Sentence examples for sudden shortages from inspiring English sources

There were sudden shortages and bouts of panic buying – sugar, toilet paper.

It calls for expansion of the nation's stockpiles of petroleum reserves to deal with sudden shortages or steep price increases.

When the economy gets out of kilter — through rapidly increased demand or sudden shortages and price rises — the market should provide the solution in the form of new technologies that "push the Malthusian monster back into its box".

Cargo that moves on water is not moved so easily by train or truck; and America could wake up to sudden shortages of steel for car frames and flour for bread.Few people expect such an outcome, since the shipping companies are Goliaths and the pilots' union, founded only a year ago, a puny David.

Despite talk of an economic slump in the United States that could suppress oil demand, traders have been focusing on the same factors that drove up prices in recent years: global demand for energy that keeps defying expectations, tight oil supplies and little spare production capacity to cushion sudden shortages.

The public squabble has limited the work of the temporary Serbian government at a time when sudden shortages of electrical power, price increases on basic foods and even uprisings in Serbian prisons have complicated the post-Milosevic period, leading to unproven accusations of organized destabilization by those loyal to the old government.

There was a sudden shortage, and drivers clogged toll plazas trying to buy it.

Now LeBlanc will fill in for the sudden shortage of safeties.

Then there was a sudden shortage, caused by changes in water temperature and currents and other environmental conditions.

American consumers may suffer a sudden shortage of very attractively priced German cars and Chinese electronics; a recession might even conceivably result.

CAIRO — A sudden shortage of gasoline gripped Egypt over the weekend, raising new concerns about its teetering economy and its political stability.