How To Use Famine In A Sentence
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A notice posted on the chapel of Carrigtwohill, calling one of those meetings, warned such as absented themselves that they would be marked men, as there was famine in the parish, and they should have food or blood.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
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In a market economy it is as easy to fall as to rise, but in periods of scarcity and famine, easier to survive within such a system than outside it.
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The year 1998 marked the bicentenary of the publication of the famous Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus, in which he argued that the population of a region would always grow until checked by famine, pestilence or war.
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For decades Kalahandi has been synonymous with droughts, famines, starvation and poverty.
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War, famine and oppression have forced people in the region to flee from their homes.
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For example, warring factions often induce drought and famine through the use of scorched-earth tactics.
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It may be that the determination with which I exterminate any flies that enter my house is causing famine in the spider population.
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The goddesse of warre, called Bellona, had these thre handmaids ever attendynge on her: BLOOD, FIRE, and FAMINE, which thre damosels be of that force and strength that every one of them alone is able and sufficient to torment and afflict a proud prince; and they all joyned together are of puissance to destroy the most populous country and most richest region of the world.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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The cause of famine, consequently, is not an inadequacy of food.
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The government has pledged itself to send aid to the famine victims.
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(A striking example of this hypocrisy was the solicitude displayed by the Russian landowners last year, their efforts to combat the famine which they had caused, and by which they profited, selling not only bread at the highest price, but even potato haulm at five rubles the dessiatine (about 2 and four - fifths acres) for fuel to the freezing peasants.)
The Kingdom of God Is Within You
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Charity organizations have chastised the Government for not doing enough to prevent the latest famine in Africa.
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Another crop failure could result in widespread famine.
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They collect for famine relief and give time to good causes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cold and rain afflicted much of Europe and led to widespread famine and disease.
Times, Sunday Times
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It also has the weighty responsibility of inhibiting the conversion of body fat back into glucose for the body to burn (a hangover from our feast-or-famine cave days).
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Organizing famine relief presents huge logistical problems.
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Many Irish people went over to America during the famine.
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Forgetfulness and Famine and tearful Sorrows, Fightings also,
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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He had passed an unsettled life in continued exile up to his eightieth year; having been harassed with many contumelies and injuries, he had endured with difficulty a miserable and anxious existence, in continual trepidation; famine had driven him out of the land whither he had gone, by the command and under the auspices of God, into Egypt.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
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Civil war and famine sent the nation plunging into anarchy.
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This Ethiopian farmer is facing famine again and, to keep his eight children alive, has been reduced to collecting wood and grass from the bush to sell at market for two birr a bundle.
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We have always "feasted" to endure the "famine" that always followed -- until now.
T.S. Wiley: Sick and Tired, the Book of the Dead
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In an undesigned world, plague, pestilence, famine, diphtheria, cancer, tuberculosis, and other natural ills no longer had to be reconciled with the sovereignty of an omnipotent and benevolent deity.
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A famine in that year caused further risings by the peasants against the communists.
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A systematic aid programme might have averted the near-famine and encouraged the North to open faster.
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But there is no doubt that the number of deaths from famine and from the results of malnutrition were at least of the order associated with the great famines of the past.
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Has the world's most pugnacious advocate for the world's poor, a man who almost single-handedly brought the appalling images of famine-struck Africa into the front rooms of millions of Britons, finally gone too far?
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The controversy began last week, when Denny's launched a promotion for pancakes and French fries that supposedly "commemorated" the famine's 150th anniversary.
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angelica vestis" of the tertiary order; and the "beatified" Duchess who had sold her jewels to buy corn for the poor during the famine of 1670, and had worn a hair-shirt under a corset that seemed stiff enough to serve all the purposes of bodily mortification.
The Valley of Decision
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Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
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I probably would have hoped that famine was soon to become a fading memory in the minds of elderly people.
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As an aside, just because the Ethiopian beauty depicted on the cover was a famine victim does not make her any less graceful, willowy or beautiful.
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The recreation of the Famine ship took place at Blennerville, near Tralee, Co Kerry, and was completed in 2002.
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Another crop failure could result in widespread famine.
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And yet, in the face of famine and the rigorous winter, he went out gayly in quest of a mess of trout, forsooth, because he "doted" on them!
MOON-FACE
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The government has pledged itself to send aid to the famine victims.
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Given the hortative intent of this paper, there is not the opportunity to provide a detailed rendition of accountings during the Irish famine.
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The famine originated with the recurrent failure of the potato crop, devastating the Irish cottier and small farmer classes.
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In spite of the scale of the famine, the relief workers struggled on with dauntless optimism and commitment.
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He was to have unveiled a memorial to the Irish potato famine and those who had emigrated to the west of Scotland as a result.
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Nor could we ever overcome famine, disease, or misbirth, or make the world one bit better than it has been for -
A Canticle for Leibowitz
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More die by food than by famine.
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Bringing a child that she and Nelson had created into a world of war, famine, death, and unrighteousness did not sound like something Geneva wished to do.
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So the main causes of the famine in this case are not natural but man-made.
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He insists there is no evidence for claims money sent for famine relief was used to buy arms.
The Sun
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As the numbers come out, the word famine really starts to move people and it starts to peak the interest of the international community and the average citizen in a way that a humanitarian crisis unfortunately does not always get people active and engaged," she said.
Aid Groups Criticize US Response to East Africa Drought
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Aid agencies use the word "famine" with extreme caution, relying on a UN definition based on acute malnutrition among children under five reaching more than 30 per cent, and deaths from hunger reaching two people per 10,000.
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Thus, for example, I have found that as oidium and phylloxera are more effective than severe punishments in diminishing the number of assaults and cases of unlawful wounding, so famine succeeds better than the strongest bars, or dogs kept loose in the prison yards, in preventing the escape of prisoners, who at such times are detained by the advantage of being supported at the public expense.
Criminal Sociology
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First, as for the word bulimy, it was agreed upon by all to denote a great and public famine, especially among us who use the Aeolic dialect, putting [Greek omitted] for [Greek omitted].
Essays and Miscellanies
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Mortality during famines was rarely caused solely by starvation but from related diseases like dysentery, typhoid, and typhus.
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Please give generously to famine relief.
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It has done more to allay the physical ills of disease and famine than any other impulse known to man.
Christianity Today
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But in the developed, Western world, the feasting periods are no longer interspersed with famines.
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Foreign aid from many countries poured into the famine area.
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She resewed old clothes for the children who grew too fast, kept three chicks in the kitchen until they were eaten by a cat, and later, during another famine, after World War II, bought the last rickety piglet off a horse-drawn cart that had stopped for a few minutes on their street.
A Mountain of Crumbs
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Frankly, there's nothing worse aside from death, global famine, nuclear disaster and all-round armageddon than seeing players in the UFO field fawning all over their peers at conferences as they seek acceptance into the ufological sand-pit by saying the 'right thing' to the 'right people.'
Posthuman Blues
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In the 1940s some of his family died as they fled famine in their home town.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their granaries were overflowing with plenitude; yet they wanted to keep the sharp famine-edge of their love undulled.
WHEN GOD LAUGHS
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Except the pawnbroker's, the distiller's, and the undertaker's, the houses are literally ruins; but these doorkeepers to Famine, Disease, and Death, living by the calamities of others, are in a flourishing state.
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Technologies that helped rescue developing countries from famine in the 1970s have reached the point of diminishing returns.
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Against a background of impending famine, heavy fighting took place.
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The swarms that followed the first crusade were destroyed in Anatolia by famine, pestilence, and the Turkish arrows; and the princes only escaped with some squadrons of horse to accomplish their lamentable pilgrimage.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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There's no great dearth of terrines, no dreadful famine of chicken liver parfait and, as far as I'm aware, the meatpaste market still thrives in its own quiet way, but where oh where are the great slablike pâtés of my youth?
How to make pâté
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An emergency fund was set up in reaction to the famine.
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After the famine of 1763–64 there was talk of abolishing the annona and introducing a free market in grain.
Delizia!
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Weary, famished and despairing at the end of 1846, the peasants of one of the most famine-ravaged counties in the country hoped for better things in the coming year.
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It is a scene of utter desolation caused by the great famine of 1770.
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More than two million children are at risk of malaria and kala-azar in famine stricken Africa.
African Refugee Children at High Risk for Kala-azar, Malaria, Viral Infections
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The United Nations has officially declared several regions in south-central Somalia famine zones.
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The famine is so bad, aid can only scratch the surface.
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The time will soon come; grief and famine have already sapped the foundations of my being; a very short time, and I shall have passed away; unstained by the crime of self-destruction, unstung by the memory of degradation, my spirit will throw aside the miserable coil, and find such recompense as fortitude and resignation may deserve.
The Last Man
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The rest were made up of unfortunate women of the vilest and most ragged description, aged itinerants, with features seared with famine, bleared eyes, dropping jaws, shivering limbs, and all the mortal signs of hopeless and aidless, and, worst of all, breadless infirmity.
Pelham — Complete
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Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
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Other risks, global and potentially existential (catastrophic meteorite impact, pandemic disease, climate changes, collapse of the global socioeconomic infrastructure due to insufficient forward planning "Y2K") or "merely" regional (local famine, 'brushfire' conflicts formerly closely confined by their implications for the balance between superpowers) increased in their relative importance and/or attention regardless of any change in their independent
The Speculist: Doomsday Clock Speculist Challenge
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Walkers will then turn right up the old disused famine road, across the spectacular and beautiful Lagan Hill.
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In most people's minds, drought equals famine.
Times, Sunday Times
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The result: a perpetual cement famine, official rationing and enormous corruption.
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The famine relief money was channelled through the UN.
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Thousands of refugees are trapped by war, drought and famine.
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Getting Africa out of the slough of famine is still an uphill task.
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And you walked right up to that girl you liked and you could not stop talking about the Irish potato famine?
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Of course, a complete end to war, disease and famine across the globe would be wonderful.
Times, Sunday Times
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Millions of people gave freely in response to the famine appeal.
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Failure of crops often results in famine.
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Does our using the word cheapen its value in describing people who have been forced from their communities by war, famine, disease, or natural disaster?
How big is YOUR server?
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There are economists who will tell you that peace and government prevent famine more effectively than food aid does.
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We need famine relief, but we're just not a fashionable tribe.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rear sons for help in old age; and store up grains against famine.
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How many countries do you think actually have it all, the whole hellish quintuplet of war, famine, disease, poverty and bad leadership all at the same time?
Luso Mnthali: When Movie Stars Were Super Heroes
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Famine is a persistent problem in many parts of the world.
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The method of distribution required people to line up in front of the public Famine Pot, saucepans and pans in hand, waiting for the soup to be ladled out.
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Our scanty stock of provisions and water was gone; but there was no danger of starvation, for the generous product of the henneries and dairies of Bolinas filled the vessel's hold -- albeit raw eggs and butter without bread might only serve as a barrier against famine.
Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)
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Antra deserti teneris sub annis civium turmas fugiens, petisti, ne levi saltim maculare vitam famine posses.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Several southern African countries face famine because crops have failed as a result of drought or flooding or both.
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Despite all its natural resources and the natural resilience of its many peoples, Africa is a continent that totters on the edge of disaster as war, famine, disease, greed and corruption threaten to overwhelm it.
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The organization provides emergency famine relief.
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The famines and pogroms in 19th-century Eastern Europe forced many Jewish refugees to emigrate.
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In the 1940s some of his family died as they fled famine in their home town.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another crop failure could result in widespread famine.
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The response of the people to the famine appeal was immediate.
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The continuing civil war is frustrating the efforts of relief agencies to feed thousands of famine victims.
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Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
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Many of the Irish went over to America during the famine.
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The plight of the famine victims commands everyone's sympathy.
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Rear sons for help in old age; and store up grains against famine.
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The famine turned the normal modulation of climate into disaster.
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A poorly thought out redistribution policy could result in famine and disaster similar to what has happened in Zimbabwe.
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In general, beech nuts have been regarded as food for humans in times of famine or scarcity.
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If we go on reading about the puerile wife-swapping, the pubescent sex games, the Marvel Comics Fantastic Four superheroes, and the gratuitous martyrdom, we will gradually come to see our own suburbia as a desert vastation and our own children as Bedouins subsisting on the shifting sand, as refugees from civil war and famine.
In the Desert, Prime Time
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An evolutionary survival mechanism makes the brain interpret diets as periods of famine.
The Sun
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Thou didst cheat her shockingly, Frank, time o 'the famine, on those nine sacks of maslin meal.
The Saint's Tragedy
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Experts believe that the North Korean system is in terminal decline, and its people suffer great poverty and recurring famines.
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We made a contribution to the famine relief fund.
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Everyone, especially the poor, felt the terrible effects of the famine of 1846 and 1847 with its suffering, death and destruction.
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Ethiopia faces devastating famine, millions in other parts of the world have no drinking water and global warming is forgotten or denied.
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Many had visions, but most always interpreted them not for themselves, but to upbuild Christian community and bring hope in times of plague, famine, and ecclesiastical turmoil and to offer wisdom for the changes and chances of this life.
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The year-long fish hunger famine had given way to feast.
Times, Sunday Times
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Famine had mutated into an invincible monstrosity that was ravaging more than half of Africa's children.
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The scale of the looming disaster also places a massive burden on already overstretched relief agencies reeling from famines in southern Africa and chaos in Afghanistan.
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If insects learned to adapt to genetically engineered plants, the result could be widespread crop failure and famine, critics warn.
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After parading out this statistical data, many of these writers then allow the female emigrant of the pre-famine period to be once again eclipsed by male experiences.
Gutenber-e Help Page
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Either that or the salubrious locality she indwelleth is experiencing a nux vomica famine.
The Chimes at Midnight
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I am appealing on behalf of the famine victims .
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All of the 62 types of flowers, plants and shrubs used in the work, such as ling heather, bearberry, foxglove and gorse, come from County Mayo, which was hit particularly hard by the Famine.
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She was referring to the anarchic Horn of Africa country where the U.N. says 250,000 still live in famine conditions due to drought and conflict and a total of 4 million need aid.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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It may have been behind the worst climatic disaster of recent times, responsible for famine and death on a biblical scale.
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Famine is biting deep in isolated pockets all over the country.
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The critic recently slammed her ‘obscene’ boniness, which she felt cynically exploited real-life victims of famine, illness and genocide.
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In Italy and Greece serious food shortages almost produced famine in 1943-4.
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Henri Josserand condemned Western governments for failing to respond to repeated appeals for urgent food aid to the famine-stricken country.
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It might not be the famine of biblical proportions which decimated the country in 1984 and which wakened a disbelieving world to the plight of the Ethiopians but unless something is done it is a disaster in the making.
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Harassed by famine and excessive taxes, people will resort to eating leaves, roots, flesh, wild honey, fruits, flowers and seeds.
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Foreign aid from many countries poured into the famine area.
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Twenty years after images of starving Ethiopian children shocked the world, famine and drought continue to stalk this African nation.
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After the Great Famine, many who had started life in a windswept village found themselves ending it in Hammersmith or Hell's Kitchen.
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The purges, gulags, mass population transfers, political famines, monumental infrastructure projects built by slave labour still have few parallels in modern history.
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Famine and refugee crisis On Jan. 12 Mogadishu's water supply failed after the looting of diesel fuel from the pumping station.
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A thought it were Scriptur 'as he said, but a'd needed a' my strength just then for t 'lift t' pot off t 'fire -- it were t' first vittle a'd tasted sin 'morn, for t' famine comes down like stones on t 'head o' us poor folk: an 'a' a said were just "Coom along, chap, an 'fa' to; an 'God's blessing be on him as eats most.
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
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He left in 1983, horrified by the devastation that warfare and famine had visited on his homeland.
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Widespread famine had triggered a number of violent protests.
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The Chipini region in Africa is also been hit by drought and famine and the local committee has appealed for support.
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Sending a food critic to report on a famine was just bad taste.
Times, Sunday Times
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Famine required people to move abroad to build new lives.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Government is confident that the foregoing general ruling will enable junior and inexperienced officers, temporarily employed on famine duty, to classify appropriately and with facility as denticulate or edentulous all individuals afflicted with dental hiatus, mal-conformation and labefaction, without further reference to higher authority.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919
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The Irish famine, from 1845 to 1848, was a unique event in modern European demography and its effects comparable to those of the Black Death.
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Pop stars have raised millions of pounds for famine relief in Africa.
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Famine and war have thinned down the population in this region.
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Famine has been a recurrent problem in some African nations in recent years.
Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
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At least a quarter of a million people have died in the fighting and the resultant famines.
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From the wikipedia entry linked above: Marcus Pembrey and colleagues also observed in the Överkalix study that the paternal (but not maternal) grandsons of Swedish boys who were exposed during preadolescence to famine in the 19th century were less likely to die of cardiovascular disease; if food was plentiful then diabetes mortality in the grandchildren increased, suggesting that this was a transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.
The Volokh Conspiracy » But Isn’t It a Bit Hard to Predict With a 7-Year-Old?
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The massive emigration of Basques to Latin America, brought about by the famines of the 18th century, created a labour shortage.
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From the wikiepedia article: Marcus Pembrey and colleagues also observed in the Överkalix study that the paternal but not maternal grandsons of Swedish boys who were exposed during preadolescence to famine in the 19th century were less likely to die of cardiovascular disease; if food was plentiful then diabetes mortality in the grandchildren increased, suggesting that this was a transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups
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The power of the zemstvos themselves was lessened by taking from them such important functions as the provisioning of famine-stricken districts and by limiting in the most arbitrary manner the amount of the budget permitted to each zemstvo.
Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy
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Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
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The famines and pogroms in 19th-century Eastern Europe forced many Jewish refugees to emigrate.
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And you walked right up to that girl you liked and you could not stop talking about the Irish potato famine?
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Their families had come to the United States during the nineteenth-century potato famine.
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The famine is so bad, aid can only scratch the surface.
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Rear sons for help in old age; and store up grains against famine.
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The prime minister formally declared the country to be suffering from serious famine.
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The failure of the harvest again produced famine and unpeopled farms and hamlets.
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Another crop failure could result in widespread famine.
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Now, in the famine time, the labourer, as a rule, could not obtain money wages for the cultivation of the soil -- a fact well known to the Government; so that _money wages_ of almost any amount must withdraw him from agriculture, from the absolute necessity he was under of warding off immediate starvation.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
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When referee Alan Snoddy blew the final whistle at 4. 57pm that April day nine years ago suddenly the sun burst through, the title famine at last had ended.
Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
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The United Nations is careful about using the word famine, and in the past 20 years, only a few humanitarian emergencies have qualified, including in Sudan in 1998, Ethiopia in 2001 and Niger in 2005.
NYT > Home Page
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Many charities sent money to help the victims of the famine.
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In spite of the scale of the famine, the relief workers struggled on with dauntless optimism and commitment.
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He tells us that such was the corruption of faith and of morals towards the close of their brief day, that had not the Saxon sword interposed; plague, pestilence, or famine, or some similar calamity, must have done the fatal work.
Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune
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Then they shall receive no more reproach of famine, shall never be again upbraided with that, nor shall it ever be said that God is a Master that keeps his servants to short allowance.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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The United Nations has rushed medical aid and food to the famine zone.
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This rider announces an exorbitant price for wheat, indicating famine prices , the sorrowful result of war.
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In the 21st century the death toll from famine thus far is 600,000.
Times, Sunday Times
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Emergency supplies have been hurried to the areas worst hit by the famine.
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There is a deep satisfaction in protecting such families from the careless, patronizing charity of the thoughtless almsgiver, whose unsteady hand would give them a feast to-day and a famine to-morrow.
Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers
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a flood, a tornado, a strike, or a famine, there would go hurrying a generous consignment of the "Aglaia" at its "nothing" price.
Sixes and Sevens
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The famine, the statement concluded, reflects badly on how the UN conducts its business.
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When a plague of locusts and a bad drought struck the country last year, devastating the crops, the prospect of a famine in 2005 loomed large.
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Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
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Abroad the sword bereaves and slays all that comes in its way, and at home all provisions are cut off by the besiegers, so that there is as death, that is, famine, which is as bad as the pestilence, or worse -- the sword without and terror within, Deut. xxxii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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But Dominique Sene, the Kaolack representative of the Catholic charity, Caritas, feared "a real threat of famine" in the countryside.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Against a background of impending famine, heavy fighting took place.
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Thousands of people emigrated during the Irish potato famine of 1845-46.
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Which brings us to the more important question: Why has Africa always been so sensitive to drought, and the resulting famine that often accompanies it?
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The images of true poverty gave our tiny congregation a glimpse into the everyday life in Ethiopia, a time of famine when a bucket of unshelled peanuts would be considered a feast.
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Most of us do not occupy ourselves extensively with thoughts of the misery of others but are focused on improving our own condition, however favourably it compares with the victims of wars and famines.
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Reading it, I was struck by how few significant novels have emerged about the Famine.
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He also credits television images with increasing the empathy of the young in rich countries for the effects of poverty, famines, and civil wars in poorer areas of the world.
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The impending crisis is akin to the Irish potato famine, say biologists.
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Rear sons for help in old age; and store up grains against famine.
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Despite the stark imagery from the famines of the 1980s, it is well endowed with large areas of cultivatable land as well as mountain ranges, swamps and rain forests.
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At the same time 15 million people today face the threat of famine in the Horn of Africa.
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When the past has been this bountiful, one empty-handed season does not constitute a famine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Famine was a regular occurrence, while spices, coffee and sugar were sucked out for Western markets at vast profit to Dutch business.
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To the three great judgments of war, famine, and pestilence, is here added the beasts of the earth, another of God's sore judgments, mentioned Ezek. xiv.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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The port that served the corresponding function in the United States at the time of the famine was New York, not Philadelphia.
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Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
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When our ancestors faced periods of famine, they stored fat in their bellies with an organ called the omentum.
You Staying Young
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It's the government chaos and resulting famine that is responsible for the AIDS crisis.
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Multitudes perish by famine, a very sore judgment, and piteous is the case of those that fall under it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
