Sentence examples for because of famine or from inspiring English sources

His grandfather had moved there from Shaanxi Province ("probably because of famine or war").

Such small populations foster inbreeding and increase the potential for local extinctions because of famine or natural disaster.

Many Chinese are haunted by the history of famine, or remain loyal to Maoist ideas.

Of these only eight per cent are victims of famine or other emergency situations.

It also moves from a binary concept of "famine" or "no famine" to a graduated approach that captures a range of food insecurity situations. 2 One potential use of the famine scale is in conjunction with early warning systems, to help guide the level of humanitarian response and to provide a greater opportunity to recognise a potential famine.

Rather than being a place that crosses our radar because of famine, civil war or the legacies of colonialism, we're entering an era in which it becomes a place where western powers directly intervene to protect their interests.

This was not because of another famine or a new disease, but simply that an eminent panel of doctors and academics working for the Lancet published findings that showed the existing research on child mortality had got it wrong.

Mainly because of famine, drought, and disease, large swaths of people will be exported to the Moon or floating satellite canvases and inner atmosphere colonies.

North Korea has said in the past that 220,000 people died because of famine in 1995-98.

When we see pictures of children starving because of famine, we all jumped in to help and mobilised and did something because we felt morally responsible.

The opposition has criticized Kim Dae Jung for not using the meetings to focus on the hundreds of thousands of North Koreans who international aid workers estimate have died because of famine and floods and the government's failure to adopt agricultural and market reforms.