Sentence examples for died of famine from inspiring English sources
The Sahel was in the midst of a devastating long-term drought: close to a million people died of famine between 1972 and 1984, prompting huge shipments of Western aid.
— Nick Fox The Economist: After a million or so North Koreans died of famine under Kim Jong Il, his heir, Kim Jong Un — whose embonpoint betrays no nutritional dearth — has inherited the whole mass-starvation problem.
As one contemporary observer wrote, "Insane mothers began to eat their young children who died of famine before them; and still fleets of ships were sailing with every tide, carrying Irish cattle and corn to England".
The sprawling Kumsusan Palace, its mausoleum lined with expensive marble, is thought to have cost hundreds of millions of dollars, factoring in extensive renovations and an expansion during the 1990s, when tens of thousands of North Koreans died of famine.
Mr. Kim, who has kept his people in isolation and fearful of prison gulags, has outlived previous predictions of the collapse of his government, even after an estimated two million North Koreans died of famine in the mid-1990s.
And even if we succeeded in squeezing North Korea economically, we would be bothered much more than the Dear Leader as tens of thousands of Koreans died of famine and disease.
We Feed the World (2005) explored the grim paradox that a billion people are dying of famine in a period when enough food is produced worldwide to feed 12 billion people.
People are dying of famine, disease, war; the world is rapidly changing; economies are crumbling and elections are underway.
The invention of artificial nitrogen fertilizer, followed by Green Revolution crops genetically bred to produce much more grain per stalk, meant that rather than die of famine, people lived to beget more people, who in turn begat even more.
