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rationed

adjective as in distributed

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States have made attempts to replace those meals by sending rations or cash to families, albeit with varying degrees of success.

So there’s the history of these really tightly controlled agricultural policies, as well as rations on food purchases, that continues into the early 1980s.

The World Food Program, for all its plaudits, needs to be part of that kind of answer—not just an org chart plugging hungry mouths with emergency rations, but a force that helps rebalance this off-kilter system.

You don’t have to rely on weird survival rations to make it through tough times.

At one point, she wrote, she lived on tiny squares of chocolate and self-rationed corn flakes.

If rationed carefully and traveling at maximum speed, I might even cover a good amount of nearby land.

Food was strictly rationed and curfews deadened the late nights.

Recently she made headlines by attacking a provision in Obama's stimulus plan that she said would lead to rationed health care.

During the 1930s and up until the end of World War II, many families subsisted on bread and very little meat (sometimes rationed).

Rasyunan ang túbig sa tinghuwaw, Water is rationed during droughts.

When his carefully rationed sleep periods eventually came around, he was more than ready for them, and slept like a log.

After an exciting and tiring day we reach a village and having seen the crews rationed, pitch our tents.

Well, she's rationed us—that's one good thing—and father really doesn't guess!

Luckily he cared nothing at all about food—though he refused to be rationed by a despotic Government.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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