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But it will take time for the implications to become clear, with demand-driven price pressure still preciously scarce and stronger wage gains yet to materialize, it’s hard to see the BOJ rush towards tightening under a new governor. – Stefan Angrick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. – Benjamin Franklin	added by Normando 1 year ago
The flu could kill you, a cold could kill you, COVID could kill you. The organs are scarce, we are not going to distribute them to someone who has a poor chance of living when others who are vaccinated have a better chance post-surgery of surviving. – Arthur Caplan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There is a critical labor shortage which slows down production, making goods scarce, retailers and Food Service then must compete for a limited amount of meat to ensure a steady supply for consumers. This competition has driven up the price for consumers. – Sarah Little	Found on CNN 2 years ago
As we emerge from Covid-19, retail and service companies, restaurants and industry are attempting to return to pre-pandemic unemployment levels, but employees are as scarce today as jobs were a year ago. – Arkansas Georgia	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There was going to be a backlog in the silver bullion supply chain that rendered Silver Eagles more scarce either way. – Everett Millman	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The country can't afford to be locking in to a hugely polluting, expensive and carbon-intensive mega project at a time when — more than ever — we need to act against the climate crisis, protect the resilience of vulnerable, water scarce areas and preserve our limited state funds and resources for projects with positive outcomes and benefits for all. – Michelle Koyama	Found on CNN 3 years ago
While homebuyer appetite remains robust, the scarce inventory has effectively put a limit on how much higher sales can increase, unfortunately, the record low supply combined with strong demand means home prices are rapidly escalating and eroding the benefits of the low mortgage rate environment. – Sam Khater	Found on CNN 3 years ago
No one has a sense of where there's excess and where there's deficiencies, this is a national limited, scarce resource. There needs to be some process to this. – Michael Ison	Found on CNN 3 years ago
When growth is scarce, people pay more for growth, this is an environment where there has been little growth for years -- more or less since the 2008 financial crisis. – Don Townswick	Found on CNN 3 years ago
There are many other unique and strange early dolphins and baleen whales from Oligocene aged rocks in Charleston, South Carolina, because the Oligocene epoch is the time when filter feeding and echolocation first evolved, and since marine mammal localities of that time are scarce worldwide, the fossils from Charleston offer the most complete window into the early evolution of these groups. – Robert Boessenecker	Found on CNN 3 years ago
In many countries, period products have become scarce and vulnerable girls and young women, in particular, are going without. – Susanne Legena	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Periods don't stop during a pandemic, but managing them safely and with dignity has become a whole lot harder, in many countries, period products have become scarce and vulnerable girls and young women, in particular, are going without. – Susanne Legena	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It is a scarce resource, antibodies don't last forever and we have to capture people within that time window. This is dependant on the progression of COVID-19 within different geographies. – Julie Kim	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
You can use these maps to better target scarce resources, and specifically target resources for the safety net hospitals that these poor people of color usually have to go to. – John Balmes	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Pro-choice advocates contend that abortion is an essential and time-sensitive medical service.While people everywhere are trying to survive the COVID-19 pandemic, politicians like Gov. Abbott continue this perverse obsession with banning abortion, those who are caring for their families, forced to work essential jobs, and doing what they can to stay healthy need access to health care right now. Instead, these politicians are forcing patients to travel hundreds of miles putting themselves and their families at risk. Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser praised the stayorder. We are pleased that the Court recognized the urgency and necessity of Governor Abbotts order. All elective surgeries and procedures, including abortions, must cease during this national crisis, Dannenfelser said in a statement provided to Fox News. At a time when millions of Americans are making heroic sacrifices to protect the vulnerable, and legitimate health care workers risk their own lives to care for COVID-19 patients with crucial protective equipment in short supply, the abortion industry led by Planned Parenthood demands special treatment anddiverts scarce resources. – Abby Johnson	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Just in this month we have had a lot of days with little cloud cover, high temperatures and scarce rainfall, which favors continued low temperatures. – Yolanda Gonzalez	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Information is scarce, we are just trying to keep safe and looking after each other. – Batemans Bay resident Frank Scognamiglio	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
[A]s all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever ... – Benjamin Franklin	added by Normando 5 years ago
People still think being fat is a good thing. Pacific Island's particularly true for older generation. They often grew up in poverty when food was scarce, grandparents often live with the family and given that parents often both work, they play a big role in deciding what children eat. – Bai Li	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The gold price is good, but capital flows, while probably better than last year, are still very scarce, mergers and weak management teams have destroyed capital. Investors have become a bit more cautious in their approach. – Robert Cohen	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Water became scarce and boats stopped coming to the area and after that our animals started to lose weight and then die. We gave them medicine, but in vain, they return home to lay on straw and die. We often slaughter them and we have to burn animals we find dead in the water .... We have lost a large number of our animals. – Ahmed Sabah	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think the memories from( last year's) hurricanes are so fresh that we have a clear idea of the effects and which items can be scarce or hard to find, most people I know are aware that this storm doesn't seem to be a second Hurricane Maria, but is simply a wake-up call that the hurricane season is here and we are still extremely vulnerable. – Gabriel Rivera-Cruz	Found on CNN 5 years ago
You need to go through very specialized training in order to read these images, but we know that experts are a very scarce resource. – Alibaba Cloud	Found on Reuters 5 years ago

But it will take time for the implications to become clear, with demand-driven price pressure still preciously scarce and stronger wage gains yet to materialize, it’s hard to see the BOJ rush towards tightening under a new governor.

– Stefan Angrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

– Benjamin Franklin

added by Normando
1 year ago

The flu could kill you, a cold could kill you, COVID could kill you. The organs are scarce, we are not going to distribute them to someone who has a poor chance of living when others who are vaccinated have a better chance post-surgery of surviving.

– Arthur Caplan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is a critical labor shortage which slows down production, making goods scarce, retailers and Food Service then must compete for a limited amount of meat to ensure a steady supply for consumers. This competition has driven up the price for consumers.

– Sarah Little

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As we emerge from Covid-19, retail and service companies, restaurants and industry are attempting to return to pre-pandemic unemployment levels, but employees are as scarce today as jobs were a year ago.

– Arkansas Georgia

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There was going to be a backlog in the silver bullion supply chain that rendered Silver Eagles more scarce either way.

– Everett Millman

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The country can't afford to be locking in to a hugely polluting, expensive and carbon-intensive mega project at a time when — more than ever — we need to act against the climate crisis, protect the resilience of vulnerable, water scarce areas and preserve our limited state funds and resources for projects with positive outcomes and benefits for all.

– Michelle Koyama

Found on CNN
3 years ago

While homebuyer appetite remains robust, the scarce inventory has effectively put a limit on how much higher sales can increase, unfortunately, the record low supply combined with strong demand means home prices are rapidly escalating and eroding the benefits of the low mortgage rate environment.

– Sam Khater

Found on CNN
3 years ago

No one has a sense of where there's excess and where there's deficiencies, this is a national limited, scarce resource. There needs to be some process to this.

– Michael Ison

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When growth is scarce, people pay more for growth, this is an environment where there has been little growth for years -- more or less since the 2008 financial crisis.

– Don Townswick

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are many other unique and strange early dolphins and baleen whales from Oligocene aged rocks in Charleston, South Carolina, because the Oligocene epoch is the time when filter feeding and echolocation first evolved, and since marine mammal localities of that time are scarce worldwide, the fossils from Charleston offer the most complete window into the early evolution of these groups.

– Robert Boessenecker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In many countries, period products have become scarce and vulnerable girls and young women, in particular, are going without.

– Susanne Legena

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Periods don't stop during a pandemic, but managing them safely and with dignity has become a whole lot harder, in many countries, period products have become scarce and vulnerable girls and young women, in particular, are going without.

– Susanne Legena

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It is a scarce resource, antibodies don't last forever and we have to capture people within that time window. This is dependant on the progression of COVID-19 within different geographies.

– Julie Kim

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

You can use these maps to better target scarce resources, and specifically target resources for the safety net hospitals that these poor people of color usually have to go to.

– John Balmes

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Pro-choice advocates contend that abortion is an essential and time-sensitive medical service.While people everywhere are trying to survive the COVID-19 pandemic, politicians like Gov. Abbott continue this perverse obsession with banning abortion, those who are caring for their families, forced to work essential jobs, and doing what they can to stay healthy need access to health care right now. Instead, these politicians are forcing patients to travel hundreds of miles putting themselves and their families at risk. Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser praised the stayorder. We are pleased that the Court recognized the urgency and necessity of Governor Abbotts order. All elective surgeries and procedures, including abortions, must cease during this national crisis, Dannenfelser said in a statement provided to Fox News. At a time when millions of Americans are making heroic sacrifices to protect the vulnerable, and legitimate health care workers risk their own lives to care for COVID-19 patients with crucial protective equipment in short supply, the abortion industry led by Planned Parenthood demands special treatment anddiverts scarce resources.

– Abby Johnson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Just in this month we have had a lot of days with little cloud cover, high temperatures and scarce rainfall, which favors continued low temperatures.

– Yolanda Gonzalez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Information is scarce, we are just trying to keep safe and looking after each other.

– Batemans Bay resident Frank Scognamiglio

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

[A]s all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever ...

– Benjamin Franklin

added by Normando
5 years ago

People still think being fat is a good thing. Pacific Island's particularly true for older generation. They often grew up in poverty when food was scarce, grandparents often live with the family and given that parents often both work, they play a big role in deciding what children eat.

– Bai Li

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The gold price is good, but capital flows, while probably better than last year, are still very scarce, mergers and weak management teams have destroyed capital. Investors have become a bit more cautious in their approach.

– Robert Cohen

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Water became scarce and boats stopped coming to the area and after that our animals started to lose weight and then die. We gave them medicine, but in vain, they return home to lay on straw and die. We often slaughter them and we have to burn animals we find dead in the water .... We have lost a large number of our animals.

– Ahmed Sabah

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I think the memories from( last year's) hurricanes are so fresh that we have a clear idea of the effects and which items can be scarce or hard to find, most people I know are aware that this storm doesn't seem to be a second Hurricane Maria, but is simply a wake-up call that the hurricane season is here and we are still extremely vulnerable.

– Gabriel Rivera-Cruz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You need to go through very specialized training in order to read these images, but we know that experts are a very scarce resource.

– Alibaba Cloud

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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