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There he tried to find a post as a church singer, but such posts were now scarce.
First, despite being scarce and sketchy, they provide evidence that creoles are continuously changing and emerged gradually.
His approach allows improvements in both alignment and translation quality, especially when training data is scarce.
More importantly in a developing country context, scarce resources can be diverted from uses that have a higher social priority.
Therefore, our sampling strategy was sometimes a matter of ferreting out scarce ar tifacts.
Difficulties arise as a result of scarce resources, lack of career-development opportunities and professional defensiveness.
Though food was becoming scarce, women nevertheless bore the responsibility of feeding their families.
Bank-centred systems reflect the prevailing patterns of income distribution and favour the access of some groups to scarce financial resources over that of others.
What happens cannot be reduced simply to a conflict over scarce natural resources by two opposing ethnic groups.
However, experimental analyses of such hypotheses are scarce, mainly due to the paucity of suitable model systems.
Unhappily, the evidence for this provocative analysis is scarce.
There are scarce national data by which to relate the provision of public care services to needs, particularly among the oldest old.
Information about the many different migrant groups is however scarce in all countries.
If public services are scarce, users may rely on informal care as long as possible, either because this is their preference or through necessity.
The rationale behind this criticism is that economists think of "cognitive effort" as a scarce resource that people have to allocate strategically.
Physiological traits used in the breeding of new cultivars for water-scarce environments.
The literature on the analysis of quality trait data from multi-phase plant breeding experiments is scarce.
Housing was similarly scarce and its access racialized.
At the family level, published information on diversity is very scarce.
Unfortunately, data on the diffusion of different tenure systems are quite scarce, especially before 1930.
Egg parasitism was scarce on all host plants sampled and in all four agro-ecological zones.
Resources were extremely scarce, and ®nancial as well as political considerations were typically involved.
Musicians used unof®cial networks to resolve professional disputes with bureaucratic institutions and to acquire material support, especially scarce apartments.
What such depopulation meant in terms of human misery can scarce be estimated.
However, information on the effectiveness of such interventions is rather scarce in the gerontological literature.
As fuelwood had become increasingly scarce, several changes in wood collection and consumption behavior have occurred over the years.
In the absence of credit, labour scarce households are unlikely to invest in profitable methods, especially when this imposes a trade-off with their immediate consumption.
With the high degree of urbanization and industrialization on the island, land is scarce and very valuable.
However, empirical research to either support or refute this claim is scarce.
The many possible landing sites and scarce money for management are two reasons for adopting bottoms-up management.
In particular, empirical studies about the determinants of individual overcompliance are, to our best knowledge, scarce.
Indeed, overall forest resources remain scarce as compared to the world average.
In a world of scarce resources, it is unhelpful to proceed from the premise that all resources are equally valuable.
Net returns to labour, on the other hand were most relevant for farmers whose most scarce input was labour.
Project costs are measured in terms of opportunity costs: the benefits foregone by not using scarce resources in the best alternative present or future application.
Assessments of additive, mediation, and moderation processes within a single study on the association between marital conflict and child outcomes are scarce.
In the early years when the seed was scarce kin may have played a role in its spread.
Where farm labour (especially family labour) is readily available at no additional cost, the technology proved to be pro®table, even where land was scarce.
Review of both clinical and pathologic evidence finds that there are scarce data to support the concept that the entire breast requires treatment.
The above observations were made in 1932-33, when stainers were scarce in the veld.
The scarce seromuscular tunic of the vesical placental vessels often makes them go unnoticed during the pulling manoeuvres, since they collapse as veins.
The volcanic spinels are scarce and mainly related to a subductionrelated backarc setting.
Evidence of unschooled pronunciation in the 1700s is scarce because few schooled writers recorded it.
Mining companies invest in increasingly remote and politically dangerous areas or in the deep sea to reach ever scarcer reserves.
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