Sentence examples for thresholds of death from inspiring English sources

But just about the only areas where that drought has spelled famine, as defined by certain thresholds of death and malnutrition rates, are Shabab-controlled areas.

In July, the United Nations declared that parts of southern Somalia had met the technical criteria of famine as defined by certain thresholds of death and malnutrition rates.

Therefore he ignored the entire field of psychic phenomena until he himself was on the threshold of death.

Stirrings Still describes a man on the threshold of death, a man haunted by a "missing word".

It's as though only suffering, only standing at the threshold of death, could fully kindle his enormous gift.

In religious times they were seen, with a certain gravitas, as at the threshold of death, facing the prospect of the last judgment and eternal life.

We never read the replies from Michael who is gradually descending into a nightmare of anorexia and depression that takes him to the threshold of death.

"That autumn I learned from my own experience that a man can cross the threshold of death while occupying a body that is still not dead.

After the assassination attempt of 13 May 1981, it appeared evident to his holiness that it was a "motherly hand which guided the bullet's path," enabling the "dying pope" to halt "at the threshold of death".

Give us the threshold of death that you need in order to believe that this is happening, and we'll meet at that time and we can start doing something".

In Missouri Mr Hodgman is a misfit, but writes with humour and self-mockery that bring levity to the painful, central subject of "Bettyville": caring for a parent on the threshold of death.Betty's frail exterior masks her fieriness.