Sentence examples for famine followed from inspiring English sources

Impoverishment and famine followed.

Famine followed as the night the day.

Acute famine followed, called the Hongerwinter — the hunger winter.

When the state applied Lysenkoism to the business of planting wheat, famine followed.

There is a dramatic symmetry to the Carberry timeline: seven years of famine followed by seven years of feast and, finally, a late-blooming summer with England.

The Know Nothings developed after America's first major immigrant boom in the 1840s: tens of thousands of Irish began emigrating in the wake of the potato famine, followed a few years later by Germans and other Europeans fleeing the failed European revolutions of 1848.

If they fail, famine follows.

Just as famine follows a more or less predictable cycle, so too does the institutional strategy for overcoming it.

The first priority is a massive disaster relief operation to prevent further deaths as disease and famine follow in the wake of the hurricane.

Tens of millions died in the famine that followed Mao's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The famine that followed Vietnam's experiment with collectivisation in the 1980s generated a government obsession with self-sufficiency in food.