Scarcity of paper caused many Southerners to adopt the practice of cross-writing, i.e., after writing from left to right of the page in the usual manner, they gave the sheet a half turn and wrote from end to end across the lines previously written.

Scarcity is represented in the figure by people being willing but unable in the aggregate to consume beyond the PPF ( such as at X ) and by the negative slope of the curve.

* THE MILITARY: Scarcity of Afghan Targets Leads U. S. to Revise Strategy, New York Times, 19 September 2001

" Another essay, published in the December 1733 issue of The Gentleman's Magazine, explained the popularity of " Christmas Pye " as perhaps " owing to the Barrenness of the Season, and the Scarcity of Fruit and Milk, to make Tarts, Custards, and other Desserts ", but also possibly bearing " a religious kind of Relation to the Festivity from which it takes its Name.

Scarcity and Survival in Central America: Ecological Origins of the Football War.

" Physicians in geographic Health Professional Shortage Areas ( HPSAs ) and Physician Scarcity Areas ( PSAs ) can receive incentive payments from Medicare.

Scarcity of water and of permanent pastoral land required them to move constantly.

Scarcity deprives people of the ability to make particular choices and diminishes their humanity.

; Scarcity rent: Scarcity rent refers to the price paid for the use of the homogeneous land when its supply is limited in relation to demand.

Scarcity of wood in increasingly deforested England and discoveries of large quantities of coal in Birmingham's county of Warwickshire and the adjacent county of Staffordshire speeded the transition.

Scarcity of word options also drastically limited discussion involving quantity, pronouns, and many common words.

Scarcity value is the economic factor that increases an item's relative price based more upon its relatively low supply.

In 1977 the IFDP published its first work, Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity, and has since continued publishing policy briefs and analysis on the world food system and the inequalities that are caused by it.

In 1980, the highly influential work of Allan Schnaiberg entitled The Environment: From Surplus to Scarcity ( 1980 ) was a large contribution to this theme of a societal-environmental dialectic.

The Environment: From Surplus to Scarcity.

* Scarcity: A perceived limitation of resources will generate demand.

* Scarcity rent emanates from excess demand for ( or restricted supply of ) the good or resource.

* Scarcity ( forcing future-turn planning by players ) of available corporations, shares thereof, train types and track tiles.

Scarcity almost always occurred on farms because of the cold climate, during which animals could not be let outside.

Scarcity and high monetary values led to the creation of several replica 250 GTOs on more common Ferrari chassis.

English rock musician Jakko Jakszyk played guzheng on the 2011 album A Scarcity of Miracles.

Bernard Lietaer, the author of The Future of Money: Beyond Greed and Scarcity and New Money for a New World, has been active in the realm of money systems for close to 40 years in a wide variety of functions.

The theme was “ From Abundance to Scarcity – Sustainability and Development in the 21st.

His visitors had crawled through the south fence and were crossing the meadow, angling toward the house.

They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.

He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.

they rode at a measured pace through the valley.

The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.

The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.

There's only one way they can get out now and that's through the Gap -- if we ride hard we can take them ''.

He fled through the door and down the steps, running, and the men grunted and followed, pushing Lester to one side where he backed against the wall with the sleeve of his jacket raised before his eyes to shut out the light.

He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

Mike passed through it and moved toward the dark mass of horses.

These poured through the gate and joined the flight.

The guerrillas were running across the parade ground and through the rear gate in the wake of the departing horses.

The three of them floundered through the door into the interior and fell in a heap.

Some tore entirely through the whipsawed post oak.

The glow of the fire reached through the openings in the windows, giving light enough to examine Mike's wound.

The bullet had torn through the flesh just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming a pool of blood on the floor.

But it had missed the bone and had passed on through.

Before we get through he'll have the Blackfeet hankerin' for our hair and our goods.

They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.

The water was there, so much of it that it spread all through the dead orchard.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

They filed out through the guard-room door, into the paved square.

They reached the guard house without alerting the men on the walls above, and Powers slipped through the door.

As he passed through it Barton shoved his gun against the man's side.