Sentence examples for combination of drought from inspiring English sources

A combination of drought, poor harvests, and soaring food prices had combined to create "the perfect storm," as Sachs referred to it.

In Malawi, vulnerable to a noxious combination of drought and flooding, there is little time to waste.

In Northern Colorado, a combination of drought and wildfire is shutting off the spigot for scores of farmers.

The combination of drought and land reform has left about 6 million people -- roughly half the population -- in need of emergency food aid.

Parts of the south-east of the US have faced a combination of drought and strong gusts of up to 80mph, culminating in intense wildfires.

A recent headline in one of Kenya's leading newspapers blared, "25,000 villagers risk starving," referring to a combination of drought, higher fertilizer and fuel costs and postelection violence that displaced thousands of farmers.

It tells of "a slow but disastrous cataclysm" for all humanity brought about by a combination of droughts, disease and war.

Focusing on 1960-2010, they found that the concurrence of all combinations of drought, heat wave intensity, and heat wave durations "have increased substantially in the south, southeast, and parts of the western USA".

The combination of severe drought and farm seizures has been disastrous.

"The combination of the drought conditions and the cool weather, we haven't seen a real takeoff in mosquito numbers".

Meanwhile, the combination of severe drought and a chaotic land reform program has left about six million people -- roughly half of the population -- in need of emergency food aid.