Sentences with phrase «widespread shortages of»

«The boom period was marked by easy credit and overbuilding, but today we have tight mortgage credit and widespread shortages of homes for sale,» he said.

An inadequate supply of parts is partly to blame for widespread shortages of Droid Incredible, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam said on Friday.

California must take purposeful steps now if the state is to avoid more acute, widespread shortages of teachers.

Magnesium deficiency is almost as common as the widespread shortages of zinc and selenium.

Potential cancer treatments are loitering in the wings as clinical trials are delayed by widespread shortages of common chemotherapy drugs.

The country also is struggling with widespread shortages of basic foods and medicine.

Ukip's poster campaign suggesting that builders are being forced out of work by immigrants was looking shakey today, after the building industry reported a widespread shortage of skilled workers.

Even if our nation's schools are not beset by a widespread shortage of qualified teachers and teachers are paid salaries comparable to other professionals, there are still those who believe that teachers» pay is too low, that their salaries are simply not commensurate with our expectations of a good education for our children.

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Citizens of the crisis - torn nation are struggling to cope with widespread food shortages, the collapse of its traditional currency and hyperinflation — which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast to hit 13,000 percent in 2018.

I can recall waiting in line with my late father for hours to get a tank full of gas because shortages were so widespread that refineries around the country sat idle.

This is consistent with the recent strength in the labour market and with liaison, where reports of skill shortages remain widespread.

That said, difficulties in meeting demand and reports of binding labour shortages are not yet widespread.

Moreover, Folkenberg has taken a stand for reducing the staff of the General Conference because of the shortage of funds and widespread demands that more tithe be retained at lower levels, and is already implementing this policy vigorously.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Market News reported widespread concern in 2014 about tightening organic dairy supplies, with supermarkets in many parts of the United States posting signs about organic milk shortages by the end of the year.

By focusing Labour's local and European elections campaign on the «bread and butter» issues of housing stock shortage, rising housing prices, zero - hour contracts and a widespread sense of general economic insecurity, Miliband is trying to diffuse the electoral challenge posed by UKIP.

The rise of tuberculosis (TB) in Zimbabwe during the socio - economic crisis of 2008 - 9 has been linked to widespread food shortage, according to a new study led by Canadian researchers from the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health published in PLOS ONE.

Yet, despite these widespread ob — gyn shortages, there is still little hard data on the long - term effects of these health access gaps.

But even as companies are hiring — even at a time of widespread claims of a shortage of candidates with scientific and technical skills — those with the most advanced training are finding themselves with few opportunities.

Associate Professor Carol Reid from the University of Western Sydney (UWS) says there is a teacher shortage in Australia, but the problem is not as widespread as we are led to believe.

As teacher shortages once again become widespread in California and across the nation, discussions of how to recruit and retain high - quality teachers are occupying center stage in policy circles.

Widespread media reports of local teacher shortages have become a hot topic in education since the summer of 2015.

«Back then it was a widespread practice because there was such a shortage of rental units.

It was the hot Christmas gift of 2017, with widespread shortages reported, selling 4.8 million units in the United States, according to a recent Nintendo announcement.

Evidence for this is already appearing in the form of so - called «failed states» and the current widespread food and power shortages.

Biochar, the modern version of an ancient Amazonian agricultural practice called Terra Preta (black earth), is gaining widespread credibility as a way to address world hunger, climate change, rural poverty, deforestation, and energy shortages... SIMULTANEOUSLY!

These tipping points could be ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica melting permanently, global food shortages and widespread crop failures with more extreme weather, rising ocean temperatures and acidity reaching triggering a crash in global coral reef ecosystems, and warming oceans push the release of methane from the sea floor, which could lead to runaway climate change, etc..

A 2013 follow up report, which focused on impacts of climate change on Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia; tells us that if the world warms by 2 °C (3.6 °F)-- warming which may be reached in 20 to 30 years — there will be widespread food shortages, unprecedented heat - waves, and more intense storms.

A «growing number of experts,» it said, were predicting widespread food shortages and other «demographic catastrophes... in the words of [British scientist and writer] C.P. Snow, we shall be watching people starve on television.»

It is driving the rapid depletion of fossil fuel resources with a dramatic increase in associated emissions and consequent climate change; it is accelerating the loss of biodiversity and widespread extinction of species; it is intensifying the growing shortage of fresh water to meet human needs.

India has many problems with electricity supply, including shortage of baseload capacity, shortage of peaking capacity, grid deficiencies, widespread theft of electricity etc etc..

Instead, they paint a stark picture of rising temperatures causing floods and wildfires, food and water shortages, damage to human health, and widespread disruption of services and destruction of roads, railways bridges and buildings.

Consequential to such a scenario are widespread food shortages, extreme poverty, massive destruction of our habitats, and imbalance in our ecosystems.

He claims that movement founder Rob Hopkins (see my interview with Rob Hopkins for more on his philosophy) talks «almost cheerfully about passing peak oil, widespread food shortages and the idea of globalization crashing suddenly» and he quotes Jennifer Gray, founder of the US arm of Transition, as telling the New York Times that she expects a «a big population die - off.»

«During the worst of the storm from January 5 - 6, 2018, actual U.S. electricity market experience demonstrated that without the resilience of coal - and fuel oil / dual - firing plants... the eastern United States would have suffered severe electricity shortages, likely leading to widespread blackouts,» NETL researchers reported.

Widespread skills shortages are having a negative effect on productivity for half of employers.

As teacher shortages once again become widespread in California and across the nation, discussions of how to recruit and retain high - quality teachers are occupying center stage in policy circles.

Labor and subcontractor shortages became even more widespread in July of 2017 than they were in June of 2016, according to single - family builders in a recent NAHB / Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) survey.

Widespread inventory shortages also are found in much of Florida.

Labor and subcontractor shortages have become even more widespread in July of 2017 than they were in June of 2016, according to single - family builders responding to special questions on the NAHB / Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) survey.