Sentence examples for supply of rice from inspiring English sources

"There is no supply of rice there at the moment.

"Exhausted birds need a supply of rice and water," it said.

Around 24,000 people in Lower Shabelle and Bakool, the two regions worst affected by the famine conditions, have been given a month's supply of rice and beans.

The World Food Programme says that it has handed out a two-week supply of rice to 2.5m people in the capital and nearby areas.

"We are awaiting this month's supply of rice and sugar, which is unusually late by a few days," Mr. Abrol said.

"We currently have a sufficient supply of rice and are only looking to import supplies to further strengthen our reserves," the agriculture secretary, Arthur Yap, said in a written reply to questions.

(And Pardo does tell him, in his cheerful showman style: "That's right, Al! You lost! … Let me tell you what you didn't win … a case of Turtle Wax! A year's supply of Rice-a-Roni! You also made yourself look like a jerk in front of millions of people").

A day later the government airlifted in emergency supplies of rice and medicine.

In addition, global supplies of rice and wheat are much more robust today than during the crisis.

In February President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines, which is struggling to feed its growing population, publicly asked Vietnam to guarantee its supplies of rice.

She had skipped meals for months, she said, so her young nieces and nephews could eat the family's diminishing supplies of rice.