Sentence examples for left the population from inspiring English sources

And he stubbornly defended Robert Mugabe, even as Mugabe's policies destroyed Zimbabwe's economy and left the population to starve.

Islamist-inspired terrorism, and a brutal counterinsurgency campaign that emerged in response, have left the population deeply traumatized.

Many Ukrainians have done the natural thing and left: the population has fallen by 2m in less than a decade.

Plunging oil prices are threatening disaster in Libya, where civil war has left the population depending on fast-dwindling oil revenues to survive.

In the nearby regional capital of Maiduguri, it has carried out a series of bombings and political assassinations that have led to a wave of repression by the military, and left the population in fear.

Unfavourable climatic conditions the so-called Little Ice Age of the 17th century—resulted in frequent crop failures; in 1693 94 and 1709 10, much of the country suffered food shortages that left the population vulnerable to epidemics.

By contrast, our government believes that this program has failed, leaving the population weary of reform.

This combination leaves the population less able to withstand an emergency of this kind.

In fact, more Guyanese still live outside the country than in it, leaving the population at little more than 700,000.

While the move is fraught with dangers, it is considered preferable to leaving the population in one place.

Leaving the population control to nature, he said, "would subject horses and burros to mass starvation and dehydration," he said.