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Unfortunately, he did not stop there: "It offers a necessity of life that must be rationed among those who have power over it. "

The services available under traditional Medicare and Medicaid (for the elderly and the poor respectively) would also have to be rationed.

The remaining store of tinned milk was carefully rationed out among the children.

This was the apex of the number of baby boomers in high school, and the counselors rationed the time spent on each student's paperwork.

While the company decontaminated its bioreactors, thousands of patients around the world rationed their drug supplies.

Last night we had no electricity, we rationed the fuel from the generator to provide us with a little light.

The State applies a quota system governing the number of guns for civilian use to be manufactured and rationed for sale .

During an epidemic, antiviral agents, antibiotics and other medications may be rationed or not available to the most severely ill patients.

Big game is dying in large numbers in national parks, and electricity has had to be rationed, affecting petrol and food supplies.

People were rationed to a pound of meat a week.

The Delaware River is not a commodity to be rationed, and if we think of our rivers in those terms, we lose.

Worst of all, when drugs and services must be rationed, our lives are sometimes valued less than others.

We were rationed to two eggs a week.

Cities around Beijing could have their electricity rationed to guarantee power to the capital this summer, state media reported.

People were rationed to one egg a week.

Profits can be made when energy is rationed or subsidised, but only within an economy operating at lower, or even negative, growth rates.

These rationed food can only be used on board. Please don't take them off the plane.

None of the team spoke as they struggled to fill their lungs with the thin air; words are rationed at 27, 000 feet.

The remaining water was rationed (out) carefully among the survivors.

The state sets the price, and since demand even at $500 per acre-foot greatly exceeds supply, water must be rationed.

The beddings and clothings of prisoners shall be uniformly rationed and provided by the prison.

On my way to and from the shelter, I passed a gasoline station where people lined up, hoping for a small amount of rationed fuel.

Some of the world's great rivers no longer reach the sea. In many cities water is rationed.

Young people today can hardly imagine why food had to be rationed in those days.

Families face being rationed to 80 bags of rubbish a year.

Demand must be rationed as the supply response in the short-run is trivial.

She rationed them to two eggs a week.

Companies are rationed carbon emission amount, and exchange the difference of ration and actual emission amount.

I had everything rationed: the girl had to have one egg, one carrot, perhaps some porridge, so she wouldn't starve.

Consumers received coupons for different types of goods and stood in long lines for each rationed product.

Some essential food items were rationed and locals must produce coupons to purchase their entitlements.

Electricity is being rationed at the hotel, with lights out at 1 a. m. , a little later than summer camp.

More often they are "free" or subsidised, and their use needs to be policed or rationed.

But the bourgeois system of ownership demands that knowledge and culture be rationed by the ability to pay.

They've lowered small sachets of soup to the miners who'd been surviving on a strictly-rationed diet.

a card certifying the bearer's right to purchase rationed goods.

The State applies a special permit system governing the manufacture and rationed sale of guns.

Now unless the subsidized commodity is also rationed, it is those with the most purchasing power that can buy most of it.

They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers.

Alright. . . we don't have that much left. You go ahead and eat that, Mr. Frodo. I've rationed it. . . there should be enough left.

They rationed themselves to 2 spoonfuls of tuna, half a cookie and a half-full glass of milk every 48 hours.

Faced with the blunt lending quotas, banks have rationed their credit.

services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers.

Almost everything was rationed by the state.

Food, metal, and gasoline were rationed during this time.

NCN resource usage must be measured and, in some cases, rationed.

The bureau will have rationed water for about one month before the rains come.

In the past, bank credit was rationed, and other non-bank sources of medium to long-term debt were effectively suppressed.

We were rationed to two eggs a day.

You go ahead and eat that, Mister Frodo. I've rationed it. There should be enough.

He rationed out the water to the sailors.

the population was rationed to four litres of water per person per day.

His family owned no washing machine and, since gasoline was rationed, they could ill afford trips to the laundry several miles away.

We are rationed 20 liters a person per day and sometimes have to wait four of five hours to get fuel.

The government rationed food to the public in wartime.

Using for rationed packing of particle and powder materials such as washing powder, salt, seds, sugar, etc.

To prevent problems, power is then rationed.

e. g. Sugar was rationed before.

Old women were rationed to 14 kilograms of grain a month.

Water must now be rationed.

The army is well rationed.

This is rice donated by the World Food Program. It should be rationed out directly to the people.

Sugar was rationed to 1 kg. per family.

The population of 1. 8 million has been rationed to 30 minutes of water supply every other day since October.

Concerted Action of the Dividends and Rationed Shares: Intendment of Large Shareholder Deprivation

Commodities used to be rationed

Similarly, in a healthcare market, provision is rationed by price, impersonally;

selling at a negotiable price rationed commodities which are supplied to urban and township residents;

Families are rationed to 80 bags of rubbish a year

In wartime, meat and petrol are often rationed

CHAPTER III MANUFACTURE OF GUNS AND RATIONED SALE OF GUNS FOR CIVILIAN USE

Everything from milk to cars was rationed;

rationed out flour and sugar