Sentence examples for dramatic hunger from inspiring English sources

In the same year a series of dramatic hunger strikes by Republican prisoners in which 10 men died (7 of whom were IRA members) generated sympathy for the Republican cause and helped to increase Sinn Féin's popularity among Catholics in Northern Ireland.

This coming year may see a dramatic increase in hunger due to rising food prices from crop failures, including this summer's in the US midwest after a scorching drought in which the Mississippi river nearly ran dry and crops withered.

Nevertheless, it can be hard for charities and the government to focus attention or funds on chronic malnutrition when the country is battling a more dramatic type of hunger, which is more straightforward to address: acute malnutrition.

They found dramatic reductions in hunger and malnutrition, and concluded: "This change does not appear to be due to an overall improvement in living standards or to a decrease in joblessness in these areas...

But spending another World Food Day quoting dramatic statistics about hunger strikes me as less helpful and constructive than instead pausing to reflect on the more mundane reality that while every human must eat, not every human sees food in the same way.

Dramatic effects on hunger and satiety are seen, but few patients become underweight and then usually only in association with major surgical complications.

But while Mr. Pollono has clearly absorbed influences from his peers and forebears, he folds them into a clever plot that could have been cooked up only in the social networking era, putting a new engine in a classic dramatic plot: a man's hunger for retribution.

Directed by The Fighter's David O Russell, the dramatic comedy also stars The Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence as Cooper's love interest.

Yet studies of two of the 20th century's most dramatic famines -- the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-5 and the 1942 Leningrad Siege -- showed equivocal associations between famine and sex ratios.

20% said the increase in pupil hunger they had seen was "dramatic", while 68% said it was "moderate".

They describe dramatic weight loss among many of the hunger strikers, force-feeding, putting protesters in isolation and at least one suicide attempt – though that has been denied by military authorities.