Sentence examples for scarce goods from inspiring English sources

Queues for scarce goods are common.

Some scarce goods are now sold by auction, but only after years of scams.

In the capitalist world, scarce goods and services are allocated with prices.

Abundant dollars pursue scarce goods and services, forcing prices and wages up.

He uses an auction of a painting by Van Gogh to illustrate how liberal economies allocate value to scarce goods.

Since the scarce goods weren't rationed out by ability to pay, they were doled out in proportion to clout, influence, connections, ruthless calculations of mutual advantage.

"Attention is a very scarce good," Ms. Adamovicz said.

At stake is a scarce good, widely (if wrongly) regarded as determining future happiness and earnings.

I wish I could teach them that money is a scarce good, worth fighting for and protecting.

The (scarce) good news: Buying low on Acosta during a lost season is a smart move and Castillo can handle a share of creative duties.

It is a business that depends heavily on relatively scarce good locations for new plants -- places close to natural-gas pipelines, water for cooling and transmission lines, all in regions where electricity supplies are already tight and residents will not fight construction.