Sentence examples for were close to starvation from inspiring English sources

Once, when the children were close to starvation, Sabina turned for a short time to prostitution.

It was impossible to confirm the refugees' accounts, and they said that at this point few people in Kabul were close to starvation.

For eight months islanders and the German garrison were close to starvation before the island was liberated on 9 May 1945.

In Qala-i-Nau, the capital of Badghis, one of the provinces most affected by three years of drought, US bombing caused hundreds to flee from the town to villages where people were closer to starvation than urban-dwellers.

Malta was close to starvation and running out of supplies.

Some 12m people have been affected; of whom 3m are close to starvation.

It would be a disaster for the Afghans themselves, many of whom are close to starvation.

Aid agencies estimate that 3.7m people in Somalia and millions of others in Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya are close to starvation.

They invented a phoney authenticity and pretended to live the simple life while the real French peasantry was close to starvation.

The World Food Programme, which recently launched a campaign for an extra $53m to feed 1m people believed to be close to starvation this winter, says the levels of food assistance per person required for Afghanistan are the highest in the world.

North Korea sets all this in motion when its people are close to starvation — and when we have no effective defense against such missiles and no intention of acquiring any.