Sentence examples for damage ration from inspiring English sources
When London last staged the Olympics, in 1948, the capital was still scarred by bomb damage, ration cards were required to buy food, and the athletes were housed in the homes of volunteers.
Sugar is still rationed; war damage is still evident; blackout paper lingers on some of the château's windows; bicycles, cigarettes, and Citroëns are in short supply.
In response to the severe agricultural damage, the government initiated a food ration.
It's an ambivalent period, a dark and difficult time" – food is still severely rationed, London is ravaged by bomb damage, demobbed soldiers are looking for work and there is widespread poverty.
I rationed our food, I kept our candles going, I surveyed damage and helped our neighbors, not once freaking out.
And the damage may be permanent: São Paulo, Brazil's largest city and industrial center, has begun rationing water and is discussing whether or not it will need to depopulate in the near future.
Despite the collateral damage of some small publishers being screwed over, a narrowed selection of titles, and the eventual rationing of stuffed seats, this place, and others like it, revolutionised the book buying experience – mostly for the better.
Direct food aid – importing emergency food rations on a large scale – overrides local efforts to produce and distribute food, and tends to damage local and national resilience rather than support it.
