Sentence examples for scarce interest from inspiring English sources

Haiti's was perhaps the most radical of 18th-century revolutions, yet Britain has shown scarce interest in its anniversary.

When foreign capital is scarce, interest rates will rise and the dollar will fall to attract more foreign investment.

As the national electricity consumption peaked over the years, and the reserves of fossil fuels are becoming scarce, interest in thorium fuel-based nuclear energy generation as an alternative energy source for Malaysia is renewed.

In Brazil, for example, Anita Kon, a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University in Sao Paulo, notes that "credit is increasingly scarce, interest rates continue to be very high and inflation will accelerate, given global conditions in which the supply of certain food products and other commodities doesn't meet demand.

Capital was then scarce and interest rates high, as they still are, because local savings had been destroyed by inflation.

In a country where government deficits make capital scarce and interest rates high, the best firms rely on intellectual assets rather than on tangible ones.

What we're working with now is a legislative branch that has scarce public interest filters and so acts like an information cartel -- knowledge is not necessarily a public obligation.

As water grows scarce, special interests hurry to get it while they can.

If the system gets jammed, credit will become scarce and market interest rates will rise and the economy may become jammed too.

Had government borrowing been gobbling up scarce credit, pushing interest rates for private firms upwards, then lower deficits could reduce rates and trigger an investment boom.

Statistics are scarce, however, on interest by the younger generation in baseball, though one television study found that the number of youths between 12 and 17 watching last fall's World Series was up by 50percentt.