"failure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- China also provides much of the food that keeps North Koreans alive after repeated harvest failures.
- The harvest failures were devastating for the northern Italian economy.
- In conditions of harvest failure and increased poverty, lice are likely to increase.
- For these reasons it is not prone to the risk of total harvest failure even in low and uncertain rainfall regions.
- The consequences of the 1848 revolution caused harvest failures and inflation, and the city population diminished by a large emigration.
- Local villagers, impoverished after a series of harvest failures, were paid a shilling per day to tunnel underground to mine chalk.
- Imported corn staved off the worst effects of harvest failure and some communities appear to have escaped altogether.
- In both cases, the impact of harvest failure was exacerbated by wartime demands on the food supply.
- Finally, the first response of any adult faced with a harvest failure is to tighten her belt.
- But recurrent harvest failures, the most notorious of which led to devastating famine in 1891, imposed severe hardship on many.
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