Sentences with phrase «with times of famine»

Blame it on evolution: Your body doesn't want to lose weight, so it becomes efficient at doing more with fewer calories when faced with times of famine, which in these modern times is called a diet.

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I feel that a lot of the time I'm either in feast or famine mode: either I have more work than I know what to do with or things are too quiet and I worry about attracting the next project.
''... Atheists who also wrote about how there was a list of all the egyptian rulers from the ancient times and no mention of Jacob who the Bible said co ruled with Pharaoh during the time of great famine.
His second visit to Jerusalem, with the collection taken in Antioch for the brethren in Jerusalem in anticipation of the famine (Acts 11:27 - 30), which I believe was the time of his private disputation as described in Galatians 2:1 - 10, is a rather long span of time to allow
A remake of one of the most iconic Christmas videos of all time might appeal as a means to show a human side and connect with a core demographic — you have to be over 40, ie among those who actually bother to vote, to remember Bob Geldof's musical response to famine in Ethiopia.
Men and women exposed in early gestation to the human - made Ukrainian Famine of 1932 - 33 in regions with extreme food shortages were 1.5 times more likely to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in adulthood.
Human males and females born in times of low nutritional resources (famines) are more vulnerable regarding diabetes risk in adulthood with greater risk seen in men.
Whether during the flight out of Egypt, the famine in Egypt that Joseph warned the Pharaoh about, the time of punishment in Ezekiel, or the Manna given in the desert during exile, times when grains were consumed were associated with punishment or famine.
It is upsetting that to date, persons with reading disabilities have access to no more than 10 % of the yearly book production, from specific adaptations made by inclusive associations: the term «book famine» has been coined a long time ago to describe this fact.
They believed that they were living spirits of the dead, and shared their food and tents with them even in times of famine.
A time period not yet explored, with a new set of game mechanics and some new factions, you can shape the western world in your own design, fighting barbaric tribes, vast armies and the threat of famine and disease.
Nature has two time tested ways of dealing with overpopulation, disease and famine.
Since this is the case, that the ENSO cycle is so much shorter, there is no relation between the two phenomena (ENSO and GW), with the exception that GW may trigger a change in the nature of ENSO, increasing its frequency (i.e. reducing the time it takes to complete a cycle) and / or increasing its intensity (putting people in affected areas at risk of experiencing worse famine - causing droughts, flooding, and storms).
The woefully familiar pictures coming from the Horn of Africa over the last few weeks, with famine once again stalking the lives of people there, bring with them the common refrain of our times; is climate change to blame?
This broadly coincides with the advance and retreat of glaciers that have been well documented in such books as «times of feast times of famine
Rhyl says: May 1, 2011 at 5:56 am «I have been looking for a much longer time period of history that correlate world events with climatic events eg LIA with famine, plague, witch burnings, crop failures, wars etc and MWPeriod with growth of wealth, cathedral building, improved living conditions, and / or wars, territorial expansion.
I have been looking for a much longer time period of history that correlate world events with climatic events eg LIA with famine, plague, witch burnings, crop failures, wars etc and MWPeriod with growth of wealth, cathedral building, improved living conditions, and / or wars, territorial expansion.
Cooked bacon sandwiches for Sprogs» breakfast (to remove temptation from fridge for The Great Famine of 2012); did grocery shopping; bought Husband six - pack of beer for New Year's Eve party; bought chooks 25 kg bag of scratch mix; staggered to car with 25 kg bag of scratch mix; washed and hung out two loads of washing; filled recycling bin with empty bottles and cartons; baked eggshells to make grit for chooks; assembled wraps for Husband and Sprogs for lunch; baked banana bread to use up manky banana supplies; baked biscuits with Sprog 2, who doesn't like banana bread; shut back door 50 times to stop plague of mozzies getting in; shut front door 20 times to stop plague of mozzies getting in; killed lots of mozzies; threw out old magazines and newspapers; put crap away from recent car trip; cleaned chook shit out of chook house; sorted three baskets of clean laundry; unpacked and repacked diswasher; returned to supermarket for forgotten essentials: toilet paper, broccoli, sparklers and last shot of caffeine before The Great Famine of 2012; cooked dinner; washed Sprogs» hair and painted Sprog 2's toenails rainbow colours for New Year's Eve party; copped grief from Husband for painting Sprog 2's toenails (some sexualisation nonsense); went to New Year's Eve Party; reluctantly abandoned third glass of French champagne after being reminded of designated driver status; drove Husband and Sprogs home from New Year's Eve party; took Unisom; collapsed in bed at 11.50 pm.
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