Sentence examples for Rare supply from inspiring English sources

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Besides, designing tests of oral ability demands creativity, imagination, time, and highly motivated practitioners, all of which seemed to be in rare supply.

In a busy practice, time is a commodity in rare supply, and keeping abreast of the relevant medical literature is a daunting task.

All the money had to be spent in California, unless there was some rare supply item that could only be gotten somewhere else, and that would have to be justified.

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The Oeko-Institut (Institute for Applied Ecology) fears the "global pressure for a steady rare earth supply might lead to further new mines outside of China with unacceptable environmental standards".

Dudley Kingsnorth, a consultant and retired top industry executive whose rare earth supply and demand models are widely used, last month reduced his forecast of demand in 2015 to 170,000 tons, from 190,000 to 195,000 tons.

The narrowest bottleneck in the global rare earth supply chain lies in taking fairly pure rare earths from the mining companies and processing them into high-tech materials of extremely high purity for electronics manufacturers, defense contractors, oil refiners and other companies.

China feels entitled to call the shots because of a brutally simple environmental reckoning: It currently controls most of the globe's rare earths supply not just because of geologic good fortune, although there is some of that, but because the country has been willing to do dirty, toxic and often radioactive work that the rest of the world has long shunned.

"It is precisely this type of vulnerability in the overall rare earths supply chain [for geopolitical reasons and others] that makes it important for Japan and other countries to diversify their supply chains for rare earths," adds Hatch.

At the moment rare-earth supply is dominated by China.