Sentence examples for gives rations from inspiring English sources

Filled with mythic style and magical thinking, "Altiplano" feeds the eyes but gives rations to the mind.

Horace James stopped giving rations to soldiers' families, a move one missionary called "heart sickening".

During the commune system of the 1960s, in the name of "communistic reform", the nomads were herded into communes, stripped of all possessions, reshaped into production brigades, and given rations according to their work points.

But a Ministry of Defence source confirmed an incident in which ground crew had been given rations had happened.

Characters are also given "rations", helpings of restorative food, at selected locations across the game world.

It further explains that the Confederate soldiers were given rations after their release.

During the war they'd regularly been given rations of Genever to fight off the cold, thus the expression "Dutch Courage".

Mothers commented that they would either sell portions of their food rations to buy the things that their daughters felt they needed, or give rations to their daughters to sell themselves to try and prevent sex-for-exchange relationships.

They said that the food mostly comprised dry maize corn and beans of varying quantities depending on availability, and they were given rations for a period of two weeks and in some cases a monthly ration.

It reminded me of the Soviet Union's technique of giving ration cards out at polling places so that they could brag about 99percentt voter turnout.

As wards of the state, our people were not paid cash, in the new cash economy, but rather given ration cards to get flour, tea and sugar.