Sentence examples for the persistent drought from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, the persistent drought does put pressure on Japanese wrestlers.

As if being deposed by Oklahoma in the seismic rankings weren't humiliation enough, California has been deflating this year as an indirect consequence of the persistent drought.

Giannini's research has conclusively demonstrated that the persistent drought that afflicted the Sahel region in the 1970s and 1980s could be tied to rising sea surface temperatures worldwide.

The persistent drought, which is affecting most of North America, is affecting more than the price of food at the supermarket.

Did the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which tried to stabilize food prices by paying farmers not to produce crops, succeed in stopping the deflationary collapse of prices, or was the persistent drought responsible, amplified by other scarcities?

4. California Sinks As if being deposed by Oklahoma in the seismic rankings weren't humiliation enough, California has been deflating this year as an indirect consequence of the persistent drought.

Long spared the persistent droughts that have plagued the western United States this century, the Southeast suddenly finds itself the most rain-starved region of the country.

In the U.S., persistent drought on the Colorado Plateau has so significantly lowered water levels in the Colorado River and Lake Mead that Hoover Dam is fast approaching the day when it will no longer produce any power.

There are many factors behind this: unfavourable climatic conditions and impact of internal conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa; slowdown of production in Asia and the Pacific; persistent drought in the Near East and North Africa.

Cowin and his colleagues sat before lawmakers and took turns delivering a series of sobering facts and figures about the state's persistent drought: The mountain snowpack was dismal; conservation is falling far short of Gov. Jerry Brown's 25% mandate; officials are curtailing water rights.

The rainfall alleviated persistent drought conditions across the state.