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famine造句
181 Development economists have long argued that drought need not lead to famine; well-stocked inventories and effective distribution can limit the damage. 182 Similarly, it is indefensible to be inactive in the face of third world poverty and famine. 183 A special series of graded poll-taxes towards famine relief began in February 1922. 184 Central authority has collapsed, and 100,000 people have already died from the combined effects of the fighting and famine. 185 Famine and refugee crisis On Jan. 12 Mogadishu's water supply failed after the looting of diesel fuel from the pumping station. 186 Gallows loomed in the shadows of her dreams and dead babies and famine, and a blonde woman with sly green eyes. 187 United Nations experts say as many as four million people are facing famine after a severe drought and crop failure. 188 Both places represent semiarid savannas and have repeatedly been affected by drought and famine. 189 This was especially so in 1942 and 1943, when the Great Bengal Famine stalked the land. 190 The heartlands of political opposition to the government, where there is no precedent of famine, have been worst affected. 191 Millions of people in Africa continue to die because of war and famine. 192 Modified viruses could cause famine by destroying crops or cause human and animal diseases of tremendous power. 193 Like Concerned Women, it also grew out of the great famine of 1974. 194 After all, nothing could be worse than the war-torn, economically deprived, famine stricken homelands which they left behind. 195 Disease, famine and death are dogs of war. 196 Thousands died or emigrated during the Irish famine. 197 There was a great famine in across the nation. 198 The peasants store up the grain against famine. 199 From the 1840s to the Civil War, Irish Catholic immigrants fleeing from famine spurred the growth of cities and provided the labor for canal building and railroad construction. 200 Children In famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. 201 This East African nation, famous for its ancient rock-hewn churches, Solomonic emperors, and seemingly intractable poverty, has a long history of famine. 202 In the famine I got familiar with this famous surname. 203 Devastation struck in 1944 , the year of the Dutch famine. 204 Spend a year of plenty the way you spend a year of want and remind yourself of famine even when the barn is full. 205 They decided not to count on foreign aid to relieve the famine. 206 The Bolshevik revolution soon found itself besieged by imperial Western armies, as well as threatened by counterrevolution, urban famine and a bloody civil war. 207 The greatest emigration came after the famine years that began in 1846. 208 Floods, droughts, famine, war, pestilence, plagues, and economic booms and busts are familiar companions in the up-and-down cycle of human history. 209 Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift. 210 Girls are not commonly driven to suicide by implacable mothers-in-law, nor sold into slavery or exchanged for food in time of famine.