Sentence examples for shortages of basic necessities from inspiring English sources

Since the early 1990's, poverty has increased, inequality has grown worse and shortages of basic necessities have spread.

The shortage of basic necessities that has attended Cuban communism has made them experts at la cola (the queue or line), with a system that can at once impress, confuse and piss off the unschooled foreigner.

In a ruling on Thursday calling for an investigation of prison-based mental health facilities, a federal judge cited the "denial of basic necessities, including clean underwear," along with doctor shortages and treatment delays.

In the evening, the police hand out baskets of basic necessities in the Alvorada neighbourhood.

The lack of basic necessities for the sport also bodes poorly.

Privately, some residents showed flashes of resentment toward the military for monopolizing the distribution of basic necessities.

For the vast majority of workers, the costs of basic necessities are rising faster than incomes.

The other would emphasize the brutal blockade of Gaza that has created shortages of the basic necessities of survival for the residents of Gaza, the refusal of the current Israeli government to work seriously towards a two-state solution, and the horrifyingly high level of civilian deaths, especially children, with each Israeli reprisal.

Taiba has been home to most of these people for the last three years, years marked by shortages of the basic necessities for life.

But Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa disagreed with this strategy last month when he told Parliament that price controls were leading to "shortages of critical basic necessities on the formal market" because they failed to address the rising costs of production.

With the United States fighting protracted wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan, its military faces a shortage of a basic necessity: ammunition.