Sentence examples for resist famine from inspiring English sources

The reason is that AIDS attacks exactly those capacities that enable people to resist famine.

Now it is attacking the capacity of these countries to resist famine by eroding those mechanisms that enable populations to fight back -- the coping abilities provided by women.

As a result of H.I.V., the worst-hit African countries have undergone a social breakdown that is now reaching a new level: African societies' capacity to resist famine is fast eroding.

For many Kenyans, the promise of free fuel in the middle of a looming famine was too much to resist.

It is also likely that disease and famine undermined the will to resist: there were smallpox epidemics in the early 1890s, widespread rinderpest in 1892 95, and locust plagues throughout the decade.

The plant was what she called a "2961," meaning it was Variant No. 2961, the only local strain bred to resist cassava mosaic virus, a disease that caused a major African famine in the 1920s.

The article says that GM potatoes are modified to resist blight: "the fungus that devastated Ireland's potato crop and caused famine back in the 1840s".

Pirates resist.

Resist it.

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