1.   All this made for contentment, and the greater part of the century was a time of content, though a bad harvest invariably meant serious food riots.

2.   A bad harvest or unexplained death may mean the gods are angry, so Shinto priests are often summoned to conduct purification rituals.

3.   By turning so much of her life into a photo op, she reaped the bad harvest of complicity with the media.

4.   Exacerbated by flooding, the bad harvests are mostly the result of soil erosion, poor use of soil, lack of pesticides and other failing farm practices.

5.   He has concluded that mankind can eliminate crime, civil war, bad harvests, cancer, and earthquakes by building enough pyramids.

6.   Outdated farm equipment, the result of a lack of investment, as well as inadequate supplies of fertilizer and deficient storage have also contributed to the bad harvest.

7.   The farmers contend that the agency should spend more money helping them during bad harvests instead of aiding hotel ventures.

8.   The problem is essentially a bad harvest, he said.

9.   With good harvests or bad harvests, the effect on consumers is negligible.

10.   Pramode blamed drought conditions produced by the El Nino weather phenomenon for the bad harvest.