Sentence examples for widespread famines from inspiring English sources

We know what that led to: widespread famines and tens of millions of deaths.

The near total destruction of herds meant widespread famines; in one of those, a third of the population of Ethiopia died, according to the Food and Agricultural Organization.

It seems so long ago now, but, before the widespread famines and rampant nutritional-supplement price gouging, there was a time when there wasn't a super-expensive salt-lick bar on every single block.

By Jake Tuck June 11, 2016 It seems so long ago now, but, before the widespread famines and rampant nutritional-supplement price gouging, there was a time when there wasn't a super-expensive salt-lick bar on every single block.

Around 1300 C.E., on the other hand, a cold snap combined with wetter summers coincides with widespread famines and plague that wiped out nearly half of Europe's population by 1347.

More significant was a series of poor harvests that affected Scotland and most of Europe in the early fourteenth century and widespread famines in 1315 16 and in the later 1330s.

Misguided agricultural reforms led to widespread famine.

Nowadays the Communist Party is not causing widespread famine.

Some regions may become uninhabitable with widespread famine.

By 1965 Indonesia was $2,400,000,000 in debt and suffering widespread famine.

The good news is that the drought is not likely to result in widespread famine.