Sentence examples for through famine from inspiring English sources

As we evolved, humans have been through famine and starvation.

The Överkalix grandsons lived longer if their grandfathers lived through famine.

But Mao's reform campaigns, particularly his Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, brought great suffering and caused tens of millions of deaths through famine and state-sponsored violence.

Kang lived through famine in the north, the hardest hit area of the country, an account of country living under a disturbing notion of "paradise".

After graduating in 1990, as the country was suffering through famine and military upheaval, he steadily collected castoff objects and set to work in his own celebratory, magpie fashion.

Perhaps even more importantly, the worst impacts of many crises – especially those that destroy livelihoods and wreak devastation through famine and malnutrition – could be prevented or even avoided if local and national NGOs were better equipped.

This is an ancient strategy, Dr. Guarente believes, intended to let an organism live through famines and postpone breeding until good times return.

Without the pot, we never would have roamed far from sources of fresh water, and wouldn't be able to preserve food to get through famines and harsh weather.

We have clung to Adam Smith and Burke, or we have agitated for Plato and Aquinas, through wars and famine, through rising and falling birth-rates, and through libraries of learned argument.

Through feast and famine, through revolution and regime change, one thing remains constant.

My grandmother lived through the famine.