Got along as best we could on rationed meat and sugar. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : to ration out food to an army. ,to ration an army with food. ,to ration meat during war. ,The civilian population was rationed while the war lasted. From Dictionary.com.
Cuts of meat or fish are offered to him in rationed stores. From Wordnik.com. [Survivor] Reference
rationed care – America is already waist-deep in rationed care. From Wordnik.com. [Democrats slam GOP as party of 'fear' in health care debate] Reference
Anyone who doesn't believe that their healthcare isn't already being rationed is fooling themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Palin warns of 'disturbing' health care rationing] Reference
For believing in capitalism, a free market and rejecting the idea of rationed healthcare. From Wordnik.com. [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference
When discussing health care reform, don't be scared by words like "rationed" or "socialized.". From Wordnik.com. [Dr. John Daley: Single-payer system would give us the world's best care] Reference
Overpriced coverage with limited or "rationed" services is what I see now with my insurer – it can't get worse. From Wordnik.com. [Obama: private insurers shouldn't fear public plan playing by same rules] Reference
We live in a world of scarce resources where everything is naturally "rationed" based on who can afford those resources. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Truth Squad: Is health care rationing in the cards?] Reference
"We live in a world of scarce resources where everything is naturally" rationed "based on who can afford those resources ...". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Truth Squad: Is health care rationing in the cards?] Reference
To call market based allocation "rationed" is doublespeak. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
To call market based allocation "rationed" is doublespeak mayor q. says. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
No matter who wins, the spoils were squandered, are now vastly reduced and will be 'rationed' so to speak. From Wordnik.com. [Works and Days] Reference
And by last month, that number had risen to 133,000 - 10,000 more Alaskans "rationed" out of their coverage. From Wordnik.com. Reference
And yet, the 'rationed' socialist healthcare here in Britain is still a metric fuckton better than what you get in the US. From Wordnik.com. [freshnews.org - most clicked links] Reference
And yet, the 'rationed' socialist healthcare here in Britain is still a metric fuckton better than what you get in the US. From Wordnik.com. [freshnews.org - most clicked links] Reference
Your healthcare will be "rationed" and a new rule will be crafted forbidding a future Congress from eliminating these panels. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Socialism is slavery; socialism is "rationed" health care; socialism is punishing hard work - no matter who gift-wraps the package. From Wordnik.com. [Conservative Beach Girl] Reference
Healthcare everywhere in every country one way or another is "rationed". From Wordnik.com. [Unfortunately Correct?] Reference
Have we planted victory gardens or rationed our food?. From Wordnik.com. [Sheehan Adds Focus to Iraq War Debate] Reference
Edwards rationed them exactly like the ship's company. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
"If all fools were rationed there could be no fixed scale.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 19, 1917] Reference
Vodka is rationed to one bottle a month in Bryansk, she said. From Wordnik.com. [How Much Hunger?] Reference
They were rationed about as our own men, and from our supplies. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Everything's still rationed, it's true, England's still bleak and grey. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Frayn: The day my life changed] Reference
Each of us, on leaving the Leviathan, had been rationed with a sandwich. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
Because everything was rationed, so those two sons were dealing with what they could. From Wordnik.com. [Reindeer Nights] Reference
"Clothing was rationed and to buy a suit you needed any amount of coupons," he explains. From Wordnik.com. [London in the blitz: How crime flourished under cover of the blackout] Reference
They were moving and evocative, and if newsprint wasn't still rationed we'd run them all. From Wordnik.com. [The readers' room: what you thought of G2 this week . . .] Reference
We could buy this at reasonable rates, but the supply was always supposed to be rationed. From Wordnik.com. [Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf'] Reference
Shifting more costs to patients has simply rationed care to those who can't afford to pay. From Wordnik.com. [BAD MEDICINE] Reference
Certainly, no one likes to be rationed on water and meat throughout the foreseeable future. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
God-given wilderness will be rationed out, a campsite at a time, by a burgeoning bureaucracy. From Wordnik.com. [No Room, No Rest] Reference
We are rationed on sugar and we do not want to adopt more compulsory rationing than is necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Women and War Work] Reference
"Cuba is a country where everything was rationed and controlled except the naming of your children," she says. From Wordnik.com. [Playing a Name Game] Reference
His Garland light, sold recently by the U.K. retailer Habitat, was so popular it had to be rationed to three per customer. From Wordnik.com. [The End Of Minimalism] Reference
Essential goods were rationed, industries were nationalized and the government put draconian restraints on imports and exports. From Wordnik.com. [Anyone but Ahmadinejad] Reference
Born in 1915, George Wagner was raised dirt-poor during the Depression and came of age in the spare, rationed thrift of the wartime '40s. From Wordnik.com. [Hello, Gorgeous] Reference
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