Sentence examples for confront hunger from inspiring English sources

In remembering George McGovern, I am especially envious of those who had known him for many decades, back to when he was first appointed by President Kennedy to lead America's effort to confront hunger in the world and his race for the presidency.

Realizing these objectives will provide a great leap forward for the Asia Pacific region and its communities as they confront hunger, malnutrition and the challenges of building sustainable food systems in the face of their dynamic growth.

"Confronting hunger can bring diverse people together across even the broadest political, ethnic reiligious or ethnic differences," said Quinn.

No one needs special talents and skills to start, and confronting hunger is no exception.

When I told that audience of Borlaug's belief that confronting hunger through agricultural cooperation could bring people together across even the broadest ethnic, religious, political or diplomatic differences, I received a standing ovation from the more than 400 Iranian scientists led by the Minister of Agriculture.

Women make up 60percentt of the population facing a hunger risk; African-Americans and Hispanics are nearly twice as likely to confront a hunger threat -– although food insecurity for these groups has declined since 2008.

It doesn't even begin to confront the hunger being assuaged by external alteration.

Known informally as the "Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture," this $250,000 award recognizes individuals who have made exceptional breakthrough achievements enhancing human development and confronting hunger by increasing the quality, quantity and availability of food in the world.

But when such emergencies are not absorbing their attention, food banks have increasingly moved beyond providing short-term supplies of food and water to confronting chronic hunger and poor nutrition, and the reality that the poor can suffer from hunger and obesity.

Earlier this month, the authorities confronted a hunger strike by more than 80 prisoners.

But as a reader, Kraus makes me confront my own hunger for autobiographical access; it makes me aware of how much I crave a sense of the true story beneath her written narratives, even as I respect the ways they refuse to deliver any kind of one-to-one correspondence between lived and constructed experience.