Sentence examples for increasing shortages from inspiring English sources

Increasing shortages of bricklayers and bricks threaten to undermine ambitious housebuilding plans laid out by politicians ahead of the election, a leading construction industry group has warned.

Most Venezuelans are not about to throw all this away because they have had a year and a half of high inflation and increasing shortages.

They claim that water consumption inexorably grows with income and population, and that this will lead to increasing shortages and even to wars.

Increasing shortages of commodities, from oil to wheat, will provoke new paroxysms of speculation by traders and hedge-funds whose strategic sense does not go beyond next Wednesday.

But I came away skeptical of the narrative, reported daily in the media, that increasing shortages of basic foods and consumer goods are a serious motivation for the protests.

Point rationing assigns a point value to each commodity and allocates a certain number of points to each consumer; this system is employed during periods of critical and increasing shortages when individuals begin substituting unrationed for rationed items, thereby spreading shortages.

Worse, there is an increasing shortage of any cheap housing at all.

He has mothballed his own business because there are no new construction projects, given the increasing shortage of building supplies.

Animal epidemics in succeeding years added to the problems, as did an increasing shortage of currency in the 1330s.

In their exchanges, we see Wodehouse writing his way through Berlin's air-raids, fretting about his reputation, and perturbed by the increasing shortage of food.

Hunt has claimed that it will tackle an increasing shortage of hospital beds by avoiding 163,000 unnecessary admissions for emergency treatment every year.