A look at the winter movie slate makes the scarcity of great roles for women clear.
Perhaps, once in awhile, scarcity will breed rational thinking, too.
By virtue of its scarcity, it is going to become somewhat exclusive, at least for the next few years.
The novel is set at a time of scarcity, and all of the characters fret about nourishment.
One of the most painful and confusing paradoxes of life today concerns our sensation of scarcity amid plenty.
The great trouble is the scarcity of water and the intense heat.
Therefore, the fear of a famine—or of scarcity—was ever present to the people.
At present, however, the scarcity and cost and danger of radium will keep it in the hands of the experimenter.
They should also consider what had been said about the scarcity of food and horses and the other difficulties.
They were allowed two rations (only in times of scarcity they had to take the privates' fare).
c.1300, from Old North French escarcete (Old French escharsete), from eschars (see scarce).
The basic problem on which classical economic theory is built: simply, that human wants will always exceed the resources available to fulfill those wants. This tenet was challenged by the rise of what John Kenneth Galbraith described as the affluent society.
