The person said Cingular was busy working on other projects and did not have the time and resources to devote to the efforts.

Many small firms consider that they have insufficient time or resources to devote to employment issues.

The unequal resources devoted to schools serving the poor and the affluent disgrace American public education.

Many small and medium-sized businesses do not have the resources to devote to employment matters or health and safety.

Most commercial nurseries do not have the resources to devote five to seven years needed to build up a large stock of trilliums grown fromseed.

"We don't have the resources to devote to a relatively small section of the larger community we serve," he said.

Few people have the time or resources to fully devote their lives to the study of classical performing arts today.

But Mr. Spitzer said that in some cases, local prosecutors might not have the time or the resources to devote to corruption investigations.

Mr. Gore's decision to all but withdraw from Iowa has allowed him more time and resources to devote to this region.

That will have to be scratched now; we won't have the time or the resources to devote to it.