Sentence examples for historic famines from inspiring English sources
The epidemiological analysis reveals that, in common with many historic famines, the direct causes of excess mortality were predominantly diarrhoeal disease and malaria, occurring as two distinct epidemics within the space of a few months.
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Blair did not apologise for Bloody Sunday, although while he was in office he did apologise for Britain's role in other historic tragedies, like the Irish famine.
With NIH research spending at a near-historic high, exceeding $28 billion, but success rates near historic lows, scientists are suffering "famine amidst plenty," he said at the AHCJ panel discussion.
The situation in the country has since deteriorated into the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with nearly 7 million people at risk of famine and an historic cholera epidemic that has infected more than half a million.
"Most people know about the famine but not the historic sites," she said.
Anyone with a teaspoon of historic sensibilities about the country's environmental history might want to mention its long litany of famines which occurred precisely because carrying capacities were consistently outstripped by a growing population.
At a time of continued conflict in Syria and looming famine in East Africa, it's hard to find any good news about the world's historic displacement crises.
Neither the Great Purge nor the Ukrainian famine, nor even the pact between Stalin and Hitler, seem to have troubled his faith in the genius and historic rectitude of the Soviet dictator.
They called them famines.
