Sentences with phrase «death 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.

Not exact matches

When accounting for later deaths caused by flood - related disease and famine, however, the toll may actually be closer to 220,000 to 230,000 people.

For what benefit did the Athenians obtain by putting Socrates to death, seeing that they received as retribution for it famine and pestilence?

That same day, I learned about more deaths in Syria, about a young man murdered by a white supremacist, about the impact of the famine in Sudan, about problems with my nation's inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women right here at home.

As late as David's time, when a devastating famine was blamed by the oracle on Saul's slaughter of the Gibeonites, two of Saul's sons and five of his grandsons, entirely innocent, were put to death and their bodies hung up «before Yahweh.»

There is obviously no holding back these starving wretches who have simply been awaiting death in some way, whether by famine if the siege continues or by the sword if there is a victorious assault.

The motive was the public rendering of thanksgiving / praise to God by the person commissioning the ritual in the presence of relatives and friends for God's signal intervention in saving the man (and his family, if the occasion called forit) from death in war or in some similar grave danger such as famine.

Of the OP's estimate of 100 million, (which I believe is high and can only be reached by including at least 40 million Chinese excess deaths) the largest single bloc of excess deaths were caused by famine in China (at least 30 million).

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

It would be more realistic if we would practice our «faith» by getting out of the «holy temple» and stoping crimes, injustice, death, famine, hunger, child molestation, etc, that we are all witness to but because there is no promise for individual reward of a eternal paradise accompanied with the beautiful scenery with candles and dim lights with magnificent ceilings and mosaics, we turn away from the real cruelty of our world and our specie.

But consider the price at which that comfort is purchased: it requires us to believe in and love a God whose good ends will be realized not only in spite of» but entirely by way of» every cruelty, every fortuitous misery, every catastrophe, every betrayal, every sin the world has ever known; it requires us to believe in the eternal spiritual necessity of a child dying an agonizing death from diphtheria, of a young mother ravaged by cancer, of tens of thousands of Asians swallowed in an instant by the sea, of millions murdered in death camps and gulags and forced famines.

Wow, we all know you are not precisely pro-Russian, but are you seriously mixing up the deaths of the Ukrainian famine with those of the WWII as if they were all killed by Russia?

The cost for Remain of recruiting Death, Plague, Famine and War to their cause is measured in credibility: that not only will the exaggerated be discounted by the public but so, by taint of association, will the legitimate.

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.

They will now be entering a period of rapidly increasing mortality,» said Lumey, «and this will provide significantly more study power in the future to detect small but important associations between famine exposure by stage of gestation and even more narrowly defined causes of death.»

Following the Black Death and famines of the 14th and 15th century, the population and economic recovery was facilitated by a decreased dependence on grains.

The «Holodomor» was a genocidal famine engineered by Joseph Stalin, as an effort to stop the Ukrainian independence movement, resulting in the deaths of millions of people.

Enlisted by Clan Akkaba to resurrect Apocalypse, Mister Sinister has cloned four powerful X-Men to serve as the deadliest Four Horsemen the world has ever faced: Jean Grey (Death), Storm (Pestilence), Psylocke (War) and Magik (Famine).

Estimates place related deaths in France, mostly due to famine, to 600,000 by the end of 1710.

Here we've been serving you a steady diet of war, famine, pestilence, death, and the U.S. Congress, and you respond by whistling «When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbin» along.»

A paper written by Benjamin Franklin in 1783 blamed the unusually cool summer of 1783 on volcanic dust coming from Iceland, where the eruption of Laki volcano had released enormous amounts of sulfur dioxide, resulting in the death of much of the island's livestock and a catastrophic famine which killed a quarter of the Icelandic population.

But it can only stop in one of two ways: either sooner, the humane way, by fewer births — family planning backed by policy to make it available and encourage people to use it — or later, the «natural» way, by more deaths — famine, disease and predation / war.

During the Ort sunspot minimum, Seine, Rhine and Po were frozen (Rhine from Nov. 15, 1076 to April 7, 1077); during the minimum of Wolf, the 1315 - 1316 famine reduced western Europe population by more than 5 % and the subsequent great plague (1347 - 1350) by 30 % to 50 %; the Maunder minimum saw in France an excess death of 1.3 M on 22 M habitants (1693 - 1694); in the following years 30 % on the Finnish population (1696 - 1697), 25 % of the Scottish population (1696 - 1699) and 10 % of the French population (1708 - 1709) died.

Though not all refugee and asylum seeking children and adolescents are subjected to these circumstances, experiences often claimed to be encountered by them include the violent death of a parent, injury / torture towards a family member (s), witness of murder / massacre, terrorist attack (s), child - soldier activity, bombardments and shelling, detention, beatings and / or physical injury, disability inflicted by violence, sexual assault, disappearance of family members / friends, witness of parental fear and panic, famine, forcible eviction, separation and forced migration (Burnett & Peel, 2001; Davies & Webb, 2000).