Sentence examples for city rations from inspiring English sources

The city rations water, with individual residents averaging 36 hours of water access weekly.

And Michigan has even devised a plan that would, by exempting certain white, rural counties with high unemployment rates, impose work requirements for Medicaid mainly on black people in cities. Rationing government assistance – whether or not it involves blatant racism – rests on the idea that only "deserving" should receive aid.

Disease began to spread within the city as rations became scarcer.

And, as late as 1993, city authorities rationed food.

In the cities bread rations were reduced to one or two ounces a day.

With its reservoirs half-empty and tributaries down to a trickle, the city is rationing water.

Glass had witnessed enormous change in the wealth of the city, from "rationed to competitive consumption".

The authorities have announced price increases that will triple the official cost of most cigarette brands starting next month, but Moscow is believed to be the first city to ration tobacco.

In Oran (the second biggest Algerian city) the rationing of water is the rule in the major part of the city (Senouci 1995; Senouci 1997a, b).

The record drought in California is not only forcing cities to ration water and farmers to sell off cattle.

In fact, if the money from the contraband was funneled into the community, the grants that cities usually ration to eager community programs can be funneled into the police departments.