But others were skeptical that any shortage would arise soon.

"Our usual tendency," he said, "is to assume that if shortages or problems arise, we will discover a technological fix or set of fixes."

The shortage has arisen even though the four vaccine manufacturers had anticipated that this would be a bad flu season and had made extra vaccine.

The end point is that we all wind up better off than if the shortage had never arisen.

'Priority' means that when the unscheduled but proverbial shortages arise, the Armed Forces receive the ration promised and others go without.

When war broke out in Europe in 1939, shortages arose, and Lauri began making his lures from tree bark.

Yet others were skeptical that any shortage would arise in the foreseeable future.

The current shortage arose because the harvest last year was the worst in years, hurt by typhoons and conversions of rice paddies to other uses.

A great shortage of eggs will arise.

As World War I dragged on, various shortages arose and some biscuit lines had to be discontinued.