supply是什么意思？

Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross-functional teams.

What about supply? The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

The trend began in 2007, when leading wheat-exporting countries such as Russia and Argentina limited or banned their exports, in hopes of increasing local food supplies and thereby bringing down domestic food prices.

In response to those restrictions, grain-importing countries are trying to nail down long-term trade agreements that would lock up future grain supplies.

As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries.

Today, Americans are finding their own tips and tricks   for fixing malfunctioning devices with supplies as simple as paper and glue.

This helps them pick the right startups, and means they can supply advice and connections as well as money.

They do not provide a sustainable energy supply.

When that flow is interrupted, we feel the pain in short supplies and higher prices, At the same time, we derive massive economic benefits when we buy the most affordable energy on the world market and when we engage in energy trade around the world.

They aim to be self-sufficient in power supply.

But the 1980s brought new competition from Japanese film company Fuji Photo, which undermined Kodak by offering lower prices for film and photo supplies.

Alternative forms of energy- bio-fuels, wind and solar, to name a few are certainly being funded and developed, and will play a growingrolein the world's energy supply.

The Second World War led to an inadequate supply of food  in Britain.

an inadequate supply of food        

To supply as many varieties of goods as it can.

I am making my way through Columbia University, surrounded by students who quickly supply the verbal answer while I am still processing the question.

Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross functional teams.

The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

This helps them pick the right startups, and means they can supply advice and connections as well as money.

The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.

It filled its stores with abundant supply of merchandise.

The report focused on poor urban areas, where farms in or near cities supply relatively inexpensive food.

For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod ( ' , 鳕 鱼) provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

It is one thing to say that we are going to shift 30 percent of our electricity supply from, say, coal to nuclear power in 20 years.

But it is another thing to have a supply of trained talent that could let you carry out this promise.

In less-developed countries, such as those of sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia, wastage tends to occur primarily at the farmer-producer end of the supply chain.

Better irrigation can dramatically improve crop yield and about 40% of the world's food supply is currently derived from irrigated land

Indeed, on a global scale, fertiliser manufacturing consumes about 3-5% of the world's annual natural gas supply.

Rising population combined with improved nutrition standards and shifting dietary preferences will exert pressure for increases in global food supply

The move was prompted by OPEC's desire to raise prices by restricting supply and by its opposition to US support of Israel in the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War.

Stored underground in large salt caves in Louisiana, this stockpile is called the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and currently contains over 600 million barrels of oil, roughly equivalent to one month's supply

A snack bar producer discovered that the supply of purely grass-fed Bison met was scarce.

Based on the finding, the researchers suggest that the key to boosting your willpower is to believe that you have an abundant supply of it.

But after General mills bought Epic in 2016, Collins and Forrest suddenly had the resources they needed to expand their supply chain.

But once these plants use up their stored reserve or tap out the underground supply, they cease growing and start to die.

For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

He quickly learned what the market has demonstrated: Demand for grass-fed products currently exceeds supply.

In addition to supplying milk from their own 85-head herd, they began to help other farmers in the area convent from conventional to certified organic and grass-fed in order to enter the Maple Hill supply chain.

More than drones dropping a new supply of underwear on your doorstep, Apple's massively successful brick-and-mortar-and-glass retail stores and Amazon's small steps in the same direction are what should keep old-fashioned retailers awake at night.

The Burean of Labor Statistics projects that while the number of nurses will increase by 19 percent by 2022, demand will grow faster than supply, and that there will be over one million unfilled nursing jobs by then.

The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal c

They may have a home to shelter themselves, but it does not have power supply, a telephone or plumbing.

When they started researching the supply chain, they learned that only 2-3% of all Bison is actually grass-fed.