Sentences with phrase «ravaged by famine»

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

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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.

With their primary food source ravaged by disease, a million Irish people died from the ensuing famine.