1.   North Korea faces severe food shortages.

2.   When there is a severe food shortage, the first to suffer are the larger animals.

3.   Severe food shortages have led to rioting against the military government.

4.   International relief organizations had warned in early October that large areas of Sudan, Ethiopia and northern Somalia faced severe food shortages.

5.   Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder, chiefly in young women, characterized by an obsession with weight loss and usually involving severe food deprivation.

6.   But others were more bitter about Castro, saying he has led the country into severe food shortages, declining medical care and routine fuel shortages.

7.   Even before the threat of American retaliation, Afghanistan faced severe food shortages.

8.   Inefficient agriculture and devastating floods have created severe food shortages.

9.   It could not have been easy for North Korea to acknowledge recently that it is enduring a severe food shortage and needs outside help.

10.   It was slaughtered more than a year ago as the Serbian forces who besieged this city for nearly four years tightened their grip and caused severe food shortages.