Sentence examples for enduring famine from inspiring English sources

Sir David Attenborough has attacked the idea of sending food aid to countries enduring famine as "barmy" and has urged for more debate about population control, it has been reported.

If the victims in our kitchens, the billion a year victims in our kitchens, are given any consideration at all, they are brushed over as if a necessity to survive an enduring famine, a third of which we then proceed to waste.

A commonly accepted hypothesis is that this response evolved to enable organisms enduring famine to survive until food returns and they can successfully reproduce (Holliday 1989).

Humans have at least 100,000 generations of evolution as hunter-gatherers, enduring feast and famine, acting as predators and hoping to avoid being prey.

We speculate that the long-term consequences of early-life famine exposure include both the selection of the hardiest and the enduring deleterious effects of famine on those who survive.

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Today, Somalia is enduring the region's worst famine and drought for 60 years, threatening 750,000 lives.

This potential lag in the public's consciousness may reflect enduring dispositions created by social marketing of famine in the 1980s and the tremendous health burden posed by the spread of HIV in the 1990s, which coincided with a massive increase in resources for global health from western donors.

Born out of occupation and civil war, like its comrade parties that once ruled from Warsaw to Vladivostok, the Chinese Communist Party has brought down some curses of its own too: the famine of Mao's Great Leap Forward, the violence of the Cultural Revolution, the enduring repression of the laogai, China's gulag.

Greg Barrow, a spokesman for the WFP, said securing an enduring truce was vital to getting supplies to the two million people in urgent need of food assistance – and to staving off famine.

He thought about enduring.