7 sentences with 'starvation'
Example sentences and phrases with the word starvation and other words derived from it.
• « Rationing ensured that only civilian populations in the actual war zones could face total starvation, but famine was widespread. British farmers were considered so important to the war effort that they were excluded from conscription and hailed as heroes in government propaganda. »
• « The ghettos alone ended up costing the lives of approximately 500,000 people through starvation and disease. »
• « In the winter of 1932 - 1933 in particular, peasants throughout the USSR (and especially in the Ukraine) starved to death - probably around 3 million people died of starvation, and the process of collectivisation resulted in another 6 - 10 million deaths, including those who were executed for resisting. Thus, the total death toll was probably more than 10 million. »
• « One of the only aspects of communist ideology that was reflected in the reality of the USSR was that industrial workers, while forced to work in conditions far from the "workers' paradise", were at least spared the worst depredations of the purges and did not face total starvation. »
• « As South Korea evolved into a modern, technologically advanced and politically democratic society, the North became a nominally "communist" tyranny in which poverty and even outright starvation were tragic realities of life. »
• « When the bamboo territory in which the panda lives becomes abnormally small, the death of the plants becomes synonymous with panda starvation. »
• « Of eleven thousand soldiers encamped at Valley Forge, twenty-five thousand died of starvation, malnutrition and disease. »