Sentences with phrase «plagued by famine»

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.

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If I could tell when the end times were on their way by the number of wars, famines, earthquakes and plagues that are afflicting our world, I'd say, «Wow!

Two overwhelming natural disasters (accompanied by lesser calamities) are described — a plague of locusts and a severe famine.

The most religious countries on the planet are the exact opposite: corrupt hell holes plagued by instability and war, famine, disease, and poverty.

For many such readers, the Bible is congenial because the world it describes is marked by such familiar pressing problems as famine and plague, poverty and exile, clientelism and corruption.

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.

Before the plague hit, the continent had been pounded by bad weather, failing crops, famine, and war.

Around 1300 C.E., on the other hand, a cold snap combined with wetter summers coincides with widespread famines and plague that wiped out nearly half of Europe's population by 1347.

They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by regulation, famine and plague, and by the wild Polar bears of the earth.»

They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.»

The Pallet House is an inexpensive, efficient and easily realizable solution to the problem of housing people displaced by natural disaster, plagues, famine, political and economic strife or 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.

In the weird world occupied by the Great and the Good, wars, poverty, famine, plague, pestilence and natural disasters can all be abolished.