On numerous occasions, Confederate soldiers were forced to make do with scanty or inadequate rations, or to forage amongst their own countrymen for the necessities of life.

The Sioux resented the failure of the government to fulfill treaty obligations; they were starving due to inadequate rations and annuities at the reservations.

But the troops were already fatigued by an unremitting nine days' marching on inadequate rations, and the communications and organization were so poor that no supplies could be brought up to them.

Food was in short supply in the conquered areas of the Soviet Union and Poland, with rations inadequate to meet nutritional needs.

All the funds raised from the farm went to the Board, which 'rewarded' workers by doling out inadequate and unhealthy rations.

After being freed in 1941, an orderly to a French admiral wrote that that life there was boring but "not particularly onerous", with "adequate by European prison standards" sanitation, inadequate but regular rations, and cigarettes for purchase.

When I was serving under him in the Global Civil War, a problem came up about inadequate rations for the troops.

With winter setting in, Greely and his men were forced to winter at Cape Sabine with inadequate rations and little fuel.

The combination of air attacks, a long march through a desert, inadequate rations, as well as dysentery and malaria had shattered the morale of Ras Desta's army.

When they arrived at the reservation in present-day Oklahoma, conditions were very difficult: inadequate rations, no buffalo left alive near the reservation, and malaria.