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1. This type of sentiment has led to a famine of the serving attitude in the church
2. I escaped to Pallas before the Judge's famine
3. God devastated Israel through a famine before sending fire upon Elijah’s sacrifice in 1 Kings 18
4. pestilence and famine, who would uncover the
5. Nevertheless, and in the privacy of her own salon, she was quite vocal in her support of the poor oppressed victims of foreign dictators and of those unfortunates in far off lands whose lives were devastated by fire, famine and flood
6. lands whose lives were devastated by fire, famine and flood
7. 14And when he had spent all, a mighty famine in that land came; and he began to be in
8. three brothers, to famine and poverty and had to support herself from an early age
9. Agabus warns of the famine
10. “When I will send a famine through the land- not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord
11. Want, famine, and mortality, would immediately prevail in that class, and from thence extend themselves to all the superior classes, till the number of inhabitants in the country was reduced to what could easily be maintained by the revenue and stock which remained in it, and which had escaped either the tyranny or calamity which had destroyed the rest
12. Agabus, along with some other prophets, predicted a famine in
13. of famine victims, how to find solutions to great social
14. In Medieval times they were said to be the harbingers of war and famine
15. In the disorderly state of England under the Plantagenets, who governed it from about the middle of the twelfth till towards the end of the fifteenth century, one district might be in plenty, while another, at no great distance, by having its crop destroyed, either by some accident of the seasons, or by the incursion of some neighbouring baron, might be suffering all the horrors of a famine; and yet if the lands of some hostile lord were interposed between them, the one might not be able to give the least assistance to the other
16. Diminish the real opulence either of Holland or of the territory of Genoa, while the number of their inhabitants remains the same ; diminish their power of supplying themselves from distant countries; and the price of corn, instead of sinking with that diminution in the quantity of their silver, which must necessarily accompany this declension, either as its cause or as its effect, will rise to the price of a famine
17. blond-haired, rosy-cheeked, and very plump, at least before the famine
18. In those grievous times of famine, war, and death, this land had been notable in horror
19. death, mourning and famine
20. To dream of famine signifies a negative turn in business and in health
21. “Thousands died due to famine and lack of water,” she continued, “because your army had our city under siege
22. If, by not raising the price high enough, he discourages the consumption so little, that the supply of the season is likely to fall short of the consumption of the season, he not only loses a part of the profit which he might otherwise have made, but he exposes the people to suffer before the end of the season, instead of the hardships of a dearth, the dreadful horrors of a famine
23. Though, from excess of avarice, in the same manner, the inland corn merchant should sometimes raise the price of his corn somewhat higher than the scarcity of the season requires, yet all the inconveniencies which the people can suffer from this conduct, which effectually secures them from a famine in the end of the season, are inconsiderable, in comparison of what they might have been exposed to by a more liberal way of dealing in the beginning of it the corn merchant himself is likely to suffer the most by this excess of avarice; not only from the indignation which it generally excites against him, but, though he should escape the effects of this indignation, from the quantity of corn which it necessarily leaves upon his hands in the end of the season, and which, if the next season happens to prove favourable, he must always sell for a much lower price than he might otherwise have had
24. Whoever examines, with attention, the history of the dearths and famines which have afflicted any part of Europe during either the course of the present or that of the two preceding centuries, of several of which we have pretty exact accounts, will find, I believe, that a dearth never has arisen from any combination among the inland dealers in corn, nor from any other cause but a real scarcity, occasioned sometimes, perhaps, and in some particular places, by the waste of war, but in by far the greatest number of cases by the fault of the seasons; and that a famine has never arisen from any other cause but the violence of government attempting, by improper means, to remedy the inconveniencies of a dearth
25. In an extensive corn country, between all the different parts of which there is a free commerce and communication, the scarcity occasioned by the most unfavourable seasons can never be so great as to produce a famine ; and the scantiest crop, if managed with frugality and economy, will maintain, through the year, the same number of people that are commonly fed in a more affluent manner by one of moderate plenty
26. Even in such countries, however, the drought is, perhaps, scarce ever so universal as necessarily to occasion a famine, if the government would allow a free trade
27. Some improper regulations, some injudicious restraints, imposed by the servants of the East India Company upon the rice trade, contributed, perhaps, to turn that dearth into a famine
28. If, while his own country labours under a dearth, a neighbouring country should be afflicted with a famine, it might be his interest to carry corn to the latter country, in such quantities as might very much aggravate the calamities of the dearth
29. As among the different provinces of a great empire, the freedmn of the inland trade appears, both from reason and experience, not only the best palliative of a dearth, but the most effectual preventive of a famine; so would the freedom of the exportation and importation trade be among the different states into which a great continent was divided
30. The freedom of the corn trade is almost everywhere more or less restrained, and in many countries is confined by such absurd regulations, as frequently aggravate the unavoidable misfortune of a dearth into the dreadful calamity of a famine
31. How obstinately the city of Paris, upon that occasion, defended itself, what a dreadful famine it supported, rather than submit to the best, and afterwards the most beloved of all the French kings, is well known
32. A great famine swept over Aeresan (and the entire continent), but the Tryl family kept control by blaming the Prophets for their problems
33. “Many years later,” he continued, “a man, his wife and two sons went to Moab because there was a great famine in Judea
34. When famine struck, these same brothers journeyed to Egypt to buy grain
35. In Somalia, for example, humanitarian efforts spearheaded by the United Nations (UN) to provide famine relief to that starving country has resulted in inter-clan conflicts among tribal warlords who perceive such intervention (nation-building) as a threat to their territorial sovereignty
36. It is a gradual process precipitated by a variety of factors including economic disruptions, natural disasters, over-population, famine and disease
37. The total number of people impacted by famine or characterized as malnourished in the world is over one billion people
38. As famine spreads forth across the land, My heart is rent inside Me over the hardness of men’s hearts! As My face fills with the heat of My fury, My eyes are set ablaze with fire, over that which I see!
39. Thus says The Lord: I HAvE SENT FAMINE UPON THE LAND!
40. Even as in the day I caused a famine throughout the land of Israel
41. No, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of The Lord
42. In this time of famine, their hearts have hardened, And in them a heart like a beast has taken form
43. And such as are for the famine, to the famine;
44. Most estimates are 200,000 Timorese, about one third of the population, killed by war, famine, and disease
45. This includes battle deaths, disease, and famine caused as much by Confederate government incompetence and ideological blindness as the war
46. What I have observed, however, is a procession of global wars, famine, pestilence and disease, a decline in civility and (polite) manners, greed and rabid materialism, a diminution of moral and spiritual values, corporate and political corruption, consumer gluttony, disinterested parents and teachers, dysfunctional households, racism, steroids, offensive rap-music, pedophilia, teenage pregnancies and abortion, social unrest, selfishness and indifference, self-centeredness and conceit, the flaunting of immodest and indecent behavior and the glorification of stupidity in general
47. There was a famine in Georgia and elsewhere in many southern states
48. Famine did not come primarily from Union armies or even the war itself
49. Famine came mostly from Confederate government incompetence and Confederate army seizure of southern crops and animals
50. When the end of the beginning (The Jesus millennium) was at hand in the year AD 999, many thought the end of time was also at hand and didn’t waste their effort planting crops in the year AD 1000, so there was a great famine in the lands where this belief held sway