(n.) General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.
Example Sentences:
(1) Somalia has faced drought; famine; decades of conflict, now involving the Islamist rebels of al-Shabaab among other groups; the absence of an effective, central authority; and spiralling food prices.
(2) Those areas remain under the control of al-Shabaab, the Islamist insurgents, who have restricted access to those affected by famine because they view western aid agencies with suspicion.
(3) Stephen O’Brien, the UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, told the security council in New York on Friday that more than 20 million people in four countries – Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan and north-east Nigeria – were facing starvation and famine, numbers that would make this the largest humanitarian crisis since the end of the second world war.
(4) If you have a second generalised failure of crops across the region you will certainly have the early set in of a food crisis or possibly a famine in the Sahel,” he said.
(5) Hagere Selam remains a modest place of mudwalled shops with corrugated roofs, cows, donkeys and sheep wandering unpaved streets and children idling away an afternoon at table football – a generation with no memory of the famine that killed hundreds of thousands and woke up the world.
(6) In 1830, the Celtic seaboard nations made up nearly 40% of the United Kingdom; that dropped throughout the 19th century due to the Irish famine and emigration.
(7) Famine is stalking Somalia after a year of poor rains and heavy fighting, with more than a million lives at risk and little sense of urgency from the international community, the top UN envoy to the country warned.
(8) Effects on health include an increase in mortality rates, famine and infectious disease epidemics.
(9) The UN warns that 800,000 children could die from starvation, and last week declared a famine in some parts of the country.
(10) The alternative is a famine akin to that seen in Ethiopia 30 years ago.
(11) Natural "bridges" could also be created to help the pandas escape from a bamboo famine.
(12) "What ends up happening is we only intervene when the malnutrition gets to a famine level or a humanitarian emergency level, and then what's the cost of that?"
(13) Since the mid-1970s, the mental health treatment system in the U.S. has faced budgetary famine.
(14) That television news report by the BBC's Michael Buerk in 1984 framed Ethiopia for a generation as a place of famine and in need of salvation.
(15) When drought struck India in 1877 and 1878, the British imperial government insisted on exporting record amounts of grain, precipitating a famine that killed millions .
(16) Famine has already been declared in parts of South Sudan .
(17) There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades.
(18) After all, it was the state system that allowed an estimated one million people to starve during the ‘arduous march’ famine of the late 1990s .
(19) According to Unicef, some 250 children die from malnutrition daily in Yemen and scenes in Mazrak at times resemble a famine.
(20) She worked in the highly infectious “red zone” near Freetown and wrote in a diary for the Scotsman how she had been inspired to become a health worker after seeing images of the Ethiopian famine in the 1980s.
Rare
Definition:
(a.) Early.
(superl.) Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.
(superl.) Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.
(superl.) Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.
(superl.) Thinly scattered; dispersed.
(superl.) Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Guillain Barré syndrome following herpes zoster is rare and only 25 cases have been reported to date.
(2) Hypothyroidism complicated by spontaneous hyperthyroidism is an interesting but rare occurrence in the spectrum of autoimmune thyroid disorders.
(3) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
(4) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
(5) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(6) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
(7) During this period he developed autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, a rare complication of myelofibrosis.
(8) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(9) This analysis demonstrated that more than 75% of cosmids containing a rare restriction site also contained a second rare restriction site, suggesting a high degree of CpG-rich restriction site clustering.
(10) These are rare tumours comparable to abdominal desmoid tumours.
(11) They can rarely be detected spontaneously but most often are provoked.
(12) A rare case of an extradural brucellosis granuloma in the thoracic region is presented.
(13) Massive osteoplastic bone tumor in hepatocellular carcinoma is very rare.
(14) Aneurysmal bone cyst is an uncommon benign lesion that rarely presents in the craniofacial region.
(15) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
(16) Useful studies on the relationship between these acute lesions and peptic ulceration are rare.
(18) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
(19) Metastatic tumors of the small bowel from extra-abdominal sites are rare.
(20) Perinephric abscess is a rare condition; it may be acute, but can take a chronic and atypical course as a result of incomplete treatment with antibiotics.