The question is, does David Cameron want to go down in history as the prime minister who rationed his compassion to a few hundred people when there was the opportunity to offer safety to so many more?" The government's position is that it has focused resources on the humanitarian crisis in the region, rather than on resettlement.
Drinking water in some camps is being rationed to dangerously low levels – only 500ml per day.
This means that funds released to states have been rationed to the point that state governments have been unable to pay wages and have large and growing arrears.
People's worries about immigration are real and legitimate; new arrivals inevitably create challenges for a society that faces rationed public services.
When Queen Elizabeth, 89 in April, assumed the throne in 1952, most members of the current cabinet hadn't even been born, some foodstuffs were still rationed and the Guardian still didn't have a website.
"Care is in effect being rationed.
Above all, isolation had allowed the Chinese, much resented, to gain economic dominance.Mr Thein Sein's bravest act was to face up to the fact that Mr Than Shwe's notions of a "disciplined democracy" and strictly rationed freedoms would lead nowhere.
He read out letters and tweets from constituents who have insurance, but fear losing their coverage or finding it rationed, or paying more to subsidise the poor.
In the tallest buildings, electricity and water are rationed.
Since food was rationed, he did not eat much except what he could grow.Apart from all that, his life was not exemplary.
So popular was it that loans had to be rationed to an hour.The 150th edition contains a list of the ten most significant cricketing events to have happened since the first one was first published in 1864.
