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Example sentences for: famine

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The famine is also synonymous with British oppression.
This left 100,000 dead, with even more dying from famine and disease, while 150,000 were taken captive.
In speeches, Gerry Adams, the head of Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political wing, continues to evoke the famine to condemn British occupation of Northern Ireland.
Cook implies that--at the height of Stalin's terror, and years after a planned Ukrainian famine that was arguably a genocide--those who disagreed with Eleanor and Esther Lape's quest for diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union were rustic lunkheads to a man.
As in the case of slavery and the Holocaust, alongside which the famine will be taught, there must be a culprit.