Sentences with phrase «by famine»

The flight to Egypt by the holy family to avoid death leans on the story of the flight to Egypt by the people of Israel to avoid death by famine.

Aid helped save the lives of 750,000 people affected by the famine last year, feeding 2.6 million people across Somalia and providing emergency assistance to many more.

The feast of fall is always followed by the famine of spring.

Bangladesh: a relactation programme among refugees affected by famine was also successful, with women (if not the infant's mother, then a relative or friend) being induced to lactate within a few days.

He or she could be delivered by a starving mother in the growing wastelands of Somalia, a failed - state gripped by famine and war.

But more important, it describes the value of the integrated analysis being done by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, organized by the United States Agency for International Development, to try to cut the chances that a drought like the present one could spawn a famine.

Over-consumption creates «consumption inequity» by withholding the possibility of alleviating stark under - consumption in countries ravaged by famine and poverty.

Ehrlich preached a Malthusian near - future in which hundreds of millions would perish by famine as the world's unchecked population growth spiraled to infinity.

The Sahelian countries of Africa, where 100,000 persons were felled by famine last year, received relatively little of this surplus food.

An agricultural peasantry could be reduced to utter penury by famine conditions, and in the Sudan recently, they have been.

As such it is the unluckiest, the most tragic period in history: «And it shall come to pass that whoever gets safe out of the fire shall be destroyed by famine... for all the earth shall devour its inhabitants.»

Nor can I erase the loss of a birth family too besieged by famine and poverty to care for a little boy, but I can honor their sacrifice.

After the collapse of the USSR, the North Korean regime found itself in a hostile geopolitical environment: its state apparatus was fragile and plagued by famine; a dynamic and fast - growing South Korea was pulling away economically; and the North's remaining ally, China, was far from reliable.

For two decades Somalia has been torn apart by famine, bloodshed and some of the worst poverty on earth.

For that matter, more «outcrossing» with males in the mix could also spread the epigenetic changes brought on by the famine experience, he said.

Led by Virginia Zarulli, an assistant professor at the University of Southern Denmark, and James Vaupel, a research professor at Duke University, the team analyzed mortality data going back roughly 250 years for people whose lives were cut short by famine, disease or other misfortunes.

In addition, our world is currently the sad witness of energy crises and speculation, of health disorders caused by the overabundance of food in some places and by famine elsewhere, and of old diseases in a new form as a result of antibiotic - resistant microbia.

Wealthy countries will discover what it is to be impoverished and already poor countries will be devastated by famine, pestilence and death.

The land needed for energy crops could encroach on what little land is available for food in countries threatened by famine.

The forecasts have been corroborated by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, which in August 2015 predicted El Nino would prevail from October to December, resulting in below - average rainfall for parts of the Southern African region.

On another count, it is only through Joseph's suffering that Jacob and his family escape from death by famine.

Like most westerners, my image of North Korea was not a good one: a backward, totalitarian state, gripped by famine and ruled by fear, and in a state of uncertainty after the recent death of its leader Kim Jong - il.

Creating upscale stores in emerging markets ravaged by famine and poverty for the sake of «investment growth» exacerbates the already impoverished human condition.

And the rider on the pale green horse is Death: death by the sword, by famine, by disease.

Those who stay in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but those who go out and surrender to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have their lives as a prize of war» (21:8 - 9).

The majority of those killed were by famine and Stalin refused to free up reserves.

Through the plague shall they die, perish by sword and by famine, become dung on the face of the ground, with none to mourn and none to bury them.

The «problem» will be «solved» long before that, by famine, water scarcity, disease and war.

Back in the early 1980s, he used to host a yearly lunch - press conference for reporters, where he would routinely predict the end of the earth as we know it, struck down by famine, pestilence, death and destruction.