230 examples of shortages in sentences

But what has changed is the food situation, owing partly to submarine attack, and partly to the general shortage in the food-supply of the world.

* Three striking characteristics of the warfare on this Front impressed themselves upon my mindfirst, the shortage of ammunition; second, the enormous natural strength of all the Austrian positions; third, the work of the Italian Engineers.

Second, to guard our exports so that against the world's shortage we retain sufficient supplies for our own people, and to coöperate with the Allies to prevent inflation of prices; and, third, that we stimulate in every manner within our power the saving of our food in order that we may increase exports to our Allies to a point which will enable them to properly provision their armies and to feed their peoples during the coming winter.

The growing shortage of food in Germany was alleged as the cause of some of the complaints, but cases of actual brutality, involving cowardly physical abuse and even killing were also reported.

The breakdown of the German offensive was attributed by the Allies to three thingsthe increase in the Russian ammunition supply, a German shortage of munitions, and the weakening of the German line for the Balkan campaign.

There is a shortage now, a greater shortage ahead of the world, and there will be shortages of supply at the source and transport in food and all raw materials for some years to come.

The restricted size imposed upon French newspapers by the paper shortage of those days crowded out of their columns everything but news in true sense, and there could be none of that in connection with the Montalais affair until either André Duchemin had been arrested or the jewels recovered from the real thief or thieves.

Difficulty was experienced throughout the year in maintaining adequate stocks owing to the shortage of labour and the many demands on our industries made by the war, but the improvement is shown by the fact that while the average output per week of depth charges was only 140 in July, it had become over 500 by October, and that by the end of December it was raised to over 800, and was still increasing very rapidly.

In order to avoid any quarrel with the curate or the government, he settled from his own pocket the shortages in the tax-lists, paying for those who had died or moved away, and he lost considerable time in making the collections and on his trips to the capital.

The doctored package would be opened and the shortage would be found.

Twenty years hence the sureties on that bond could be held for a shortage in the Treasurer's office, if it could be traced back to Mr. Roberts' term.

"In a sense we are partners; that is, we agree to work together, and to supply each other's shortages in stores so far as we can.

There was a trifling shortage as compared with the accounts of previous years, so trifling that it astonished him when he reflected upon the amounts which he had paid his two partners.

At the same time her father decided that there was no reason why her pitiful shortage of avoirdupois should be candidly advertised.

To develop these regions into a source of supplies under the strains and shortages of war-time, will be an immense and dangerous undertaking for Germany.

The mine's good, a sound, rich vein, and the labor conditions aren't bad; but there's one fatal defecta car shortage on the only railroad that reaches it.

" "Car shortage," said Miss Severance.

The first common peak, 1818, and its ensuing trough came promptly upon the establishment of the characteristic régime of the ante-bellum period, in which the African reservoir could no longer be drawn upon to mitigate labor shortages and restrain the speculative enhancement of slave prices.

Lord Kitchener has asked for another 300,000 men, and speaks confidently of our soon being able to make good the shortage of ammunition.

Tools, metal material, leather, straps and dozens of items are administered with the same spirit of jealous guardianship by Day, Lashly, Oates and Meares, while our main storekeeper Bowers even affects to bemoan imaginary shortages.

Sure you can fish: tackle shortages need not stop you.

Sure you can fish: tackle shortages need not stop you.

DEAR ALEC,What you want, my lad, is a houseboat, and I doubt whether you'll get one during this shortage of residential property.

It's trying to get outthat, and shortage of petrolthat constitute our problem now.

Plans are tentative; there are shortages of materials and particularly of skills based on experience.

230 examples of  shortages  in sentences