"Boyhood" or "Growing Up", directed by Richard LinklaterFilms often take longer to make than initially expected: troublesome starlets, wild weather or suddenly sparse funding can cause delays.
With sparse funding available for postgraduate study in Britain, Ms Eastop had to resort to online crowdfunding to raise the £26,500 ($41,500) cost of one year's extra study.
Legal aid lawyers in China have sparse funding and antiquated equipment.
The failings cannot be ascribed to sparse funding, as the hospital's supporters often have done.
Financing parks across the country remains difficult, as sparse funding is often allocated to more immediate causes such as education.
The center also operates a kindergarten to supplement the sparse government funds, which only cover salaries not operational costs - leaving the center dependent on private donations and funds raised from children's art exhibits.
The recent move by the Fish and Wildlife Service means that the sparse federal funds devoted to protecting wild animals will be wasted on efforts that cannot help save jaguars.
Critics including unlikely allies such as the Ramblers Associationn and the TaxPayers' Alliance have called the bridge an absurd vanity project on a stretch of the Thames already well stocked with bridges, which will block historic views along the river and prove a long-term drain on sparse public funds that they say could be better spent on more useful transport schemes.
Amended Amateur Athletic Foundation articles of incorporation permitted a contribution of up to $2 million for an arts festival, and Kindel says one reason for going to the foundation for money was the hope of raising new monies rather than competing with existing arts organizations for already sparse arts funds.
But he worries that smaller districts may receive little guidance from their state and, given sparse funds, decide not to make STEM a priority.
According to Sarang, much of the sparse government funding that has been allotted for HIV relief has been spent on counterproductive campaigns, such as a one $1 million initiative last year, which promoted the message that condoms don't protect against HIV. .
