famine

Apparently, there was such a severe famine, that the king of Lydia decided that they had to do something crazy. People were suffering.

By means of conscripting labor, moving troops and recruiting famine refugee, the question of labor was settled.

And everybody that was affected It was like they woke up out of a dream. ? You think famine's got a class ring, too?

Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

The famine did not last three years, as is often thought, but five years, starting in early 1958 and ending by late 1962.

He said he was a loyal subject but all that changed when his father and mother died of starvation during the famine in the 90s.

"Because God did not bless us, " say Communists, "we had three successive years of famine. "

And it is all about meat, and where it comes from, while just a few hundred kilometres away, North Koreans are dying in a famine.

Though Dobley is no longer on the front lines of Somalia's civil war, it has in recent months been at the front lines of the Somali famine.

There was a famine in those days and Tortoise had not eaten a good meal for two moons.

But the famine of the 1990s, in which more than a million people might have died, inevitably resulted in a deep questioning and cynicism.

The brief account of the Great Leap Forward in On China concludes with the observation that more than 20m died as a result of famine.

What is the worst thing you could possibly do when widespread famine in Africa is all over the news?

There does not seem to be an imminent danger of famine on a world scale.

And when he had spent everything, a great famine arose in that country, and he began to be in want.

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.

Meanwhile, the emergence of informal markets since the last famine underlines how much better North Koreans' coping mechanisms have become.

This was not without significance. It meant that in time of flood or famine the peasant had a crop reserve to see him through.

is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

When the money runs out, a severe famine hits the country and the son finds himself in dire circumstances.

For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will not be plowing and reaping.

At a time of famine, it was an inflammatory statement.

And when he had spent all, a severe famine occurred throughout that country, and he began to be in want.

There I will provide for you, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty; for there are still five years of famine.

It had brought nothing but drought and famine.

The famine in Ethiopia in the 80's was just a tiny dress rehearsal. A few trucks of rice won't cut it next time.

for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

The U. N. 's food security analysis unit and a famine warning project known as FEWS-NET say the famine in southern Somalia is growing worse.

Some of these people say that as fall approaches, North Korea is in the midst of its worst food crisis since its late 1990s famine.

Ethiopia's government will never admit there is famine in the country: to do so would be to say it had failed since 1985.

As head of Arbor Industries, one of her projects was to triple the food supply on the famine-stricken planet of Melasaton.

Many Guizhou people lost family members in the man-made famine of China's Great Leap Forward; they still bring it up in conversation.

But wild living exhausted his fortune and a severe famine reduced him to working for a pig farmer.

The legacy of that disastrous decision, which contributed to a famine that left tens of millions dead, still weighs heavily on rural China.

And there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Before, Mr. Tandja would fly into a rage at the verymention of the word famine, according to officials and newspapers here.

He must rob them of the oil which drives their ploughs and thus produce a famine without example in human history.

but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land.

Still, the response to the famine has not been a failure everywhere.

We cherished his noble qualities, especially when the famine was at its worst, for he never demanded food!

The resulting famine killed tens of thousands across Western Europe, including up to a quarter of Iceland's population.

And today we are going back almost 80 years to the former Soviet Union and a time of immense suffering, the Ukrainian famine.

The invention of agriculture, however, did not permanently emancipate man from the fear of food shortages, hunger and famine.

If I go forth into the fields, behold the slain with the sword: and if I enter into the city, behold them that are consumed with famine.

Famine is often the sequel to war or drought.

Famine set in early, as the daily individual ration fell to 125 grams or less of "bread" (often bulked out with sawdust or wallpaper paste).

Famine is likely to spread all over the south in the next few months (see map).

The famine response is how the body of a human or animal responds to malnutrition.

In the famine in human history, people eat people things have happened, and people always did not change to the wolves.

When a drought pushes already vulnerable groups to the point of famine, we mobilize action.

This paper try to set about the background of Irish Famine, to analyse the depravation of Famine and the cause of this crucial tragedy.

So the bigger message, out of focus among stories of the famine, is one of economic growth.

The core of the book covers Mr Gill's return to the areas he had reported on during the famine a quarter of a century earlier.

Famine is often the sequel to war.

Despite the scope of the crisis, Webster says it has not received the same media attention that the drought and famine in East Africa did.

In particular, he said, US plans to turn food crops into ethanol would lead to massive famine and the deaths of 3bn people.

While those words still resonate with many farmers and shoppers today, however, they were drowned out for decades by famine.

Speaking by telephone from Nairobi, Geddo tells VOA the famine, as terrible as it is, appears to be working in favor of the insurgents.

The article suggests a general rise in affluence may at least partly account for the perceived time famine.

Global famine, war and disaster are no longer so easy to keep from the table.

He said that building up local agriculture is the best way to break the cycle of famine.

Naked, except for a light hospital gown, she is so very small and light that she seems like a victim of some terrible famine.

Earlier this year, famine was declared in six areas of southern Somalia after back-to-back years of poor rain.

As hypothermia and famine hit the continent, accompanied by an outbreak of plague, countless people died.

And he called for a famine upon the land; He brake the whole staff of bread.

This same information can be used to map the areas affected in a more acute way by drought or famine.

A stark example is the Bengal famine of 1943, during the last days of the British rule in India.

Culturally, Californians seem to accept such feast-or-famine living more than others.

We are going to have to continue to think about drought and famine.

The temporary philanthropic enterprise of the Red Swastika included redemptive activities in the time of war and famine.

They were crazed by the famine and pestilence of that bitter winter.

After several good harvests since the last big famine, in 2003, Ethiopia had a chance to progress.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says famine in Somalia is going to be worse than ever.

The volcanic winter caused Russia's worst famine, with a third of the population dying, and disrupted agriculture from China to France.

Many Irish people immigrated to the United States during the Great Potato Famine of the mid-19th century.

It was the middle of that awful famine.

He prophesied that there would be a great famine within seven years.

We were provoked to make a film about coffee after it was announced at the end of 2002 that Ethiopia was facing another famine.

And a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan as well as great affliction; and our fathers could find no sustenance .

The second year of the North China famine coincided with a desperate world situation for the United Nations.

It predicts that famine conditions will grip all areas of southern Somalia within the next few months.

The UN has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region experiences the worst drought in more than half a century.

In mountainous Kangwon province residents fear the biggest food shortage next spring since the "Arduous March" (ie, the famine).

And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.

No one wants to turn back the clock to the darker days of war, revolution, famine, and fanaticism.

A little less than two weeks ago, we declared a famine in two regions in Somalia.

In a nation convulsed by famine in just the last century, grain self-sufficiency is seen as crucial to national security.

This week, the United Nations declared a famine in parts of Somalia. A famine is declared when three conditions are reached.

Diet and agriculture must be reinvented to meet projected peaks in food demand and human numbers, Julian Cribb argues in The Coming Famine.

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD.

Faced with a severe postwar capital famine, all industry had to borrow heavily from government-regulated banks.

Warnings of flood, famine, drought and mass extinction merge into an overwhelming sense of futility.

The UN has declared that two regions of Somalia are now in a state of famine.

The latest report from the Famine Early Warning Systems, known as FEWS-NET, shows areas of northern Kenya locked in a severe drought.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease.

Logistics and medical understanding have improved. Yet, sadly, some of the conditions that created that famine have not really changed.

Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

The reason, explains Mr Jacques Diouf, is that it is not FAO's role to say which parts of the world are affected by famine.

Some of the Africa places, year after year, generation after generation, famine, poverty, starvation, hungry ghost realm.

and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine!

So peoples clothes and money, families are fierce enough to hedge against floods, droughts and famine, why?

A drought earlier this year quickly turned into a full-blown famine that has hit 4 million people and already killed tens of thousands.

Help has been too little and too late or too far from where it was most needed. The flood-gates of famine and pestilence are already open.

Famine is not the only backwash of drought in Africa.

My diet would be very expensive, and might cause a famine.

The Islamists are not the only local rulers ambivalent about the onset of famine.

The tendency to war against one another is evident even in the first book of the Bible, and famine features there too.

One year, there was a great famine in the State of Qi.

In the realistic life, people always took the pine and cypress as food in the years of famine.

The famine has prompted a shift in American foreign policy, for now at least.

Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and earnestly begged for a little food.

In the years of the great famine, hundreds of people in the countryside died of hunger and diseases.

They shall not be put to shame in the time of evil; And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Elisha returned to Gilgal and there was a famine in that region.

A quarter of a century after a famine in Ethiopia which dramatised failings in the food system, famine is again stalking the Horn of Africa.

A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and earnestly begged for a little food.

If that is the case, food security can no longer be just a matter of famine relief.

The United Nations has declared several regions in southern Somalia to be famine zones.

A country once on the brink of famine has turned itself into one of the biggest exporters of farm produce.

Still, despite drought and famine and the eventual outbreak of civil war, Alexandria was a glittering city compared to provincial Rome.

Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

He visited the historic St. Sophia's Cathedral, and went to a memorial to victims of a mass famine in 1933.

Population growth and famine were two important factors which forced hundreds of thousands of Swiss to emigrate during the 19th century.

IT HAS been known for a while that stressful conditions such as famine result in more girls being born than happens in good times.

On Egdon, coldest and meanest kisses were at famine prices, and where was a mouth matching hers to be found?

Starvation, to be exact --. Specifically. Famine. ? Famine?

There was famine in 1984, and again in 2005. Now it is about to happen once more.

Along with the foreign interventions came homegrown catastrophes: rebellions, revolutions, civil wars, famine and unspeakable cruelty.

China went from famine to fat in a few short decades, until it reached that true pinnacle of economic prosperity: it is on a diet.

Only when the famine begins to affect the ones in power do they officially announce that the country is in a food crisis.

Even the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management confirmed that no famine but a hidden hunger persists in the country.

When Woodrow Wilson couldn't give back Birth Place of Confucius back to Us, But He did buy a ticket for the Famine Relief Ball for us.

Parts of countries bordering Somalia are also in crisis, although famine has not been declared there. Not yet.

The amount of food aid on offer is tiny relative to the needs in what the United Nations recently described as the famine-hit North.

The Great Leap Forward led to widespread famine and the deaths of an estimated 30 million Chinese.

The country is experiencing its worst food shortages since the famine of the late 1990s, international aid agencies say.

Oddly enough, that did not stop the famine.

Girls are not commonly driven to suicide by implacable mothers-in-law, nor sold into slavery or exchanged for food in time of famine.

And because the problems in many places are not like those of a traditional famine, the WFP should be allowed to broaden what it does.

The intrepid guardians of the place were hourly exposed to death with famine worn, and suffering under many a perilous wound.

Poles focus on the Warsaw uprising; Jews on Auschwitz; Russians on the siege of Leningrad; Ukrainians on the great famine.

And for years famine seemed to have departed Africa.

An obvious one is Somalia, where an outbreak of famine in the south was formally acknowledged by the United Nations this week.

Inequalities apart, the perception of the time famine is widespread, and has provoked a variety of reactions.

Captain John Smith said she had saved the Jamestown colony from "death, famine and utter confusion. "

Baroness Amos said she feared that famine could spread to 5-6 more regions of war-torn Somalia, unless there was a massive increase in aid.

and also the seven empty ears of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.

Hostility toward immigrants, especially the Irish who arrived in the wake of the potato famine, was certainly around in their time.

If Nooke is right about the connection between foreign investment and famine, seems like there's plenty of blame to go around.

I'd read of an Africa trapped in a monotony of war, famine, genocide and death. And the grim stories were there.

There was no food, however, in the whole region because the famine was severe; both Egypt and Canaan wasted away because of the famine.

In the autumn of 1991 the parallels with that civil war, and the famine that accompanied it, were self-evident.

If you swing chaotically between feast and famine, there is no positive way of explaining your attitude to food to your daughter.

FEWS NET also provides data in support of USAID's effort to establish greater resilience against famine in the long term.

Office canteen does not necessarily lead to famine and starvation led to the public.

With the terrible images of African famine still fresh in mind, it is hard to believe that the occurrence of famine is declining.

"People aren't stupid, " said Peter Walker, director of the Feinstein International Famine Center at Tufts University.

As the prince of Egypt, Joseph has worked wisely for the last 7 years to prepare Egypt for the coming famine.

Those killed by the sword are better off than those who die of famine; racked with hunger, they waste away for lack of food from the field.

A famine started which, together with the war, carried away millions of lives. . .

In economic terms, Hangang was not markedly more successful than the Great Leap Forward, which led to mass famine.

N. says the war has claimed more than five million lives, mostly through disease and famine.

As a result, the famine raced from the countryside into the cities, and a reckoning still awaits those responsible.

The goal is to find drugs that trick these mechanisms into thinking that famine is at hand.

And even NK Reform Radio is getting in on the action with an original drama called What Did Kim Jong Il Eat During the Famine?

Malawi, which periodically suffered famine until a recent fertiliser-subsidy scheme came good, is to export maize to Kenya.

The Ethiopian and Kenyan governments have been particularly torn in their response to the famine.

And, we talk to people involved in efforts to help victims of the extremely dry weather and famine in East Africa.

UN figures yet to be published suggest that 80, 000 people may already have died as a result of the famine.

in the 1960s, a series of natural disasters and inappropriate policies had led China into a famine that cause many deaths.

Flooding, disease and famine and from that migration on an unprecedented scale and in areas of already high tension.

There is famine in many countries, and people are dying of malnourishment, of starvation, and of related diseases.

Deterrence works badly against a dictator who blithely imposes famine and gulags on his people during peacetime.

In 1985, Africa was suffering from famine, thousands of children were threatened by the devastated famine.

Monbiot suggested a direct connection between "feast and famine, " arguing that "our feasts cause other peoples' starvation. "

People from famine-stricken Somalia have been streaming into neighboring countries.

MSF began producing the "Top Ten" list in 1998 when a devastating famine in southern Sudan went largely unreported in the media.

North Koreans are somewhat more protected today than they were before the great famine of the mid-1990s, in which perhaps 1m died.

Their ancestors relocated to Egypt approximately 400 years before their time due to a widespread famine.

Just like the earlier famine, this incipient one is man-made.

UNICEF's Hilde Johnson says Niger is always at risk of famine.

and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.

During the famine of water, everyone looked forward to a heavy rain.

This deadly combination has historically caused similar death rates in previous famine crises in this region, " Edwards stated. "

With the worst 3-year famine(1959-1963) having been weathered through, nothing seems to stump Chinese.

As a result of Joseph going to Egypt he became the premier of the entire land when the famine swept his family and he fed them.

Rather than seeing famine as an opportunity to trust God, Abraham immediately fled to Egypt.

the inhabitants of Strasbourg were reeling from severe famine, their morale already shattered by syphilis, smallpox and plague.

The United Nations has officially declared several regions in south-central Somalia famine zones.

Cash aid (mobile cash payments) by donor countries and humanitarian organizations who provide relief in famine or post-conflict areas.

Mao's Great Famine was not merely an isolated episode in the making of modern China. It was its turning point.

Khadija says the rice has little nutritional value, but it's better than nothing, which is what they had in the famine-stricken south.

Niger has had seven droughts in the last 40 years, and this year's drought has brought famine to several regions of the country.

The people fought against disease, famine, and the Algonquian Indians, whose land the British settlers now claimed.

A hailstorm may devastate a few cantons, but it rarely causes famine.

Senior figures still daydream about self-sufficiency, looking back to Maoist doctrine and to the terrible man-made famine of the late 1950s.

I'd witnessed immense suffering in the Islamic world from political oppression, civil war, foreign invasions, poverty, famine.

With drought comes famine, while heavy rain leads to an increased risk of malaria, Rift Valley fever and outbreaks of cholera.

International donors have dispatched almost $800m of famine-aid so far this year.

At the meeting, the World Bank chief announced nearly $2 billion in new funding for drought and famine related efforts in the region.

Gradually they overcame many difficulties and succeeded in keeping alive through the famine.

Africa often enters the global imagination through news accounts of ethnic war, famine, and despotic political regimes.

The UN has already declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia, where 30% of children are acutely malnourished.

According to Indian economist Amartya Sen, the nature of famine is not a food shortage, but a power failure.

The tendency of Sex imprison during this period was limited in stopping the transmission of the famine alchemy.

There was also the fear of famine, of uncontrollable weather.

In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims.

Paradoxically , then, the world's insurance program against localized famine is itself acutely vulnerable to global food shortages .

Famine and disease have done little to offset this steady increase.

Yet, sadly, some of the conditions that created that famine have not really changed.

This classification would include earthquakes, floods, famine, volcanoes and other natural "disasters" .

Looming food shortages and famine hitting Uganda's poorest in the north and east are also feeding the demand for sacrificial rituals.

Hungry for Change is part of a growing movement of people who want to stop famine throughout the world.

As a young doctor, he saw the horrors of the Biafran famine triggered by Nigeria's civil war.

In Republic of China, the war, famine, disease which are occurred commonly and frequently, caused a great damage.

Back in the 1970s, famine touched a much bigger proportion of the world's population than the energy crisis, he says.

The scarcity of water has led to famine in the past due to lack of project addressing water conservation in the source area.

When people see you, they will think all over the would are famine.

There they spent several weeks helping with a famine relief project.

World's most influential charity tackles AIDS, tuberculosis, polio and funds famine-resistant crops to fight hunger.

Over the past three years, America's banks have gone from feast to famine and (for some) back again.

Drought and famine in the Horn of Africa have exposed further a negative consequence of biofuel production: the global food crisis.

The famine sweeping southern Somalia is posing a painful challenge to humanitarian organizations.

Today, we are warning that unless we see a massive increase in the response, the famine will spread to five or six more regions.

Zhongyuan the time famine serious, extremely sharp class contradictions.

It must make a nice change to find their farms, so often sources of failure and famine, objects of commercial interest instead.

High-yielding varieties, along with subsidized fertilizer and irrigation, have helped India stave off famine for decades.

A shower of blood shall fall, and a dire famine shall afflict mankind.

Avoiding famine will depend on a vast expansion of Africa's lagging agricultural productivity.

Not to mention Prague Spring, Afghan Wars, famine in Ukraine and Gulag Archipelago.

In 2005 the government banned the private trade in grain that had sprung up as an improvised response to the last famine.

Thousands of lives were snuffed out during the famine.

Drought, conflict and poverty have now combined to produce the necessary conditions for famine.

Susannah Nicoll says the World Food Program is not ruling out anything as it looks for ways to reach people in the famine zone.

Global overheating will also bring drought, famine and disease to inland communities everywhere on Earth.

These people would be the ones who would die first if faced with life threatening circumstances such as a drought or famine.

North Korea and Haiti are also suffering from heavy soil losses; both countries face famine if they lose international food aid.

But al-Shabab still controls the famine ravaged south, where 2. 2-million people are believed to be in desperate straits.

Worse, the village emerged in the midst of a disastrous famine brought on by rapid collectivization of farmland.

Lejeune-Kaba tells VOA the determination of a famine is not done lightly. It is based on several strict measures.

The group has tightly controlled the delivery of aid to famine victims and has banned access for many Western aid agencies altogether.

For this reason, a controversial new approach to famine relief is gaining currency within the FAO: feed animals instead of people.

The war left destruction and famine in its wake.

It is a scene from times of old, but still the way many farmers operate in rural India, where the harvest often determines feast or famine.

[O]ne particular feature of many Communist regimes [was] their systematic use of famine as a weapon.

the famine is a chance for stricter financial regulation.

Ordered to collect taxes during the famine, he refused, and threw himself into prison where he slept on a plank.

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

The African Union, based in Addis Ababa, says a famine would wreck the region's prospects and worsen general instability.

The long drought was followed by months of famine.