Sentences with phrase «gripped by famine»
He or she could be delivered by a starving mother in the growing wastelands of Somalia, a failed - state gripped by famine and war.
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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.
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«So it came to pass that Ver Omesh was gripped by a great famine.
We can imagine a situation 30 years hence in which the Chinese Communist Party's grip on power is threatened by chaotic protests ignited by a devastating drought and famine.