Sentence examples for procure scarce from inspiring English sources
In early 1992 Boris Yeltsin issued a decree legalizing the sale of consumer goods by individuals, and some individuals cut the decree out of the newspaper, pinned it to their clothes to ward off police, and went out to procure scarce goods for resale.
McCormick has also made such smart moves as shoring up its supply of increasingly scarce vanilla, procuring $55 million in beans, good for most of 2004.
In comparison with the roan antelope, the hartebeest is better at procuring and chewing the scarce regrowth of perennial grasses at times when forage is least available.
Inputs like seeds and fertilizer are hard to procure, equipment and infrastructure have been damaged, labour is scarcer, animal feed is lacking and local veterinary services have collapsed or are under enormous strain.
Lack of guidelines to ensure fair allocation of scarce resources during a pandemic, failure to justify proposals for procuring and stockpiling pharmaceuticals and other medical supplies, and failure to justify delineated preparedness actions are deficiencies.
This reflects one of the main difficulties with in vivo cyanotoxin research: cyanotoxins in general are difficult or expensive to procure, so there has been a bias towards the most efficient use of a scarce resource [ 49].
He said that orphanages in the Philippines are scarce and poorly staffed; that government agencies frequently demand documents that are impossible to procure; and that even with the necessary paperwork, simple procedures can drag on for months. .
Information was hard to procure.
A1 SIDE EFFECTS -- As the government negotiates to procure enough smallpox vaccine to inoculate every American, officials say a separate effort is under way to obtain large quantities of the scarce medicine to treat people with adverse reactions to the vaccine.
