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"struggle for resources" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the competition or fight for limited resources, such as food, water, or money. Example: "The countries in the region are engaged in a constant struggle for resources, as they all rely on the same river for irrigation and drinking water." In this sentence, "struggle for resources" is used to describe the ongoing competition between countries for access to the limited resource of the river.
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A struggle for resources will emerge between generations.
It was Dr. Haig who argued in the 1990s that pregnancy was in part a biological struggle for resources between the mother and unborn child.
Under Geri D. Palast, who became the campaign's executive director in 2006, the group kept reminding donors that the struggle for resources was not over, and conducted research to show where inequities remain.
This has involved the internalisation of the logic of competition, so that universities, departments and individual academics are all pushed to treat each other as rivals in the struggle for resources.
The story concerns their struggle for resources and survival, which pits them against various desperadoes and also leads Hig to an unlikely romance with an epidemiologist, which leavens the book's mournful tone.
Instead of encouraging inter-ethnic understanding and solidarity, leaders have set communities against each other in a struggle for resources and power, making it difficult for citizens to join together for the national interest.
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First, nationalism and organized religion can be and are used to divide the world into "us" and "them" in struggles for resources rather than to guide human actions for the common good.
For a tiny, nonprofit outlet like Catalyst, which is struggling for resources to merely stay afloat, the story is undoubtedly a huge victory -- but perhaps not one that will help financially.
The Earth-Life SciEONe Institute and EON can, and should, serve as "safe harbors" for scientists and projects in OoL that have traditionally remained on the periphery of many disciplines or have struggled for resources to make progress.
In an informal conversation with this author, a leading British medical oncologist specializing in lung cancer therapy reported similar attitudes: medical researchers who wanted to undertake research on lung cancer, he suggested, always struggled for resources because finding cures and treatments for other cancers is seen as more important, for lung cancer is perceived as a self-inflicted disease.
This confrontation, he said, was "one of the forms of competitive struggle … just as the struggle for mineral resources".
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