Wisdom is perhaps the scarcest resource in our world today.
With austerity entrenched and popular movements scarce, perhaps our problem was out of time.
According to Smith, a single worker "could scarce, perhaps with his utmost industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make 20".
In the drab rural area where the film unfolds, food and water are hard to find, but human kindness is perhaps the most scarce thing of all.
The best Conan stories end not in triumph but in an ambiguous, almost melancholy recognition that righteousness is scarce, perhaps even irrelevant.
On the other hand, when supply is scarce, perhaps because the wind has dropped unexpectedly, the energy companies will want to charge more for their power.
However, its multiple siderophore uptake systems suggest that it is nonetheless capable of living in environments where iron is scarce (perhaps at higher pH values) and in which other organisms capable of producing siderophores are present.
Scarcer – perhaps fortunately so – are the larger, more menacing marsh crocodiles; they can easily overturn a boat with a lash of a tail.
These were songs of Irish poets but not, in the main, of Irish composers, who have always been scarce -- perhaps made redundant by the musicality of Irish speech.
In the paper, Jerome Siegel, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, argues that sleep evolved to optimize animals' use of time, keeping them safe and hidden when the hunting, fishing or scavenging was scarce and perhaps risky.
