Sentence examples for suffer famine from inspiring English sources
Well-governed countries never suffer famine; but of the 25 worst-nourished nations, all are badly governed, some spectacularly so.
Populations on coasts, in Bangladesh, for example, face the prospect of devastating flooding, while those who live at the edge of spreading deserts could suffer famine and increased disease.
Still, it's shocking that so little heed is being paid to what the United Nations says is the worst humanitarian crisis since 1945: the danger that about 20 million people in four countries will suffer famine in the coming months, and that hundreds of thousands of children will starve to death.
Why all the fuss?China has not suffered famine for 40 years.
Instead ʿAbd Allāh suffered famine and military defeats in the eastern Sudan.
The country suffered famine in the 1990s and has relied on international food aid since.
Our assistance has helped millions of people in Ethiopia, a country that has suffered famine and instability over many decades.
Malawi, which periodically suffered famine until a recent fertiliser-subsidy scheme came good, is to export maize to Kenya.The drought cycle in east Africa has been contracting sharply.
Archaeology Evidence of Cannibalism Things were indisputably miserable for the early colonists of Jamestown, Va., who sailed from England expecting to find gold and instead suffered famine, disease and attacks from American Indians.
Yet, in the province of Wollo and to a lesser extent in Tigray, residents suffered famine exacerbated by entitlement failures that were made worse by the poor system of transport between regions.
Stan Rosen, a University of Southern California political science professor who leads the university's East Asian Studies Center, noted that the Cultural Revolution under Mao was so violent in part because it unleashed the bottled rage of a society that had suffered famine, impoverishment and brutal rule — and had no outlet for its grief.
