Sentence examples for drought claimed from inspiring English sources

The summer drought claimed even more grassland.

But the Great Credit Drought claimed many high-profile victims.

He also ended his wicket-taking drought, claiming six in three matches after almost two months without success.

In Somalia, three-year-old Moktar watched drought claim his family's livestock and crops, forcing them to leave their rural home for an uncertain future.

Nuneaton finally ended their goal drought and claimed a first win of the new Conference campaign as they beat promoted Altrincham.

Estimates from the Texas Forest Service show that the yearlong drought may have claimed as many as a half-billion trees.

The estimated economic cost of the 2011 Thailand floods, for example, was $15-20bn15-20bnrricane Katrina $125bn; meanwhile, the 2003 European heatwave resulted in more than 35,000 fatalities and the Horn of Africa droughts in 2011 claimed tens of thousands of lives and threatened the livelihoods of 9.5 million people".

Some experts think those problems have already contributed to the violence in the region, with some researchers claiming drought fuelled Syria's civil war.

Through statistical modelling, it is then claimed that this drought was made two to three times more likely by human-caused climate change.

Just in the last century, when its populations were far smaller, periodic droughts in sub-Saharan Africa claimed hundreds of thousands of lives or even more.

Drought insurance claims within the Victoria and Lorne census areas were instead higher in 2012 and 2013, which provincially saw low insurance claims ($18 and $22.5 million lower than 2006 claims, respectively) (Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation 2015).