11.  Such vital resources as arable land and water are scarce.

12.  The threat of poverty, he felt, would dissuade talented individuals from entering academia and thus deny the nation a vital resource.

13.  They also are attracted by the availability of land, the lifestyle and the abundance of such vital resources as water.

14.  Water is a vital resource, and its conservation helps preserve adequate supplies for the future.

15.  By centralising the production of textbooks, the Ministry will not just hasten the supply and delivery of this most vital educational resource.

16.  Impoverished North Korea has more than a million soldiers but lacks modern equipment and vital resources such as fuel.

17.  Rather, it is because of the lack of scientific planning and management of such vital resource.

18.  The pesticides enter both the food and water chains, poisoning vital resources.

19.  He said delegates should have tried to emphasise more the difficulties many countries face in meeting their external debts, which take vital resources away from development schemes.

20.  Damascus complains that Turkey does not provide it with sufficient water from the Euphrates river, a vital resource for Syria.