Sentence examples for desperate scarcity from inspiring English sources
I didn't expect there to be such a desperate scarcity of girls, which was evident as soon as I arrived at the camp and walked around.
Boatloads of desperate Senegalese men still arriving illegally in Europe testify to the scarcity of decent jobs.And there are worries about democracy.
Cannibalism was rife, as an estimated 45 million people died the most desperate deaths imaginable in what Chairman Mao dismissed as "a period of scarcity".
The global metal-theft epidemic conjures a Mad Max world of desperate people mining civilization's infrastructure — a postcard from a future era of commodity scarcity.
He is shocked by the lack of urgently needed medical help, the scarcity of food and the sight of crumbling old buildings where up to ten desperate families share a single room, and ten such rooms have the use of only one leaky toilet.Youssef is one of thousands of Syrian refugees in Bulgaria, the poorest European Union country.
Prices reflect that scarcity.
Scarcity forces prices up.
Scarcity, then, is crucial.
The explanation is scarcity.
