Sentence examples for avoiding starvation from inspiring English sources

For most of our evolutionary past, the problem has been avoiding starvation.

Other officials said there was increasing difficulty in trucking in wheat, which is essential to avoiding starvation.

The Afars are almost all poor, but like most pastoralists, they have developed sophisticated methods for avoiding starvation.

"Most notably, whether the defense might be available to a seriously ill patient for whom there is no alternative means of avoiding starvation or extraordinary suffering is a difficult issue that is not presented here," Justice Stevens wrote in an opinion that the other two justices joined.

So he leaped into the fire, hoping the hermit would cook him and avoid starvation.

This month the World Food Program announced that 5.5 million people in Zimbabwe will need extra food in order to avoid starvation.

"Any contribution of calories to Afghanistan will help avoid starvation," said Ramin Rafirasme, a spokesman for the United Nations World Food Program in Quetta.

"But in order to avoid starvation, I took on the phone calls and tried to make stuff happen".

Tuning out is adaptive, he says — it helped our hunter ancestors to focus on their prey and avoid starvation.

According to Samoan legend, during a famine a grandmother and her granddaughter leaped into the sea to avoid starvation and turned into a turtle and shark.

His prospects ruined, the young man spent a year's exile in America, where he narrowly avoided starvation before returning to England.