You try your best to help your patients, but your hands are chained because your resources are quite miserable.
Happily, human nature also provides resources to escape this miserable condition.
The real scandal in Britain today is that people such as Elaine can die such miserable deaths for want of basic resources society is more than capable of providing.
Scarce jobs, resources and necessities not only make us miserable: it makes us competitive, bigoted and phobic.
Dozens of years ago Hong Kong was one of the poorest pieces of real estate on earth, with a miserable per capita income, suffering "overpopulation" and utterly lacking in natural resources (it even has to import water).
Nevertheless, executives, lawyers and analysts say that Washington, depending on the resources it is willing to commit, can at least make life more miserable for the offshore casinos.
(Catastrophes like the Black Death or failed harvests make people — those who survived, that is — better off by reducing the numbers competing for limited resources; improvements like sanitation or new medicines, or even charity, make everyone miserable).
If you don't have it, you're potentially wasting the resources of your country's law enforcement agencies or, even worse, making life miserable for an innocent person and his or her family.
This, it is hoped, will release resources for health and education and generally make life in the third world less miserable.
It is a short-sighted and miserable decision that risks slowing green growth, ensuring many more premature deaths from respiratory illnesses, and increases resource supply risks for European manufacturers.
But he began making too much money for Oakland's limited resources and was hardly revered by A's executives, so off he went to Queens, where he spent two miserable seasons.
