Sentence examples for rations for a from inspiring English sources

"That means on the ground there were beneficiaries that went without rations or went without full rations for a portion of time.

The World Food Program will cut food rations for a million people who have fled the conflict in the shattered Darfur region because it is dangerously low on money, the United Nations agency said in a statement.

GENEVA, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Hundreds of wounded need evacuation from besieged eastern Aleppo, where medical supplies are running low and there are only rations for a quarter of the population, the United Nations deputy Syria envoy Ramzy Ezzeldine Ramzy said on Thursday.

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.

The donkeys in this study were given extra rations for a number of reasons; often concentrates were provided to underweight donkeys to improve their body condition or were given to donkeys with poor dentition, that as a result had difficulty eating forage.

Enslaved life was always colloquial to its environs and discretionary to the personal choices of slave holders and the enslaved, thus "typical" rations for an enslaved person are not easily encapsulated by one account.

Five centuries ago, while the gilded youth of England headed off to Oxford each autumn with their retinues, the kilted sons of Scottish fisherfolk and farmers – tradition has it – walked to Scotland's ancient universities, each carrying a bag of oatmeal on their shoulders – rations for an entire term.

The aim is to provide life-saving medical treatment and ready to use therapeutic food rations for an estimated 437,000 severely malnourished children under the age of five in seven Sahel countries.

He has a small wind turbine and a solar panel for power, more than two months' worth of army surplus "boil in the bag" rations for food, a satellite phone and a laptop loaded with e-books to keep him going.

The World Food Program had delivered rations for half a million people in the suburbs in July, said Clare Doyle, a deputy spokeswoman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

While my pork porterhouse was large enough to be my pork ration for a month, it was a bit dry and dense.