famines in English

noun
1
extreme scarcity of food.
drought could result in famine throughout the region
synonyms:food shortagesscarcity of foodstarvationmalnutrition
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1. Wars, famines, epidemics, and natural disasters have caused immeasurable pain, innumerable tears, and countless deaths.

2. Famines were long understood to be caused by failures in food supply.

3. By 1208, there were multiple famines and many people died of starvation.

4. Accidents, crimes, riots, wars and famines cut down millions right in the prime of life.

5. They have been slow to assuage the famines that have decimated entire peoples in disadvantaged lands.

6. 1 The famines and pogroms in 19th-century Eastern Europe forced many Jewish refugees to emigrate.

7. Wars, earthquakes, famines, diseases, and crime are just as significant as the activities of a volcano.

8. Wars, famines, earthquakes, and epidemics of deadly disease. —Matthew 24:7; Luke 21:11.

9. Historically, famines have been caused by war, drought, insect plague or some other catastrophe.

10. (Revelation 16:16) Natural disasters, famines, and epidemics add to the damage and suffering.

11. Since the late 1340s, people in the countryside suffered from frequent natural disasters, droughts, floods, and ensuing famines.

12. Such calamities as famines, diseases, earthquakes, and wars have plagued them on an unprecedented scale.

13. The famines and pogroms in 19th-century Eastern Europe forced many Jewish refugees to emigrate.

14. Jesus also said that before He comes again, there will be many wars, famines, terrible sicknesses, and earthquakes.

15. There were fewer famines and a greater agricultural surplus which allowed people to live longer and increase their fecundity.

16. He provided food for the hungry, but famines continued to plague mankind. —Mark 6:41-44.

17. * In ancient times, famines sorely affected the poor, who had neither reserves of money nor extra food.

18. Since 1914, hundreds of millions of lives have been snuffed out by wars, famines, pestilences, and other disasters.

19. FAMINE: Famines occurred in Rome, Greece and Judea, one of which is reported on in Acts 11:28

20. This frame of reference is always derived from great historical events like wars, revolutions, plagues, famines, and economic crises.”

21. Yonezawa, again representative of many other domains, entered debt, and was especially hard-struck by famines in the 1750s.

22. And ever since, pangs of distress have struck with regularity in the form of natural disasters, famines, and many, many wars.

23. Despite persistent diseases and famines, however, the population of the Indian subcontinent, which stood at about 125 million in 1750, had reached 389 million by 1941.

24. The reason why India and China no longer have these massive famines is because Norman Borlaug taught them how to grow grains in a more efficient way and launched the Green Revolution.

25. Climate Alarmism is based mainly around fear of extreme weather. This concept is deeply rooted in human nature, and has its roots in ancient stories of giant floods, famines and plagues – caused (of course) by man’s sins.

26. He replied that there would be wars involving many nations, famines, pestilences, earthquakes, an increasing of lawlessness, false religious teachers misleading many, a hatred and persecution of his true followers, and a cooling off of the love of righteousness in many persons.

27. He replied that there would be wars involving many nations, famines, pestilences, earthquakes, an increasing of lawlessness, false religious teachers misleading many, a hatred and persecution of his true followers, and a cooling off of the love of righteousness in many people.

28. A population Bottleneck or genetic Bottleneck is a sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events such as famines, earthquakes, floods, fires, disease, and droughts or human activities such as specicide and human population planning.Such events can reduce the variation in the gene pool of a population; thereafter, a smaller population, with a smaller genetic diversity