bad crops

Even a season of bad crops could touch it off.

The situation worsened by the bad crops in 1812.

An empty pail is a sign of famine, or bad crops.

However, due to the poor soil and continuously bad crops, they found continuous trouble living there.

If the ceremony was omitted, the following year would bring bad crops of hay and corn.

Several years of bad crops and plagues provoked the popular revolt.

Good crops or bad crops, it didn't make any difference.

Masters says the markets are now heavily distorted by investment banks: "Let's say news comes about bad crops and rain somewhere.

Unfortunately, Reidgotaland was struck with bad crops and starvation.

In the appeal he requested the shogun to help ease the peasants' burden of heavy taxes and bad crops.

Huracán was responsible for storms, earthquakes and bad crops.

Working as a farmer, he lost most of his money within fifteen years, owing to bad crops, and heavy partying and betting.

About 1760 a combination of a plague epidemic, bad crops, and earthquakes drove many Cypriots to emigrate.

"Bad weather and bad crops.

Enraged, he starts on a wild rampage of plague, killing cattle and many other creatures, and bringing bad crops.

External problems, such as the flood of Mexico City in 1629, bad crops, or slow trading trends, affected institutions that had varied economic interests.

In 1986, heavy rains kept the bees from pollinating the almond trees, resulting in one of the worst crops in a decade.

"Bad times--bad crops," said Uncle Joe, lifting his shoulders.

The mountainous inland Young found 'all poor and miserable'; bad crops, bad fallows, and wretched towns.

The luck of the king is the luck of the land, and Domalde's rule was marked by bad crops and starvation.

Besides all this they say he makes and sends them their diseases, bad weather and bad crops, and that he makes and supports witches.

This was already heavily indebted by the Seven Years' War, then bad crops and rash speculations forced sale and the family moved back to Solingen.

Bad crops, want. . . . Cattle plague continually, diseases of all sorts. . . . We are crushed by poverty."

Tradition says that every seven years Mari goes from Anboto to Oiz, and the weather and the good or bad crops depend on where she is.

The exports run a small scale until the 1860s, when bad crops in Europe, and lower prices due to cheap railroads and ocean transport, opened the European markets.