How To Use Short-staffed In A Sentence

  • Now, publishing houses are short-staffed, editors are harried, and money is tight. Holly Robinson: Did I Just Hammer a Nail Into My Bookstore's Coffin?
  • In Arizona, officials say, more than a hundred prison guards are serving overseas, leaving their already crowded prisons badly short-staffed.
  • Yeah, we know that compared to their counterparts around the nation, they're rather underfunded, understocked and short-staffed, and at least one local branch is downright moldy.
  • If some commuters cannot get in then some employers will find themselves short-staffed.
  • Eventually she became exhausted from the long hours at the short-staffed school.
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  • The hospital emergency room was short-staffed because of the holiday, and there was only one doctor available. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad
  • Right now, I'm short-staffed, said Larry Jue, a 63-year-old storekeeper working the cash register at his family's 70-year-old grocery store, the Sam Sing & Co. Store. In the Delta, a new flood brings back old fears
  • What does the future hold for us when we don't feel safe because we never see police in the area but a dozen officers can sit in a hall for three hours while complaining they are short-staffed?
  • The business of health care combined with staff turnover and being short-staffed can affect a perioperative nurse's morale.
  • Hospitals are overflowing with patients and many of the facilities are short-staffed. Human rights group suspects revenge killings in Libya
  • Other essential services are also short-staffed.
  • Harborview can't find the nursing and support personnel to handle the patient load it has now; it's chronically short-staffed.
  • The midwife said jokingly they were quite short-staffed so they were glad I didn't give birth in the hospital.
  • We expressed sympathy for her being short-staffed on such a busy night, and she asked if we liked free stuff.
  • They're quite short-staffed on this ward, so I doubt if anyone will get round to thinking I've gone AWOL. NIGHT SISTERS
  • Similarly, branches may be short-staffed thereby increasing loading and unloading times.
  • She tells a story of a man who arrived on a day when it was short-staffed and there was no one to put a tourniquet on his wound. 'In 10 years' time, Ghana may not require any aid at all'
  • Then, suddenly conscious that she might have been indiscreet, she added: `We're short-staffed at the moment, I'm afraid. THE ENDLESS GAME
  • We knew we weren't supposed to do it, but we did it because we were short-staffed and it was the only way to get the rounds done on time.
  • We were so short-staffed at points that senior management were often doing the duties of junior prison officers.
  • If you're so short-staffed that all they can do is keep somebody dry and fed, they're not going to have time to give the person-centred care," she said, referring to an individualized approach. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • We don't want to cause disruption to the public but we are short-staffed and our pay rise wasn't good and people are upset.
  • So everyone was very stressed, a bit short-staffed.
  • But don't worry, we were short-staffed before this, so you'll have lots and lots of opportunities to work off any residual guilt. FALLEN WOMEN
  • They're quite short-staffed on this ward, so I doubt if anyone will get round to thinking I've gone AWOL. NIGHT SISTERS
  • It also revealed that the Clyde-based agency was short-staffed on the day of the tragedy last July.
  • The hospital is desperately short-staffed.
  • Occasionally when we are short-staffed we have to pull people away from monitoring.
  • Gates said the foreign troops will still be needed in other areas, and for short-staffed training programs. Gates Warns Coalition Not to Abandon Afghanistan
  • It may be worth getting to know what recruitment resources are at your disposal even if you aren't short-staffed currently.
  • Ignore the TV dramas – your local CID is too short-staffed to investigate most crime, says Philip Johnston. Blast From The Past « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Although officially retired in 2001, Mrs Cullen regularly taught lessons at the school when the school was short-staffed.
  • The current U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti, known as MINUSTAH, was established by the U.N. Security Council in 2004 and has been helping Haiti's short-staffed and ill-equipped police to maintain security in the volatile Caribbean state, especially during elections plagued by fraud and violence. Uruguay apologizes over alleged rape by U.N. peacekeepers
  • We have been short-staffed at work because people keep going on holiday.
  • Childcare centres are too short-staffed to adequately educate young Tasmanian children, says an international speaker on education.
  • In August, we were very busy because it was so hot but we were short-staffed because a lot of people were off on holiday.

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