Sentences with phrase «followed by the famine»

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

Not exact matches

After devastating famine in the late 1950s followed by social upheavals of the Cultural Revolution in the»60s and»70s, China turned to a more pragmatic approach to economic development when Deng Xiaoping ascended to power at the end of that period.

Right out of the story of Joseph in Genesis, Wall Street is worried that these seven years of «plenty» will be followed by seven years of relative «famine».

Famines will be followed by disease and violent struggle.

In a paper published recently in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) that looked at demographic data from more than 310,000 Chinese women, Song demonstrated a dramatic sex ratio decrease more than a year after the two - year famine began and lasting about two years after it ended, followed by an equally significant bounce back to pre-famine proportions.

A follow - on 2013 study from another team valued the economic cost of that release at $ 60 trillion, which would be incurred mostly by developing countries in the form of increased droughts, floods and famine.

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.

In 2011, Stone, Parker and Avenue Q creator Robert Lopez debuted the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, which followed two naive Mormon missionaries on a trip to Uganda, where their efforts to share their religion are repeatedly sidelined by a ruthless warlord, famine, disease, and poverty.

This was followed by a field trip to an abandoned famine village.

I was reminded that what frightens me most about climate change — which will by itself cook forests, kill thousands of species, and alter the chemistry of the oceans — are the famines, mass migrations, and wars that could follow.

The first rain gauges in the Sahel date from 1898 and they reveal that a major drought, accompanied by large - scale famine, in the 1910s, followed by wet conditions during the 1920s and 1930s reaching a peak with the very wet year of 1936.

Joseph told Pharaoh that his dreams came from God telling him to prepare for seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine.

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.

Furious volcanic blasts have been historically associated with climate change: an eruption of Mt Tambora in what is now Indonesia in 1815 was followed by Europe's notorious «year without a summer» in 1816, along with widespread harvest failure, famine and outbreaks of disease.