Sentence examples for cause a shortage from inspiring English sources

Humulin could be created in vats instead of harvested from cows or pigs, and it relieved doctors' worries that the looming diabetes epidemic would cause a shortage.

The organisers of the Glastonbury festival have already decided to drop their annual event next June because of the Olympics and all the associated events surrounding it, which will cause a shortage of police officers and temporary toilets.

A price ceiling imposed on a monopolist need not cause a shortage, if it is set high enough; indeed, price controls on a monopolist can actually lead to higher output.

The government's advisers on medicine knew that patients were at risk of contracting Aids from imported blood products as early as 1983, but ruled against a ban because of fears it would cause a shortage of supply.

For example, a bill would require companies to notify the FDA in advance about anything that might cause a shortage and give the agency new powers to try to assuage them.

BMW announced it was planning to shut its Oxfordshire plant for a month to minimise the impact of a no-deal Brexit that it fears would cause a shortage of parts.

Eventually this caused a shortage and rising prices.

The online drugstores dismiss the suggestion that they have caused a shortage of druggists.

He blamed feminism for somehow causing a shortage of jobs for working-class men.

Others have raised prices significantly, which, in some cases, has caused a shortage of e-books.

But the law heavily favours tenants over landlords, which caused a shortage of rented property.