scarce resource and that we are living on a densely populated island.

The racers make do with very scarce resources, go to superhuman lengths to achieve their goal, make a series of decisions based on limited information, and always, always, keep moving forward — regardless of the setbacks they suffer.

«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 increase is «a good move» given «the context of the very scarce resources,» says Thomas Grumbly, president of the Supporters of Agricultural Research Foundation in Arlington, Virginia.

Not exact matches

That's a very tall order, especially when resources are scarce (most schools get, in the end, about $ 1 from the federal government to spend on school food) and there is no money in the budget for food / nutrition education.

Alternatively he can say that he has had to change his position and is doing so for the great moral purpose of helping the low paid into work and to ensure better targeting of scarce resources on the very neediest, including poor pensioners.

Namibia, which gained its independence in 1990, is still very much a developing country, so funds are tight and other resources scarce, Mumbengegwi says.

Addressing these very clear threats remains the top priority for the allocation of scarce tiger conservation resources.

Concentrating resources in the «healthy» part of the system is especially important at a time when funding is very limited and new positions are scarce: two conditions that are currently met by the Italian academic system.

Bali is an island with scarce water resources and ecosystems that are not very well protected and respected.

We started in a very humble way, betting all our scarce resources and a lot of hard work in it, coming from a local fishermen family.

c. despite your knowledge that there are very scarce economic resources, you still support CO2 mitigation.

b) almost as a rule, jurisdictions have measures that constrain most exploitation of specific scarce resources — this is the very basis of Capitalism — and so are familiar with how well this generally works, for instance with mobile telecommunications and the regulated auction of bandwidth, or laws against kidnap or extortion for ransom;

«Large scale war or civil collapse is almost an inevitability in regions facing very scarce freshwater resources, very limited agricultural - land / productivity, and large - populations.

Going beyond the difficulties of determining land ownership and rights to resources, these include «extremely challenging governance conditions in many tropical forest countries, complex land - use pressures due to scarce agricultural land and unclear land tenure situations, very high profits from alternative land - uses such as destructive logging or conversion for cash crops,» says Ebeling.

• 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.

The LPP was set up to let the law schools off the hook for bloating up in size and then virtually never failing anyone (lest grant and tuition money go a-glimmering) and the government off the hook for its negligent misallocation of scarce education resources and the Law Society off the hook from having to be the bad guy and flunk people at the bar exam stage and off the hook for having made a very bad decision to reduce articling from 12 months to 10.