Sentence examples for when scarce from inspiring English sources

Similarly, division heads may attempt to overclaim credit when scarce resources are being negotiated within an organization.

Hostilities routinely flare in the region late in the summer, when scarce water supplies pit neighbors against one another, said Sabine Freizer, the director of International Crisis Group's Europe program.

But over all, Mr. Bird said he believed that more dams in China could even out the Mekong's seasonal variations by storing water when it was plentiful and releasing it when scarce.

The theologians of the University of Salamanca (some 100 miles west-northwest of Madrid) in the 1550s were the first to see this connection and to formulate the earliest version of a quantity theory of money (in which money is worth more when scarce than when abundant).

Jessica Caldwell, senior analyst with the Web site Edmunds.com, said sales would be increased for a few more months by shoppers who had put off trying to buy a new car or truck last year, when scarce supplies caused prices of some popular models to rise.

And finally, when scarce, water can become an economic resource.

The council now takes volunteering into account when allocating scarce public housing.

Healthcare and emergency workers were given the highest priority when assigning scarce resources; politicians were assigned the lowest priority.

As mentioned above, this type of evidence is of paramount importance for decision making when allocating scarce healthcare resources.

But when resources are scarce, and getting scarcer, it's a hard urge to fight.

When rain is scarce, as it is now, the fields lie parched and work is scarce.