Sentences with phrase «judea during the famine»

During the famine in the late 1980s, he helped march 160,000 Tigrayan people to Sudan and feed them.

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If for example, you grow up during a famine (the Irish potato famine for instance), your body would grow but be missing certain elements and compounds needed for full development.

The following year was due to be a Sabbath year and those living in Israel hadn't been able to store up enough food during the famine to last them until when they'd next have a harvest.

During that famine, Joseph's brothers had no food; that brought them to Egypt where there was plenty.

And if the pueblos were abandoned during a famine, why would the inhabitants leave behind bushels of burned corn?

During the 20th century, an estimated 70 million people died from famines across the world, of whom fully 30 million died during the famine of 1958 - 61 in China.

Among 983 people gestated during the famine years, 31.2 percent had hyperglycemia and 11.2 percent had type 2 diabetes.

Some of the subjects were gestated during famine and some were gestated just afterward.

«Women survive crises better than men: Newborn girls are hardier than newborn boys during famines, epidemics.»

By studying the skeletons of farmers, peasants, monks, and nobles, paleopathologists hope to find out what diseases killed people from medieval times until the present — and how their overall health fluctuated during famine, war, climate change, and other challenges.

Girls born during the famine that struck Ukraine in 1933, for example, lived to 10.85, and boys to 7.3 — a 50 percent difference.

Viewed this way, humans can be considered to have lost two genes — one affecting uricase and the other affecting the ability to produce vitamin C — whose absence helped our ancestors during famine but, in today's world, may be increasing our risk for obesity and diabetes.

That's great news during a famine, but not so hot during times of plenty.

Increased survival during famine improves fitness of bacteria in a pulsed - resource environment.

Historically it happened in nature during famine.

When mammals go into hibernation, there thyroid levels drop, which slows down their metabolism so they can survive during a famine.

All of these diets work on creating a state of ketosis, which is a state our bodies naturally go into during famine and stress.

She also thinks opening - night film Black 47, a Western set during the famine, starring Hugo Weaving and Barry Keoghan, could be this year's most successful Irish film.

Students are then better equipped to understand and use the key concepts of mathematical modeling for everything from modeling bacterial growth in a colony to finding optimum food distribution methods during a famine, or planning a schedule for a tournament.

Bamboo and Blood: An Inspector O Novel by James Church: In the winter of 1997, trying to stay alive during a famine that has devastated much of North Korea, Inspector O is ordered to play host to an Israeli agent who appears in Pyongyang.

One day when I went to eat lunch and saw my friend throw out food because she didn't like it, I couldn't help but think of William during the famine and how that bit of food would have helped his family for a week.

Rather than just sending food during famine — although we have to do that to avert starvation — we also have to bring new techniques and new seeds and new technologies to more farmers so they can boost their yields and increase their incomes, feed more people and lift countless millions out of poverty.

He then advised that the surplus food production during prosperity be saved to make up for the deficit during famine.

Not exact matches

«During this period of revolution, war and famine, Lenin demonstrated a chilling disregard for the sufferings of his fellow countrymen and mercilessly crushed any opposition,» the BBC reported.

Experts note that elite talent has always been well fed and funded, even during years of famine in the late 1990s.

The resulting fall in population looks not dissimilar to what happened to Ireland during the 1840s famine.

North Korea was derailed by a devastating famine during the 1990s.

For example, the food markets in Ireland were at equilibrium during the great potato famine in in the mid 1800s.

Cassava yields well in poor soils, is drought - resistant and the roots give food security during droughts and famine making it an ideal crop for poorer areas in the world.

Documented famines with millions of deaths occurred during the little ice age because the cold weather killed the crops.

''... Atheists who also wrote about how there was a list of all the egyptian rulers from the ancient times and no mention of Jacob who the Bible said co ruled with Pharaoh during the time of great famine.

In that state, peasant families sold their children to be eaten during the era of state - created famine.

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Eventually, during a time of famine, Jacob's family migrated to Egypt.

This was likely to have been penned in AD 54 when Corinth (like many other places) was suffering famine, but Paul knew that there would be a much worse food crisis in Israel during the following two years.

During Niger's 2006 crop failure and ensuing famine, for example, feeding centers were set up for individuals, particularly children, suffering from acute malnutrition.

They were often turned to for sustenance during times of famine.

IR8 was one of the rice varieties that ushered in the Green Revolution in Asia during the 1960s and prevented worldwide starvation and famine.

The findings of the 7 published observational studies relating breastfeeding to reduced risks of diabetes were broadly consistent, despite the widely differing nature of the populations [including one study conducted in a population born during the Dutch Famine of World War II (6) and 2 conducted in Native American populations (21, 22)-RSB-.

An estimated ten million soldiers died during the First World War, in addition to one million direct civilian deaths and a further six million deaths from famine and disease, the motion notes.

While her predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, sought to eradicate famine during his two terms in government, Dilma's chief social ambition is to combat and eradicate extreme poverty.

For example, girls born to Dutch women who were pregnant during a long famine at the end of the second world war had twice the usual risk of developing schizophrenia.

The study used blood samples of 422 individuals exposed to the famine at any time during gestation and 463 controls without prenatal famine exposure.

The study evaluated how famine exposure — defined as 900 calories daily or less — during the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944 - 1945 affected genome - wide DNA methylation levels.

The authors examined individuals born between February 1945 and March 1946 whose mothers were exposed to the famine during or immediately preceding pregnancy, individuals conceived between March and May 1945 at the time of extreme famine, and controls born in the same institutions whose mothers did not experience famine while pregnant as well as sibling controls who were also not exposed to famine in pregnancy.

Mothers who were pregnant during a 1944 famine in the Netherlands, for example, were more likely to have children — and grandchildren — prone to heart disease, diabetes, and obesity.

At the beginning of the second cold era, heavy rains and severe floods devastated agricultural production, and during the subsequent famine people were forced to eat tree bark and even seeds from the excrement of wild geese.

Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the Komisarenko Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism in Kiev, Ukraine, and the Cheboratev Institute of Gerontology in Kiev are the first to conduct a large - scale study of the relationship between famine severity during different stages of prenatal development and Type 2 diabetes risk.

This tendency has its roots in our evolutionary past: people who didn't fatten up during a good harvest died out in the subsequent famine, and we are the descendants of the survivors.