Sentence examples for postwar hardship from inspiring English sources

This is very much what the 'happy land of Narnia' is about - it is a land of butter and cream, of plenty, made even more poignant because it was written during postwar hardship, when even potatoes (to Lewis's consternation) were rationed.

"As it confronts its massive debt problem…and a new austerity threatens to become its default setting, Europe seems to have lost sight of the fact that it has been there before; that the baby boom generation found its roots in postwar hardship; that…the huge affluence of more recent years could barely have been imagined as people struggled to shake off the gloom of war," he wrote.

Some young Japanese, products of a rich society, unfamiliar with the postwar hardships many of their parents and grandparents knew, do not see the value in slaving over plans and numbers when they could make money, have more contact with other people or have more fun.

Just as the hardship of postwar rationing taught a generation of Britons to waste not, want not, grow their own and make ends meet, today's youngsters are learning tough lessons that will last a lifetime.

The repatriation literature (hikiage bungaku) of returnees like Fujiwara and Miyao has struggled to maintain the memory of the hardships of postwar repatriation and pass it down to new generations.

The hardships suffered and the altered postwar economy would ultimately lead the school to move to Durham in 1892.

The writing of these authors incorporates a strong focus on the postwar experiences of civilian repatriates, as well as descriptions of the hardships that repatriates endured upon their return to a nation that was invested in forgetting its imperial past.

Lang had focused on people cast to the four winds by economic hardship and the great slump Linda Eastman was to photograph the children of the long postwar boom, the itinerants of the new rock money.

The nation that swept the postwar Labour government into power was made up of people who had faced the horrors and the hardships of the second world war.

Postwar recollections are uncertain.

postwar shortages.