Sentence examples for a shortage of basic from inspiring English sources

Compounding the problem of graft is a shortage of basic operational competence.

He concluded that the main reason for famines is not a shortage of basic food.

A shortage of basic goods and skyrocketing food prices are fuelling discontent in Egypt, where a currency crisis has hit imports.

A government-run ice cream factory opened with great fanfare, only to shut down a day later because of a shortage of basic ingredients.

The strike and blockade have created the perfect conditions for a rampant black market – a shortage of basic goods and a surplus of young men who have been put out of work by the strike.

The question that Sudan has been asking itself is, when faced with massive political upheaval, poverty and a shortage of basic of services, can English really make a difference?

Health workers in Kenama, in Sierra Leone's badly-affected eastern region, said they were using plastic bags amid a shortage of basics such as rubber gloves.

With the United States fighting protracted wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan, its military faces a shortage of a basic necessity: ammunition.

In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro has defied many of his critics by remaining in power for a second year since he succeeded Hugo Chávez, despite recession, high inflation and a shortage of many basic goods.

There was a shortage of most basic goods in Cuba, especially medical supplies; plasters, bandages and painkillers could often only be found on the black market and they had to be paid for in pesos convertibles rather than pesos Cubanos.

If there were a shortage of workers, basic economic theory says that the value of workers would increase.