Sentence examples for confronted famine from inspiring English sources

The other Allied powers had no compunction about depleting Chiang's limited resources as he confronted famine in one part of China and Japan's depredations in another.

Social cause gaming, or the use of games to promote awareness of societal problems, has been growing since pioneer online projects like Food Force, the United Nations World Food Program's 2005 game about confronting famine, and Darfur Is Dying, MTV's 2006 offering in which players navigate the terrors of a Sudanese refugee camp.

What makes him want to throw up is not that one child dies every ten minutes in Yemen or that five million South Sudanese people are confronting famine, it's the garbled words of a bumbling Trump minion.

A young girl, Hanna Renstrom, is sent away from her isolated rural home because her family, confronting a famine, can no longer feed all its members.

The United Nations confronts war, famine, disease, climate change and much else, but perhaps the greatest and most persistent challenge the organisation has faced is the tendency of its member states to deny it the leadership its work requires.

Thus, while the press covers the shortages in Venezuela nearly every day, and in a quite histrionic fashion which ignores the complexities and subtleties of the situation there, there is almost a total blackout of the real famine confronting The Wayuu of Colombia just over the border.

Under its absolute rule, confronted by embargoes from almost the entire world, the Chinese nation paid an enormous price, in famine and civil strife, yet achieved at last an unchallenged national independence of a truly sovereign state within the Western established international order.

"We never confronted anybody".

Nobody confronted them.

He confronted Basmanova.

Once confronted, she confessed.