| Rather than arguing the toss, we'd be better off planting some extra vegetables in case we're lumbered with food rationing. |
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| The continuation of war-time rationing squeezed living standards, while exports were increased. |
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| Amid the rationing and the rubble of bombed buildings, there was hope for the future and television was part of it. |
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| I am looking at their jobs as civilians and in the military and focusing on how they coped with rationing and utility clothing. |
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| Meanwhile, all the other people are ensconced in their homes, rationing out the milk and bread. |
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| Food rationing, shortages, bombed cities, damaged railways, such things were accepted as the inevitable concomitants of war. |
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| They reflect successive governments' policy preference for rationing demand while disincentivising the private sector. |
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| It lists options for rationing, such as increasing the price of petrol or putting a limit on the maximum amount motorists can buy. |
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| Food rationing has been introduced and the opening hours of food shops limited. |
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| Visitors will be able to rediscover the long-forgotten world of blackouts, air-raids, rationing and the Home Guard. |
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| Bread rationing was reintroduced in January 1947 as was soap rationing and, critically, beer and porter supplies were drastically reduced. |
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| But the end of rationing and other wartime restrictions and a shortage in the labour market led to a wind of change in gender politics. |
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| If I remember, rationing was still on, so we all pooled our coupons and sorted the food. |
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| Finally, Ian steps away, off to buy his daily rationing of overpriced, indigestible slop. |
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| There has been no call for rationing, victory gardens, or buying war bonds. |
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| It also introduced a rationing program involving products such as tires, gasoline, fuel oil and sugar. |
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| Opposition politicians said it would involve deeply unfair rationing according to lifestyle. |
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| With the end of bread rationing new bakeries were established and consumers were offered a wide range of loaves and were bidden to be choosy. |
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| For the food trade, this signalled a continuation of a restrictive system of permits, selected food rationing and coupon cutting. |
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| Despite the protestations of the market illiterati of the Left, government rationing of health care services is right around the corner. |
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| They tell their own story of desertions, food rationing, shortage of ammunition and other difficulties. |
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| Petrol stations in some cities are rationing diesel, with prices leaping on the black market, according to official reports. |
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| Currently, the US is rationing the supply of flu vaccine to the most at risk. |
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| With rationing for the war effort, they were both soon withdrawn from the market. |
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| As newlyweds in the 1940s, the couple had rented a small allotment and grown potatoes, cabbages and salad crops, to help enrich their restricted diet amid post-war rationing. |
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| Ministers fear fuel supplies are on the verge of widespread disruption and have drawn up plans to deploy troops to guard refineries and introduce petrol rationing. |
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| They announced the intention of dismantling the state rationing system? |
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| The interlayer rationing pot is mainly used to mix, concentrate or decoct liquid materials in pharmaceutical, food and chemical industries. |
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| It's like they're panic-buying the stuff in the erroneous belief there's going to be music rationing or something. |
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| During that period, the rationing network, based on the North's collective farm system, crumbled. |
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| Many young women in Britain had already faced nightly bombing raids, the deaths of family members or friends, blackouts and rationing. |
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| Because such discussions are often conflated with rationing, any attempt to do this is a political nonstarter. |
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| You are rationing out information to us in tidbits, just enough to keep our appetites whetted. |
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| This new, profligate – almost punk — kind of business model trashed the tenets of an older generation brought up with rationing and restriction. |
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| His remarks caused a storm of outrage in a country still suffering rationing. |
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| Cut-offs due to rationing are frequent, resulting from ageing of the plant. |
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| The Committee was also informed that the lack of fuel has made operations in Eritrea difficult and that severe rationing has been introduced. |
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| However, at these kinds of prices, you can be assured that demand rationing is already occurring. |
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| Some of the populations of the plain suffer drinking water rationing during the summer. |
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| Annual rainfall is sparse, and water rationing is frequent, especially in poorer areas. |
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| In broad terms, the growing dominance of market mechanisms rather than credit rationing as a means for allocating credit has occurred already. |
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| A first solution has traditionally consisted of rationing transport demand by regulatory policies. |
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| Then we can better assess the degree of required rationing and extent to which demand needs to be deflected to lower grade. |
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| Not everyone will have full access to health care and the rationing must be ethically planned. |
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| Among other things it is important to care for your body, for instance by rationing its energy and by providing it with energy through food. |
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| Credit regulation is mainly achieved through quantitative control and rationing. |
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| This is bearish for the market as it indicates demand rationing at these higher prices is occurring. |
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| Surprised by the extreme rigour of the winter, the Tajik authorities resorted to drastic rationing of water, gas and electricity. |
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| Fairfax House had survived a chequered 20th century history which had seen it used as a cinema, ballroom, soldiers' billet, coal rationing office and bicycle shed. |
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| It was inconsistent to hold on to a document that championed neutral rights while at the same time producing new measures, such as forcible rationing, that clearly impinged on them. |
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| Because it has, in the past, been a tool of racism and colonialism, and in the present, is a means of rationing health care. |
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| The summer itself was the driest since 1995, the year of water rationing. |
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| The solution, according to my vet, is carefully rationing her food. |
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| And the Republican attacks on the health-care bill are replete with paranoia about rationing and death panels. |
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| Meanwhile, horror stories about the rationing of cancer care by the American insurance industry abound. |
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| Another charge about keeping outcomes data is that it will lead to rationing. |
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| Because oversubscribed issues are subject to quantity rationing, uninformed investors may find that they are eventually allocated more overpriced issues. |
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| Historically produced in Scotland, it was introduced across Britain during World War II as a consequence of rationing. |
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| Even with the gathering of this year's especially good supplies of wild plant foods capable of meeting most of their food needs, these households will still be forced to resort to food rationing strategies. |
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| This welcome development, however, also puts pressure on services and budgets, since people are reluctant to accept any rationing of services or cuts in their levels. |
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| I experienced air raids, gas masks, black-outs, rationing and the kind of things mentioned in the book. |
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| In THOMAS for many years we have researched and developed new floodgate systems and mechanised elements for dams and canals, with the aim of improving and rationing the use of water. |
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| In fact, Velveeta got its start as a thrifty cheese alternative used during rationing. |
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| As with all rationing, queuing motivates competition as people act to improve their prospects of acquiring the amount of the good they desire. |
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| Lord Baker, when home secretary, thought of rationing jail-crazy magistrates to a fixed number of cells each week, after filling which they would not be able to give custodial sentences. |
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| Finally, 14 years of food rationing lasting until 1954 ruined the British taste so that bland and stodgy food could become legendary throughout the world. |
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| Yorkers such as Bresnan finally produced are tending to become an endangered species: perhaps, like petrol, they are subject to rationing in Antigua. |
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| And patients will kick up a fuss at anything that smacks of rationing. |
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| Possibilities include draconian rationing, charging patients, reducing priorities, or limiting the workforce. |
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| There are fears similar measures will be introduced elsewhere and rationing will become the NHS norm. |
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| The groups from the Specialised Healthcare Alliance said this rationing is taking place with inadequate public oversight. |
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| There is considerable argument about whether any of the health bills currently before congress will introduce rationing. |
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| During World War II fish and chips remained one of the few foods in the United Kingdom not subject to rationing. |
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| Nearly 15 million people are living under some form of water rationing, barred from freely sprinkling their lawns or refilling their swimming pools. |
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| Wage and price controls have been successful in wartime environments in combination with rationing. |
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| Artificially low prices often cause rationing and shortages and discourage future investment, resulting in yet further shortages. |
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| Welfare conditions, especially regarding food, improved during the war as the government imposed rationing and subsidized food prices. |
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| This was due to the unavailability of red meat related to wartime rationing. |
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| Economic recovery and the end of petrol rationing led to rapid growth in car ownership and use. |
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| Food rationing, which has been the norm in Cuba for the last four decades, restricts the common availability of these dishes. |
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| Also included are his memories of evacuation, gas masks, air raid shelters, rationing and, finally, the victory celebrations. |
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| It charts the violent death, in 1946 rural Kent, of a middle-aged reclusive woman, at a time when Britain's celebratory mood is muted by privation and rationing. |
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| This contraction resulted from a reduction in imports in the wake of a rationing of credit to the cotton sector and a substantial real exchange rate depreciation. |
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| It was agreed that a plan would be developed and presented to the Board and would include the possibility of rationing products, a communication plan and looking at alternative sources for acquiring products. |
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| The government has been harvesting money out of the employment insurance system for a decade and incrementally rationing little improvements back up to where it once was. |
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| That is, rationing, the deliberate fabrication of scarcity. |
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| Vital day-to-day decisions, such as feed rationing, breeding and health care can be made with the assistance of the data displayed on the milking unit. |
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| According to the new rationing system, each citizen receives EGP 15 of rations or subsidies on basic commodities on his ration card. |
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| Many nurses believe care rationing is happening regularly, compromising patient care and contributing to their stress. |
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| This incites some concern on my part that demand rationing through high prices will have a way of occurring more than we think as a rush of new-crop Canadian supplies soon hits the street. |
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| He returned to Britain in 1946, to find a country still beset by wartime rationing and shortages. |
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| And in fact, if all those cornucopian prospects come to fruition, rationing of fossil fuels and probably other resources will become even more essential. |
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| As rationing was still in place ration coupons had to be found for all the visitors and the Minister of Food was eventually persuaded to supply these. |
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| Lights would not be allowed after dark for almost six years, and the blackout became by far the most unpopular aspect of the war for civilians, more than rationing. |
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| First food prices were controlled, then rationing was introduced. |
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| Talking of breadbaskets, even Billy Bunter pinched an admiral's uniform so he could confiscate a canteen full of cakes and beat rationing and Hungry Horace wasn't far behind. |
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| Patients in England will suffer cuts in staff numbers, increased waiting time and rationing if the NHS does not get increased funding according to health bosses. |
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| One must remember that not only was loan no skinnymalink but this was the time immediately after the war when rationing still meant a fair amount of hunger. |
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| Care rationing data is collected at the end of each shift and is based on the practitioner's assessment of whether any aspect of care was rationed during their shift. |
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| Marshall Plan aid allowed the nations of Western Europe to relax austerity measures and rationing, reducing discontent and bringing political stability. |
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