world hunger
collocation in Englishmeaningsofworldandhunger
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world
noun
uk/wɜːld/us/wɝːld/
the earth and all the people, places, and things ...
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hunger
noun
uk/ˈhʌŋ.ɡər/us/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɚ/
the feeling you have when you need ...
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(Definition ofworldandhungerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofworld hunger
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Endingworldhunger: the promise of biotechnology and the threat of antiscience zealotry.
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Sitting alongside this, the suburbanised concerns of popular communitarianism seem far removed fromworldhunger, infant mortality and third world debt.
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Commitments to bringing about an end would include commitments to endingworldhunger, preserving the redwoods, or restoring an antique dining set to its original condition.
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And, with proper safeguards, biotechnology has the potential to help mankind defeatworldhungerand disease.
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But it is in many ways going to challenge us in trying to eradicateworldhungerby 2015.
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Ten years ago they were also saying thatworldhungermust be made a thing of the past.
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At the bottom of it all there is not the slightest doubt that there isworldhunger.
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We are faced with the problem of aworldhungerfor textiles which is almost unlimited.
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The best way to deal withworldhungeris to increase agricultural production in the developing countries to enable them to attain food self-reliance.
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There is no greater challenge in our time than the problem ofworldhungerand world poverty.
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Another point at which interest and concern in this country could be kindled is the awareness ofworldhunger.
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Confronted with world anarchy,worldhunger, war and the deadly arms race.
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The underlying premise of all these events has been the realisation that we are failing in the fight againstworldhunger.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
This is what created the financial crisis, this is what is creating the environmental crisis and this is what is causingworldhungerto increase.
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If this raised twice as much—£160 million—what could that achieve in solvingworldhunger?
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It is admirable that so many students today feel strongly about the concept of human dignity—aboutworldhunger, world peace and racial justice.
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Apparently, it would provide a mere £31 million to combatworldhunger.
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Perhaps here this afternoon we can all find full agreement in discussing a programme to combatworldhunger.
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Another 190,000 dollars are going forworldhungerpurposes.
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