Sentence examples for fierce droughts from inspiring English sources

Farmers in Isiolo have been struggling to keep their businesses alive as the cows and goats they rely on are dying in Kenya's increasingly long and fierce droughts.

Think of these two apocalypses as nuclear winter (an effect of nuclear war, not known in 1945, in which even a regional nuclear exchange could devastate the planet) and climate change summer with, as we've experienced this year in the U.S., its extreme weather, fierce droughts, raging wildfires, and rising sea levels.

On the southern edge of Sonora, the wild chili crop failed almost completely during the fierce drought in 2009.

The fierce drought may simply be an anomaly, of course, but it may be a sign of things to come.

Even a fierce drought that has badly damaged the state's corn crops has been offset by federally-subsidised crop insurance held by many farmers.

More likely, though, it was the failed monsoon that withered crop yields in India, or the fierce drought that hit most of the United States this year and that many other places still confront.

Perceptions of Somalia as an international case for intensive care were reinforced last year, when the UN declared famine in parts of Somalia, where a fierce drought on top of years of conflict between a weak transitional government and Islamist insurgents from al-Shabaab pushed the country over the edge.

Perceptions of Somalia as an international case for intensive care were reinforced last year, when the UN declared famine in parts of the country, where a fierce drought on top of years of conflict between a weak transitional government and Islamist insurgents from al-Shabaab pushed the country over the edge.

But with much of the nation suffering from a fierce drought as well as record high temperatures, Boxer apparently decided the time was right to shine a spotlight on the issue.

In the summer of 1988, when a fierce drought gripped the Midwest, there was little runoff, nutrient levels were low, and almost no hypoxia occurred.

This year's harvest of wheat, rye, barley and other grains, withered by prolonged and fierce drought, was 49.7 million tons, the State Statistics Committee reported Monday.