Starvation Sentence Examples

Many of them fell into the slough of pauperism, and were saved from starvation by public doles.

He expected to die from starvation.

Hannibal reduced it in 216 by starvation, and destroyed and plundered the town.

He is said to have died of voluntary starvation, being threatened with total blindness.

The average number of seals killed annually is about 33,000.1 The 1 Owing to representations of the Swedish government in 1874 as to the killing of seals at breeding time on the east coast of Greenland, and the consequent loss of young seals left to die of starvation, the Seal Fisheries Act 1875 was passed in England to provide for the establishment of a close time for seal fishery in the seas in question.

Despite unparalleled importations of grain by sea and rail, despite the most strenuous exertions of the government, which incurred a total expenditure on this account of 11 millions sterling, the loss of life from actual starvation and its attendant train of diseases was lamentable.

General attacks of leaf-diseases invariably lead to starvation and necrosis of twigs, and similarly with the ravages of caterpillars and other insects.

The Spaniards were, however, annihilated by Lord Grey in 1580, and after nearly two years of wandering in Irish woods and bogs Sanders died of cold and starvation in the spring of 1581.

Three ships were sent out under letters of marque commanded by David, Lewis and Thomas Kirke, and Quebec, already on the verge of starvation, was compelled to surrender (1629).

Verses II, 19 (dearth of food), 20 (danger in the field, starvation in the house) agree curiously with Neh.

He fed them on the blood taken from their own veins daily, depriving them of all other food, and he found that the fatal cooling incident to starvation was thus postponed, and existence prolonged.

At last both Wills and Burke died of starvation.

The cause of the failure was discovered to be fuel starvation.

This was unquestionably the greatest of the voyages which followed from the impulse of Prince Henry, and it was rendered possible only by the magnificent courage of the commander in spite of rebellion, mutiny and starvation.

During that time the earth bore no fruit, and the inhabitants of the world were threatened with starvation.

Hundreds of thousands were slaughtered; hundreds of thousands set marching for Syria and Mesopotamia perished on the way by hardship, disease, starvation; those who escaped became fugitives; from first to last at least three-quarters of a million Armenians perished in Asia Minor in a population of less than two millions.

Idleness, drunkenness, vicious intercourse, sickness, starvation, squalor, cruelty, chains, awful oppression and everywhere culpable neglect - in these words may be summed up the state of the gaols at the time of Howard's visitation.

During a great famine which occurred in 1902 about 2,500,000 persons in the province died of starvation.

The condition of the itinerant labourers (peons) was still worse, the wages paid them being hardly sufficient to keep them from starvation.

Later, Sadik Khan, having again incurred the royal displeasure, was seized, confined and mercilessly bricked up in his dungeon to die of starvation.

Under the American regime seal fishing off the Aleutians save by the natives has never been legal, but the depletion of the Pribilof herd, the almost complete extinction of the sea otter, and the rapid decrease of the foxes and other fur animals, have threatened the Aleuts (as the natives are commonly called) with starvation.

In order to obtain food, they venture naked in small canoes into the treacherous seas; their life is a constant battle with starvation and a rude climate, and their character has become rude and low in consequence.

Under the present system the industrial chief exploits the proletariat, the members of which, though nominally free, must accept his terms under pain of starvation.

Examples of Ixodes vicinis have been kept for two years and three months without feeding, and specimens of Argas persicus were still alive after four years' starvation.

In the end of 1408 Prince Henry captured this place, and six weeks later Harlech, the greatest stronghold of the rebels, where Sir Edmund Mortimer, Owens son-in-law and most trusted captain, held out till he died of starvation.

The famine, emigration and the new poor law nearly got rid of starvation, but the people never became frankly loyal, feeling that they owed more to their own importunity and to their own misfortunes than to the wisdom of their rulers.

Drink children, you must be near starvation, animal blood is no way to live.

The response to the addition of nutrient broth, however, declined with the length of the starvation period.

What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equaled if not exceeded in foulness by the soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms.

The natural death of such a wild animal will occur by starvation, disease or injury, none of which can be considered humane.

In order to avoid anoxia (oxygen starvation ), it is vitally important that the pond is adequately oxygenated at all times.

The detainees were fed starvation rations once a day, with little time to eat.

All these people are paupers, driven from their country by starvation in the literal sense of the word.

With people facing absolute starvation, they decided to close the soup kitchens they had opened two years earlier.

To prevent fuel starvation at high rpm it is advisable to fit a fast flow fuel tap or have yours modified.

Refusing food and shelter, and forcing people to suffer starvation is as bad as killing people with bullets in a dictator's regime.

However, to avoid writer starvation, the Solaris threads package tends to favor writers over readers.

A regional famine early warning unit reports that up to 3.3 million need food relief with 380,000 facing imminent starvation.

The World Food Program is warning of imminent danger of mass starvation.

What is needed is secure, sustained access on the ground if widespread starvation is to be avoided.

It was immediately faced with the acute danger of actual starvation.

Living as one of the poor, London witnessed the squalor, degradation and slow starvation of the area.

Whatever the cause, some brain cells die from oxygen starvation.

Without them, there will be a time when nothing will stand between humanity and mass starvation.

They also often lack proper nutrition, and many even face starvation.

They have no money for their transportation, for they are receiving starvation wages or no wages, at all.

He died of starvation in Tierra del Fuego.

General atrophy or emaciation is brought about by the tissues being entirely or partially deprived of nutriment, as in starvation, or in malignant, tubercular, and other diseases of the alimentary system which interfere with the proper ingestion, digestion or absorption of food material.

The changes are also common in pernicious anaemia, advanced chlorosis, cachexias, and in the later stages of starvation.

Grant, as he pushed Pemberton before him to Granada, lengthened day by day his line of communication, and when Van Dorn, ever enterprising, raided the great Federal depot of Holly Springs the game was up. Grant retired hastily, for starvation was imminent, and Pemberton, thus freed, turned upon Sherman, and inflicted a severe defeat on that general at Chickasaw Bayou near Vicksburg (December 29).

Reported reverses to the enemy are proclaimed as crushing defeats, Germany is represented as within measurable distance of starvation, bankruptcy and revolution, and only yesterday a poster was issued in London, declaring that half the Hungarian army had been annihilated.

Incarceration was no doubt practised by irresponsible masters, regardless of personal rights, callous to the sufferings of their victims, to which death by starvation or horrible neglect was a welcome relief.

Upon a further demand, Motazz, having failed to procure money from his mother Qabiha, who was enormously rich, was seized upon and tortured, and died of starvation in prison (Shaaban 255, July 868).

Starvation itself (see also Hunger And Thirst) is of the nature of a disease which may be prevented by diet; nevertheless there are connected with it a few peculiarities of scientific and practical interest.

From 200,000 to 300,000 perished of starvation or of fever caused by insufficient food.

Refusing food and shelter, and forcing people to suffer starvation is as bad as killing people with bullets in a dictator 's regime.

There certainly were some who wanted to see the disappearance of the Jewish population through deliberate starvation.

Of course, her starvation diet could cause it too.

Each time you go on a diet, your protective mechanism goes a little deeper into the starvation mode.

Reports of starvation deaths are coming in from all over the country.

What worries even those who support the war is the humanitarian need for food to stave off starvation throughout the winter.

As the Bill stands doctors could withdraw food and fluid (tubal feeding) from patients thus causing death by dehydration and starvation.

Vanquishing world child hunger and starvation might only be a chimera.

Cats are instinctively afraid of starvation.

Some cats will eat any and all of the food that is readily available in an attempt to ward off a future chance of starvation.

This disrupts global food production and increases starvation rates, especially in developing countries.

When the body does not receive food for long enough, it goes into starvation mode.

In the meantime, your dog's tummy may have shrunk from starvation, and this could play a role in his reluctance to eat.

Starvation, more exercise and the use of laxatives caused her to collapse on an elevator in route to meet with a top photographer.

The most frequent causes of death associated with anorexia are starvation, electrolyte imbalance, heart failure, and suicide.

However, blood also carries life-sustaining oxygen to the skin and other tissues, and narrowed vessels result in oxygen starvation.

People with anorexia nervosa (excessive dieting to the point of starvation) also may have central hypogonadism.

French jeweler Henri LeBeauold dreamt of a period of starvation and thirst, followed by a great feast.

Celiac patients with normal blood nutrient levels may also present neurological symptoms because slow cellular starvation is only one element of the disease.

Mitochondrial disorder can be aggravated by starvation, illness and extreme environmental conditions.

But repeated or sustained use could cause serious harm as the body is plunged into and out of starvation rations, bouncing weight up and down like any other yo-yo diet, and straining the body's systems to run on far too little fuel.

By eating this frequently, Cruise says, you keep the body from going into starvation mode, in which it retains fat and burns muscle.

This is due to the fact that bodies can go into "starvation" mode due to the loss of calories and fat, and therefore store all extra calories not burned.

It is important to know how to go about it, however, since fasting may slip into starvation territory before long -- which is a distinctly negative development.

Unfortunately, since your body will believe it's in a state of acute starvation, it won't be fat you're losing.

Furthermore, the South Beach diet is fairly humane in that it does not advocate starvation unlike other, similarly named and marketed diet scams.

Without eating a sufficient quantity of calories on a regular basis, the body will go into starvation mode.

While the number of calories your body needs varies, based on your weight, age and genetic make-up, cutting calories too drastically (experts report below 1,000 calories) can shift your body into starvation mode.

The good news is that starvation mode does not typically result from a few days of drastic calorie cutting.

In fact, fat is such a good source of energy humans and other animals are equipped with a natural affinity for the substance to prevent malnutrition or starvation.

Some professionals suggest following an every-other-day fast to prevent bodily starvation and many of the harmful symptoms listed above.

A low calorie diet of less than about 1200 calories can have negative health consequences, but a plan that falls at or below about 700 calories are considered near starvation diets that can endanger the individual following it.

Some celebrities will employ laxatives or severe willpower leading to starvation in order to stave off pounds.

That doesn't mean starvation; in fact, dieting shouldn't involve actual hunger since that may actually turn out to be outright counter-productive.

Conversely, you might be eating too few calories, so your body has decided to hold on to its mass in order to ward off starvation.

The doctrine that "the starvation of a nation cannot be the lawful purpose of a combination" was announced, and Judge Taft said further that "if there is any power in the army of the United States to run those trains, the trains will be run."

Unable to dislodge the Illinois, the Pottawattomies cut off their escape and let them die of starvation.

Not only the workmen and the large class of idlers attracted to Paris by the system, but rentiers and government officials, whose incomes were paid in assignats on a scale arbitrarily fixed by the government, saw themselves threatened with actual starvation.

He traces various local dropsies to the starvation from which the tissues are suffering, the liquid accumulating in excess in accordance with the demand for more nourishment.

In September 1825 Ibrahim, at the order of the sultan, had joined Reshid before the town; piecemeal the outlying forts and defences now fell, until the garrison, reduced by starvation and disease, determined to hazard all on a final sortie.

In 1808 a large body of Frenchmen were landed here by their Spanish captors, and allowed almost to perish of starvation.

Otto died shortly after his election, when Boniface VII., on the strength of the popular feeling against the new pope, returned from Constantinople and placed John in prison, where he died either by starvation or poison.

They can endure exposure without much apparent inconvenience; and though the nature of the food they use is such that they cannot stand absolute privation for any considerable length of time, they can exist for long periods on starvation rations, if eked out with weak soup or buttered tea, which is drunk at frequent intervals.

Partial starvation will sometimes effect this; hence the grafting of freegrowing fruit trees upon dwarfing stocks, as before alluded to, and also the " ringing " or girdling of fruit trees, i.e.

The garrison had been reduced to starvation; and the arrival of twen.ty British soldiers, with orders to return at once, Failure of could not have affected the situation.

They kept him, first in the castle of St Andrews, and then at Falkland, where he perished; some said of dysentery, others, of starvation.

Later English writers allege that he died of starvation in the mountains; but Welsh legend represents him as spending a peaceful old age with his sons-in-law at Ewyas and Monington in Herefordshire, till his death and burial at the latter place.

Dietaries differed, here too ample, there meagre to starvation.

At the end of some months, however, he was calumniously accused of conspiracy, and the caliph, seizing the opportunity of ridding himself of a possible rival, threw him into prison, where he died, according to the majority of the historians, of starvation.

Local militia, protecting none who refused to join in the common defence, and all serving " not as soldiers but as farmers mutually pledged to protect each other from the depredations of outlaws who infest the state," strove to secure such public order as was necessary to the gathering of crops, so as "to prevent the starvation of the citizens" (governor's circular, 1865).

On jelly-fishes are to be found species of Hyperia and their kindred, so fat and wholesome that they have been commended to shipwrecked men in open boats as an easily procurable resource against starvation.

Here he stood upon the defensive until the invaders should be defeated by starvation.

This involved making the poor wear prison uniforms and only providing enough food to avoid starvation.

They have faced early death from illness and starvation caused by war.

This diet mimics starvation, which results in the body burning fats rather than carbohydrates for energy.

In fact, starvation is proven to be quite counterproductive if your goal is to lose the right kind of pounds.

When the growth is at the cardiac end of the stomach, blocking the gullet and causing slow starvation, the abdomen may advisedly be opened, and, the stomach having been fixed to the surface-wound, a permanent opening may be arranged for the introduction of an adequate amount of food.

How severely strict medieval abstinence was may be gauged from the fact that armies and garrisons were sometimes, in default of dispensations, as in the case of the siege of Orleans in 1429, reduced to starvation for want of Lenten food, though in full possession of meat and other supplies.

The peasantry are impoverished, and in many parts live on the verge of starvation for the greater part of the year.

The latter measure produced extreme suffering and much starvation (as the reconcentrados were largely thrown upon the charity of the beggared communities in which they were huddled).

To the poor, Persians are unostentatiously generous; most of the rich have regular pensioners, old servants, or poor relations who live on their bounty; and though there are no workhouses, there are in ordinary times no deaths from starvation; and charity, though not organized, is general..

The dietaries already mentioned, the whey cure, the grape cure, the meat cure and the vegetarian cure, are all more or less systems of starvation, one or other article of ordinary diet being either reduced to a minimum or omitted altogether.

The destruction of the wild caribou has threatened to expose the Indians to wholesale starvation, hence the effort which the United States government has made to stock the country with domestic reindeer from Siberia.

It is certain that the share per man was small, and that many of the buccaneers died of starvation while trying to return to Jamaica.

Provisions were scarce and dear, communication with the rest of the world was infrequent, and in 1807 the community was threatened with starvation, and flour was sold at £ 200 per ton.

Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbour, had been besieged by the secessionists since January; and, it being now on the point of surrender through starvation, Lincoln sent the besiegers official notice on the 8th of April that a fleet was on its way to carry provisions to the fort, but that he would not attempt to reinforce it unless this effort were resisted.

During the voyage home Greene and several others were killed in a fight with the Eskimo, while others again died of starvation, and the feeble remnant which reached England in September were thrown into prison.

The poor squatted where they could, receiving starvation wages, and paying exorbitant rents for their cabins, partly with their own labour.

Under the head of malformations we place cases of atrophy of parts or general dwarfing, due to starvation, the attacks of Fungi or minute insects, the presence of unsuitable food-materials and so on, as well as cases of transformation of stamens into petals, carpels into leaves, and so forth.

In the same address he called attention to the conditions of the world's food supply, urging that with the low yield at present realized per acre the supply of wheat would within a comparatively short time cease to be equal to the demand caused by increasing population, and that since nitrogenous manures are essential for an increase in the yield, the hope of averting starvation, as regards those races for whom wheat is a staple food, depended on the ability of the chemist to find an artificial method for fixing the nitrogen of the air.

The first step is to open test works; and directly they show the necessity, regular relief works are established, in which the people may earn enough to keep them from starvation, until the time comes to sow the next crop.

Finding himself in danger of starvation, even his food and drink being changed by his touch, Midas entreated Dionysus to take back the gift.

The most destructive droughts recorded are those of 1711, 172 3, 1777-1778, 1790, 1825, 1844-1845, and 1877-1878, the last-mentioned destroying nearly all the live-stock in the state, and causing the death through starvation and pestilence of nearly half-a-million people, or over half the population.

This wood is in great part already dead substance, but the mycelium gradually invades the vessels occupied with the transmission of water up the trunk, cuts off the current, and so kills the tree; in other cases such Fungi attack the roots, and so induce rot and starvation of oxygen, resulting in fouling.

Wagner's retouching of Gluck's Iphigenie en Aulide and his edition of Palestrina's Stabat Mater demand mention as important services to music, by no means to be classified (as in some catalogues) with the hack-work with which he kept off starvation in Paris.

It is said to be increased in saccharine diabetes and to be greatly diminished in starvation and wasting diseases.

Owing to the anarchy which prevailed during the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries, facilities of communication disappeared almost entirely, even for men of rank a long journey involved danger of starvation or fatal exposure, and the pains and perils of travel became a household word among the people.

It has been experimentally shown that conditions such as fatigue, starvation, exposure to cold, &c., lower the general resisting powers and increase the susceptibility to bacterial infection.

And if that were not enough, he killed by starvation in the name of a program called—I kid you not—"The Super Great Leap Forward."

That army, like a herd of cattle run wild and trampling underfoot the provender which might have saved it from starvation, disintegrated and perished with each additional day it remained in Moscow.

The position was then desperate, wholesale desertion and starvation had decimated the garrison, and three weeks later Ali Riza Pasha, the Turkish commander, was compelled to surrender.