They that die by famine die by inches. From LearnThat.org. [Matthew Henry (1662-1714).]
The extremity of the famine is here set forth by two frightful instances of it: -- 1. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Eizzy notes that the famine is the worst in the north and east, while those in the west are relatively safe from hunger. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Uganda: Government Quiet as Famine Takes Toll] Reference
Nansen to direct the relief effort in famine-stricken Russia. From Wordnik.com. [Fridtjof Nansen - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Research and development into preventing famine is national defense. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Think Tank Industrial Complex] Reference
He set forth the basic theme that famine is wholly unnecessary in the modern world. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King - Nobel Lecture] Reference
For Sadiq, as for so many other local politicians, the famine is not a central issue. From Wordnik.com. [Sudan: A Microcosm of Africa's Ills] Reference
And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
The famine is sore indeed in the land when there is no bread to the wise, when priests and elders are starved. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
My son and his young wife and babes are now in our cavern, but reduced by sickness and want, for famine is here. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference
It resulted in famine and American politicians wanted to exploit food aid as a means of winning concessions from. From Wordnik.com. [Fridtjof Nansen: Scientist and Humanitarian] Reference
British spinmeisters appropriated the word famine for this phenomenon and it is a staple in every American textbook. From Wordnik.com. [Our Memorials to the Great Hunger] Reference
Mugabe eats lobster for his birthday while 90+% of his subjects are in famine with a cholera epidemic rolling through. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Behavioral Economics and Regulatory Policy:] Reference
For instance, in famine stricken Ireland in 1847-1848 and in. From Wordnik.com. [Friends Service Council - History of Organization] Reference
The sword or the famine is the doom thou hast chosen. From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
If the fierce scourge which men on earth call famine. From Wordnik.com. [Mazelli, and Other Poems] Reference
In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. From Wordnik.com. [Alabama Wins 2009 Grantland Rice Trophy Following BCS National Championship Game Win Over Texas] Reference
16 And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Russia argues that the famine was a Stalinist crime against the people of the Soviet Union. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
In some ways, Stalin's policy aside from the famine was a throwback to feudalism but run by the state. From Wordnik.com. [Communist Economic Policy: Stalinism or the Red Army?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
"Obviously we have endured a championship title famine int his county and we feel we have ground to make up. From Wordnik.com. [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
This, in turn, has led to a mortgage famine, which is instructing the fall in house prices and transactions. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
I remember once doing a live shot from a so-called famine camp in Ethiopia -- and actually in Somalia as well. From Wordnik.com. [Radio-Television News Director's Association 2000 Murrow Awards Ceremony] Reference
It is also extremely intersting that people that fled from the famine are the ones that made this great feast. From Wordnik.com. [Cardinal Seán's Blog] Reference
Each year of the so-called famine, food to maintain double the whole population was raised from the Irish soil. From Wordnik.com. [The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848] Reference
"I developed a special kind of hybrid maize that was resistant to famine, which is of course common in Africa.". From Wordnik.com. [Readthehook.com - Current Articles] Reference
Among Edvin Snores 'interviews are aging women who recall the famine, the massacre of their families, the Gulag. From Wordnik.com. [Republic Broadcasting Network] Reference
The Sudanese in Darfur that are being hacked by pockets of Janjaweed and being close to famine, that is oppression. From Wordnik.com. [Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52] Reference
More than 5,000 Ethiopians died because of a terrible drought in the south that recalled the famine of a decade past. From Wordnik.com. [1994, Summer] Reference
During the late separation, all tillage had been entirely neglected, and a famine was the consequence the ensuing season. From Wordnik.com. [Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome $b to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. $c By Wm. C. Taylor.] Reference
Southern Africa was facing a new kind of famine, one. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
'But you'll get failed harvests " famine " sickness, otherwise!. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Noon]
What kind of famine is prophesied to come upon them in 8: 11 and 12?. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible Second Edition] Reference
Natural misfortunes such as famine, floods, desertification and drought. From Wordnik.com. [The ANC and Challenges facing the African continent] Reference
The difference between a 'food shortage' and a 'famine' is not only one of syntax. From Wordnik.com. [Chloe Malle: 25 Years After Band Aid, Diminished Foreign Aid and Drought Threaten Ethiopia's Food Security] Reference
The ancient notion of 'famine' can also be understood to encompass epidemics and plagues. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Selman: The Four Horsemen] Reference
Against this grim outlook, however, U.N. officials stress that they are wary of warning about "famine". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
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