Two fundamental problems confront us: first, high and ever-rising costs of health services; second, serious gaps and shortages in these services.
These data, now being related to civilian requirements and our supply potential, will show us thegaps in our mobilization base.
In the gaps between the trunks the gloom got deep, and although the sharp top of the spur was distinct, Jimmy only saw a few small pines and junipers.
Fallen trees and tangled brush blocked the gaps in the rows of trunks, but by and by Jimmy, looking through an opening, saw the woods shine with reflected light.
The wide gaps between the various sequoia groves were areas occupied by the large and long-enduring glaciers.
The gaps would naturally have received the main ice-flows from the heights.
Then they walked round the crater staring at the big gaps which formed below a kind of cavern, with a double outlet.
Finding then the inclined gaps of granite, it gets in there, and reascends to the point at which they reach the level of the soil.
In the yard, amongst the weeds and tall, unkept grass, chickens foraged all day long; the fence was so low that the most matronly hen flew over with propriety; and there were gaps that accommodated the passage of itinerant pigs.
The gapsof human flesh wrought in the ranks of the French by the cannons of Wissembourg and Sedan had to be filled.
Then, they piled up the smashed vehicles one on top of the other, filled the gaps with sacks of oats, matresses, bundles of clothes and stones.
For some of the men made gaps in the phalanx, and others locked their shields together.
As shown by the photographs, it is an inscrutable chaos of perfectly amazing extent, where spiral bands, radiating streaks, dense masses, and dark yawning gaps are strangely intermingled without apparent order.
One of them which skirts the two dark gaps and traverses the cluster along its greatest diameter is edged with lines of stars, recalling the alignment of the trees bordering a French highway.
Making hay while the subsidy sun shone and the prosperity of the Laurier regime was at its height, the Canadian Northern pressed forward extensions, flung out branches, filled in gaps on every side.
Fleets of steamers, on the Pacific coast, on the Great Lakes, and on the New England route, filled in gaps in its lines.
Only where there were gaps to be bridged between the more important waterways was the railway at first thought profitable.
The railway was far from complete, with a hundred and twenty miles of gaps unfilled, and the government considered it impossible to get the troops in in time.
Some day, under some administration, thegaps would be filled up and the promise to British Columbia would be redeemed.
The work in hand was continued and thegaps in the road {129} between Port Arthur and Selkirk were put under contract.
First came the bark canoe, quick to build, light to carry round the frequent gaps in navigation, and large enough to hold the few voyageurs or the rich-in-little peltry that were chief cargo in early days.
Part of the gaps were bridged by temporary rails laid on ice and snow, only ninety miles being uncompleted by spring.
Unfortunately, gaps in the Register of Graduates at Oxford for the second half of the fifteenth century do not enable us to gauge the full extent of the revival, but there is sufficient evidence that the renaissance had taken place.
The hedge was in many places eight feet high and quite impenetrable, but there were numerous gapsthrough which a man might easily force his way if he could scramble up the bank and did not mind a few scratches.
They were panic-struck, and fought fiercely with each other for the gaps in the fence which would admit them to the shelter of the quinta.
Other wind-gaps of apparently similar origin may be found in Blue mountain west of the Schuylkill and east of the Susquehanna.
They are very regular in their courses, and confine the creeks and rivers that run between; and if we know where the gaps are that let through these streams, we are not at a loss to lay down their most considerable inflections.
The location of the successful lateral stream on one or the other side of the syncline may be determined by the dip of the beds, gaps being cut quicker on steep than on gentle dips.
Again, these small stream gaps do not lie between large river-gaps and wind-gaps, but wind-gaps lie between the gaps of large rivers and those of small streams that are not yet diverted.
The most important point about this is that we find in it an adequate explanation of the opposite location of water-gaps in pairs, such as characterize the branches of the Juniata below Tyrone and again below Bedford.
A few lines may be given to the general absence of gaps in Blue Mountain in Pennsylvania.
Yet this special case of paired gaps in the opposite walls of a breached anticline is manifestly a direct sequence of the development of the Juniata headwaters.
There does not seem to be sufficient evidence to support this obsolescent view, for most of the water-gaps are located independently of fractures; nor can Peschel's method of river study be trusted as leading to safe conclusions.
These three outflows are separated by two gaps just where the plexuses for the anterior and posterior extremities come in.
Smoke rose through the tree-tops of the island opposite, and through the new gaps of its forest cabins could be seen.
There were no great gapsor breaks in that life, and so we find that his writings do not ignore God's electing love and preventing grace as the source of everything good in man.
As there were neither gaps nor gates we found it impossible to net them, and so had to resort to another device.
Illustration] The human scent left at gaps and gateways by ploughmen, shepherds, and mouchers, the wary poacher will obliterate by driving sheep over the spot before he begins operations.
A couple of snares are set in gaps in an old thorn fence not more than a yard apart.
And there were long gaps in which she sat silent, playing with her napkin, the light color coming and going in her delicate cheek, lost in revery.
Others show huge gaps and rents made by the shot of the besiegers, and, worst of all, everywhere are the hated German soldiers in the streets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gaps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
