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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














































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