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How to use scarcity in a sentence

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Knowing everything the price system communicates about relative scarcity, would Jesus drive a gas-sipping econobox?
They exploded the belief that the recurrence of periods of bad business was caused by a scarcity of money and by a general overproduction.
Rising energy costs, which are a result of a growing scarcity, as well as inflation, are exacerbating the situation.
When there is enormous economic scarcity on the bottom of the social pyramid, pluralism can undo democracy.
In this case, each fisher does not earn the economic rent that would reflect the scarcity value of the fish to society.
A fear of water deprivation or perhaps the memory of the effects of drought-induced scarcity underpinned many of the documented water disputes.
Although there was a scarcity of fuelwood, it hardly served as an initiating factor.
This is often due to the scarcity of skilled builders, craftsmen and gardeners.
A few species were not collected because of their scarcity on the site or lack of flowering or fruiting individuals.
The problem is that water prices do not correlate with relative water scarcity.
Do we really need to create artificial scarcity by inventing awards that only some kids can receive?
What is usually called plentifulness of money and scarcity of money is really plentifulness of capital and scarcity of capital.
For example, a first-order scarcity can be managed by desert communities because they have developed social institutions as coping strategies.
Another problem was the scarcity, not only of miners, but also of skilled labour to make firebricks and build the furnaces.
Despite an acute water scarcity in many parts of India, the Government has yet to legislate effectively to conserve groundwater resources.
They convey useful information about the perceived scarcity of the resource.
The very low magnesium content of Lime Crest ferroaxinite may reflect the relative scarcity of ferromagnesian minerals in the granite.
The belief that resource scarcity can be transcended by industrialism unites many seemingly antagonistic political standpoints.
Palakkad, once famed for its ponds and tanks, has now lost most of them and the effect was a severe scarcity of water.
Having experienced spells of acute water scarcity at periodic intervals, people do lament over the waste of the precious resource in such times.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There is a scarcity of indications of preglacial man in the New World and an abundance of such indications in the Old.
This fever was first recognized in Kutch in May, 1815, after a season of great scarcity of food.
While the element of scarcity is common to landownership and to monopoly, it differs in its operation.
For every 60 sheep there shall be kept one milk cow because of the scarcity of cattle.
After many privations on the voyage, owing to the scarcity of provisions, they were landed in New Ireland in August.
The last records of conditions in the Wilkes-Barre coal regions confirm the fact of labor scarcity.
The scarcity of this bird, and the absence of the red-bellied and the yellow-bellied, were among the surprises of my visit.
Obvious reasons for this failure lie in the scarcity of parkland and of perennial pasture for large cattle.
The scarcity is so great, that the agio of the bank, which is commonly at four or five per cent, fell to one and a half.
Two important characteristics of the coleopterous fauna are, the small size of the species, and the great scarcity of individuals.
The stairs also were pulled down and burned, though there was no scarcity of firing.
The second reason is, That in this colony a scarcity is never to be apprehended.
All that can be done here is to equalize the inconvenience of the scarcity.
The sparsity of population is also well indicated by the great scarcity of food.
It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
There is, therefore, a great scarcity of horses in the Cape Colony.
Even that had to be sparingly used on account of the scarcity of water.
In general, there is a scarcity of Web-based seminars and tutorials for nursing home staff on any topic of possible interest.
There was both a scarcity of cash and a lack of faith in the enterprise.
Hendrx's proven technology is environmentally friendly and promises a solution for the worldwide scarcity of uncontaminated drinking water.
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