Sentence examples for extent of hunger from inspiring English sources

It does not measure the extent of hunger or homelessness among people removed from the welfare rolls.

With perfect timing, an all party parliamentary inquiry has been launched to examine the causes and extent of hunger and food poverty in Britain.

The number of hospital beds in England taken up by patients being treated for malnutrition has almost trebled over the last 10 years, in what charities say shows the "genuinely shocking" extent of hunger and poor diet.

Monroe is also an active campaginer on the issue of food poverty and last week at the House of Commons handed in a petition questioning the recent escalation of the use of British food banks and calling for an emergency debate on the extent of hunger in the UK.

Jere Behrman of the University of Pennsylvania, Harold Alderman of the World Bank and John Hoddinott of the International Food Policy Research Institute have examined the extent of hunger and malnutrition and four concrete proposals to ameliorate it.Around a billion people, say the authors, are malnourished, and around a sixth of these are children.

U.S. LETTER about a private citizen's board of lawyers, university people, anti-poverty workers, etc., formed in Washington to gather information for a report on the extent of hunger and malnutrition in the U.S. Several women, mostly Negroes with large, fatherless families, and very meagre earnings, spoke to the panel about the difficulties of obtaining much needed welfare aid.

I'm just reporting [it] as it is, the extent of the hunger.

There is a fierce debate over the exact extent of the hunger strike and its causes.

She said that medical records would reveal the extent of the hunger strike, which carried on for weeks into March.

He said the government was aware of the extent of the hunger, but failed to deliver a plan to tackle it and attempted to prevent media coverage of the issue for fear of embarrassment.

The idea Last year a Guardian Teacher Network survey revealed the shocking extent of student hunger in schools, with teachers telling stories of children being given sweets, chocolate and fizzy drinks for lunch instead of a balanced nutritious meal.