Sentence examples for famine cost from inspiring English sources

Ukrainian historians estimated that the famine cost the country between five million and seven million lives.

A Dangerous Delay (pdf), a report published last year by Save the Children and Oxfam, showed how the international community's slow response to the famine cost tens of thousands of lives.

In a book that recurs regularly to famines caused by western imperialism, there is no discussion of the politically engineered famine that cost millions of lives in the Ukraine in the early 1930s.

However, critics were quick to point out that it may not have been wise to quote from a communist leader who has been blamed for the famine that cost up to 45 million lives in China during the Great Leap Forward.

It will not be like the famine which cost 250,000 people their lives in Somalia in 2011.

The Great Leap Forward of 1958, and the ensuing famine of 1960 and 1961, cost at least 20 million lives, again by Spence's reckoning, while "many millions" more died in the Cultural Revolution.

Established in 1991, Dadaab has had a huge surge in arrivals this year due to fighting in Somalia as well as a famine that has cost tens of thousands of lives.

Failure to anticipate and prepare for famine carries a huge cost in deaths, disrupted lives and livelihoods, and the destitution of large populations makes subsequent development much more difficult.

An image from 2000 — just after the peak years of a famine estimated to have cost three million lives — depicts the portly dictator Kim Jong-il lifting the lid off a steaming pot in a kitchen laden with succulent meats and fruits as two white-toqued chefs and an army officer stand by.

He invites our sympathy in his first big song, complaining of his responsibilities in terms that border on camp: "Famines, earthquakes how they cost me!/ War and illness, they exhaust me".

Armed conflicts are associated with direct consequences like deaths, diseases, stress, migration and environmental destruction; indirect socio-economic disruption in the form of institutional, infrastructural and human capital destruction; and opportunity costs like famine due to disruption of agriculture as well as poverty due to disruption of commerce and education [ 1].