Example collocations logo

Hunger in sentence

912 examples of Hunger in a sentence

“How can we be expected to build the socialist economy,” asked a Ukrainian peasant, “when we are all doomed to hunger?”
As famine spread that summer, Stalin refined his explanation: hunger was sabotage, local Communist activists were the saboteurs, protected by higher authorities, and all were paid by foreign spies.
As Lemkin knew, terror followed famine: peasants who survived hunger and the Gulag became Stalin’s next victims.
And there, no issue was more important to him than tackling hunger and spurring growth through agriculture.
And yet, despite progress, millions of Africans continue to suffer from hunger and extreme poverty.
For Annan, the eradication of hunger was not an end but rather a means to creating a more just and peaceful world.
The PRI demonstrated in this election that it had more money, unity, discipline, and hunger for success than its adversaries.
As the world’s population grows, so does pressure to eliminate hunger – but progress so far has left much to be desired.
In the early 1980’s, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was asked why, after 35 years of independence, the country had made only limited progress in alleviating poverty and hunger.
Indeed, in an increasingly complex and interconnected world, policies directed at a specific issue, such as hunger, can be ineffective – even counterproductive – unless they take into account related issues.
That would have a serious impact on world hunger.
If this trend continues, the outlook for world hunger will become increasingly grim.
Levels of digitalization may even influence whether countries are able to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals set by the international community for tackling challenges like hunger, disease, and climate change.
More recently, British polymath Dick Taverne warned that, “in the practice of medicine, popular approaches to farming and food, policies to reduce hunger and disease, and many other practical issues, there is an undercurrent of irrationality that threatens science-dependent progress, and even the civilized basis of our democracy.”
According to recent research, if the world stopped producing crops for animal feed or diverting them to biofuels, it could not only end global hunger, but also feed four billion extra people – more than the number of projected arrivals before the global population stabilizes.
Collectively, we are failing in the fight against world hunger.
Next week, when leaders meet in Rome, I hope that we will agree on the key priorities to fight hunger and food insecurity, and in particular to establish an authoritative source of advice on food security to governments and international institutions.
So finally let the World Summit on Food Security provide tangible evidence of a commitment from all governments to a common objective: a world free of hunger.
Not only would poppy licensing address the poverty and hunger crises that have engulfed the south of Afghanistan; it also would stabilize existing local structures, giving communities a reason to support President Hamid Karzai’s government and the international community.
But humanitarian aid, which is often volatile and overwhelmingly short-term, will not break the deadly cycles of drought, hunger, and poverty.
Without international support, Somalia’s government lacks the resources needed to break the deadly cycle of drought, hunger, and poverty.
That simple phrase neatly encapsulates Liu’s peaceful 20-year-resistance to China’s government, which began with a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square.
Outside India, as within it, Gandhian techniques have been perverted by terrorists and bomb-throwers who declare hunger strikes when punished for their crimes.
We could win the war against hunger, end conflicts, stop communicable diseases, provide clean drinking water, improve education and halt climate change.
They found that dealing with HIV/AIDS, hunger, free trade, and malaria were the world’s top priorities, where we could do the most good for our money.
Breaking the circle of poverty by addressing the most pressing issues of disease, hunger, and polluted water will not only do obvious good; it will also make people less vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
Eight of the prisoners are now entering the second month of a hunger strike.
According to the spokesman for the US Southern Command, which oversees Gitmo, the hunger strikers are disillusioned, because they believed Obama’s pledge to close Gitmo.
The eight hunger strikers are being fed through tubes inserted into their stomachs.
During my visit in 2009, a Yemeni hunger striker, Mohammad Saleh, died.
BackNext