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Example sentences for: famine

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To argue, as Foer does--that the notion that the British government bears a substantial measure of responsibility for the humanitarian crisis of the famine is merely an Irish "folk tradition"--is as absurd as arguing that the blight itself was introduced deliberately in a genocidal conspiracy.
A short piece says there is a "child famine" in the Great Plains: North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming are not producing enough children to sustain their small towns.
South Africa's Johannesburg Star, commenting in an editorial on President Nelson Mandela's appeal to African leaders this week to rid their continent of tyranny, was just as pessimistic: "A man-made famine in Sudan, the current border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and ongoing difficulties in bringing peace to Rwanda are among outrages that suggest the end of tyranny in Africa is a long way off."
These arguments draw on an interpretation of the famine that has flourished since the event itself.
They are suffering an accountability famine.