Sentence examples for sustained droughts from inspiring English sources

In the miniseries, a man and boy attempt to travel a nation wracked by searing heat, sustained droughts, monster storms and dangerous exposure to bad dialogue.

Others are less certain and thus stated as probabilities, like the increase in the number of Katrina-level hurricanes or sustained droughts, or changes that radically cut crop yields.

► Uncertainty presents challenges to accurately quantifying severe sustained droughts from streamflow reconstructions, especially early in the tree-ring record.

"[GM] is about making crops durable enough to survive sustained drought.

A fierce, sustained drought in the US, with 170 all-time US heat records broken in June alone, has already hurt world food stocks.

We have seen sustained drought in the Southwest, and across the world average temperatures that seem to reach new records every few years.

The projected lake level of about 1,080 feet above sea level will be below the level of about 1,082 feet recorded in November 2010 and the 1,083-foot 1,083-footred in April 1956 during another sustained drought.

But a sustained drought that relief officials say is even more sweeping than the one that led to the 1980's famine has caused Ms. Bati's luck to run out.

China, which has long served as North Korea's food supplier of last resort, faces its own food crisis as a result of a sustained drought, and, according to US State Department documents made public by WikiLeaks, Beijing has become increasingly exasperated by the seemingly intransigent stance taken on the nuclear issue by the administration of Kim Jong-il.

Current climate models predict, for example, that the southwestern United States will experience sustained drought for decades.

The recent sustained drought in Southwest China affected more than 80% of the vegetation in three provinces of Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou (Wang et al., 2010).