Sentences with phrase «with widespread shortages»

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

Chicory came into widespread use during a major coffee shortage in France; locals mixed the root with the coffee they did have to stretch their supplies farther.

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.

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..

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..

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.»