Sentence examples for dearth of activity from inspiring English sources

Asked to comment, Rear Adm. Craig Quigley, Mr. Rumsfeld's spokesman, said: "There is a dearth of activity right now.

So, after a long dearth of activity, all sides agree to resume "talks".

The Jets ran 47 plays while the Redskins had 61 and that dearth of activity meant neither the passing nor the running games could get into a productive rhythm.

The authors, at 24, characterize wholesale copying by libraries as "a non-violent form of civil disobedience". There has been no dearth of activity to revise the 1909 Copyright Act.

This dearth of activity, however, may reflect the lack of backing from local councils, which were miffed because the grounds were built under the supervision of now-defunct development corporations that operated outside their control.A trickier problem may come if the football bubble bursts.

Others have noticed this dearth of activity, and there are increasing numbers of initiatives geared specifically toward driving the Spanish start-up scene.

Unhappy about the dearth of activities available to him and his friends, he spent months rallying support for the cause, only to learn in late May that the city was eyeing the former library for use as an animal shelter.

At a recent girls' night out, a friend bemoaned the dearth of activities her mother could manage: "She used to love to read, but that's out -- she can't stay focused.

Levine and others have done earlier studies suggesting a dearth of routine activity may be part of the problem, but the new study is the most exhaustive to date.

In the past few years, there has been a surprising dearth of IPO activity.

Add that fact to a dearth of IPO activity from the sector — something that is telling in and of itself — means the pressure is on Pure Storage.