ration造句

a balanced diet [ration]

When you have something essential like energy that you can't ration just on price - you have to ration it in a more equitable way.

He does also accept that his ration coupons should be tradeable.

Some production resumed in April, but at much reduced levels as carmakers ration their parts inventories.

At the convalescent home, Aeron's daily ration of custard, requiring an egg, was regarded as royal fare.

At the very least, households should be entitled to a ration of essential goods at controlled prices.

As you know, I have my own ration of sugar, and I must not deprive you of yours [3].

Sarju and other paupers have been issued with “above the poverty line”, or APL, ration cards, entitling them to some subsidised kerosene.

Even without a hukou, migrants no longer need to present ration coupons to get food and clothing as long as they have the money.

If grains must be milled, the population will require an increased ration, because a portion must be given to the miller and because of loss during milling.

Hemingway had a public relations officer, a lieutenant as an aide, a cook, a driver, a photographer and a special liquor ration.

Officials at the World Food Programme said that a week after the earthquake, 200,000 people had received ration packs of high-nutrition biscuits.

People in the poorest fifth are the least likely to have any kind of ration card (the key to public handouts), whereas the richest fifth are the most likely to.

Elephants, which have no predators, must roam widely to get their daily ration of as much as 52 gallons (200 litres) of water and about 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of grass, leaves and twigs.

Conditions in the camps are no longer so critical, but there are too few toilets, and some have to queue five or six hours for their daily ration of water.

Straining to counter this, the BJP’s manifesto promises India’s poorest families a monthly ration of 35kg (77lbs) of rice at only two rupees (four cents) a kilo; Congress promises three rupees a kilo.

And sure enough, following on a gory description of the annihilation of a Eurasian army, with stupendous figures of killed and prisoners, came the announcement that, as from next week, the chocolate ration would be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty.