When you remind people that they're deprived, they become drawn to whatever happens to be scarce nearby, as though possessing a scarce object corrects the imbalance.
Anything they need, except scarce magical objects, can be obtained by ordering a house elf to do it, or casting a spell, or, in a pinch, making objects like dinner, or a house, assemble themselves.
Long ago, currency consisted of fairly scarce, valuable objects, like sea shells.
If you want somebody to want what you have, you have to make that object scarce, even if that object is yourself.
If you want somebody to want what you have (or are or do or just want you), you have to make that object scarce, even if that object is yourself.
Other experimental work comparing retrospective gating with prospective triggering for metal objects is scarce.
Opponents, particularly local authorities none too keen on reverting to the weekly bin collection, only object that scarce public funds would be better spent on other behaviour-controlling initiatives such as the cuts-threatened SureStart centres.
"Great objects are so scarce, there's always a lot that gets recycled," said Richard Feigen, a Manhattan dealer.
Their utensils and instruments were almost all of vegetable or animal origin, since in large sections of the area stones for making axes, arrowheads, and other objects were quite scarce.
Countless material objects could be deemed scarce, but they don't have value because they are not in demand.
As web archives compete for increasingly scarce funds, this tendency to report object-level rather than use-level statistics is only increasing.
