An estimated 10 million are facing starvation throughout the southern region of Africa due to famine and drought. |
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And in a place where the rivers are running dry, and the harvest has been ruined by drought, the specter of starvation is looming ever larger. |
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A post-mortem examination later found the cause of death was oxygen starvation of the brain due to strangulation. |
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It is because the abundant foodgrains can't be distributed properly that this starvation is happening. |
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Mortality during famines was rarely caused solely by starvation but from related diseases like dysentery, typhoid, and typhus. |
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In the bacteria Haemophilus influenza and Bacillus subtilis, starvation has been shown to increase competence for DNA uptake. |
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Until then, there will be a stockpile of foodgrains on the one side, and starvation deaths on the other. |
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His attempts to communize the growing and distribution of grain, as history grimly tells us, resulted in the starvation of millions of people. |
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It was an ancient practice to break a prisoner and force them to spill any knowledge they might have, starvation was a very powerful persuader. |
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Nor do people want to live in a system where their prosperity depends on the starvation of countless others. |
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Sulphur starvation leads to various phenotypically visible phenotypical alterations. |
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Malnutrition occurs prior to starvation, which is simply the long-term deprival of food and its adverse effects. |
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For decades Kalahandi has been synonymous with droughts, famines, starvation and poverty. |
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Settling near a hungry snail could be disastrous for a peanut worm, and landing too far from kelp would doom a sea urchin to starvation. |
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The fine animals that had endured the hellish voyage out from Britain died like flies from cold and sheer starvation. |
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A multinational behind glamorous fashion and perfume brands pays its factory workers starvation wages. |
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Reduced diet meant starvation and weakened resistance to illness and disease. |
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Forced labour and starvation rations ensure that prisoners are too weak to rebel. |
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Then they died of typhoid, malaria and liver ailments in addition to starvation. |
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The U.N. announces food airlifts into the west African nation, where more than a million people are at risk now of starvation. |
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I refrained from refilling the upstairs bowl for three days, hoping that night starvation would do the job. |
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The crew spotted another ship and flagged it down, but pleas for food fell on deaf ears, so that the crew was once again near starvation. |
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As for food, yo-yo diets, involving periods of near starvation, damage valuable muscle and are positively unhealthy. |
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They showed that rats fed on zein, the major protein of maize endosperm, died of protein starvation. |
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There was anarchy, chaos, gangs of armed and brutal thugs, panic, starvation and horror. |
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A period of starvation is common practice after gastrointestinal surgery during which an intestinal anastomosis has been formed. |
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These mutations cause larval lethality resulting from failed gut function and consequent starvation. |
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One result of this was occasional and localized food shortages so severe as to occasion hunger, starvation, and death. |
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The lives of most wild animals will be terminated by violence, by starvation, or by disease. |
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As is typical of passerine birds, nearly all mortality was the result of predation, and starvation was rare. |
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There are no mentions of mass starvation, torture, concentration camps or the excesses of the current regime. |
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Bird-lovers are hoping a rare bittern rescued from starvation by a gun dog will start a new life in the north west's biggest wetland. |
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Attacks may be induced by starvation and accompanied by paranoid psychosis. |
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Despite low supplies and starvation, the French army put up stiff resistance for two months. |
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In a set of three, stronger siblings often force the runt of a litter to die of starvation within its first year. |
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This unprecedented nesting failure is caused by starvation from the overnight disappearance of the small silvery sand eels the birds feed on. |
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They crawl up the beach, and in their starvation eat the leaves of the wild plants found growing there. |
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If there were a creative genius in us all, then we would all be sketching birds and dying of starvation. |
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The past few days of fighting starvation has helped deaden my taste buds and still my stomach somewhat now. |
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For one thing, most malnutrition and starvation come from a maldistribution of food, not an absolute shortage. |
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While the great powers were spending massive amounts of money on weapons and germ warfare, children were dying of starvation in many lands. |
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The men were weary with starvation and thirst, when they were eventually rescued by Solomon Islanders loyal to the Allies. |
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So while most of the city has been left to die of starvation, thirst, heat, disease and violence, a few people have some support. |
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Hundreds of thousands, millions of Hungarian people live day to day and die from starvation, thirst and poverty in our country. |
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India is self-sufficient in food production, but starvation is reported every year in this country of a billion-plus people. |
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There were at least three hundred souls in the town who had been on the verge of starvation. |
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Panicked images of starvation, destruction, and attacks by various ferocious wild animals clouded her vision. |
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Therefore, we examined the effect of starvation over time on the intestinal microbiota of Atlantic salmon. |
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I often find dead spiders in the house and wonder whether they've died from boredom or starvation. |
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Unemployed millhands and weavers were faced with the choice of the workhouse or starvation, and rioted. |
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The plan was temporarily shelved due to capital starvation and a shortage of technology, as well as a lack of talent to carry out the project. |
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At sea German U-boats were sinking so many merchant ships that Britain was close to starvation. |
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At the same time, millions of people are facing starvation because of food shortages. |
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She was trim and aware of her body, unafraid to diet to the point of starvation until she had matched her physical presence to her mind's ideal. |
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Indeed, the only food he could find, and which starvation caused him to digest, was mouldy crusts of bread covered in mouse droppings. |
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I've no doubt they were sincere and am sure they don't want mass starvation. |
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But now they could die of starvation or cold as temperatures drop to freezing at night. |
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If in two months stories of starvation and destitution continue to emerge out of Aceh, severe criticism will rain down on the government. |
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My mother, sister, and other brother had perished of malnutrition, starvation, and illness, and my father had been murdered. |
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Jackson was all angles and possessed a stark thinness suggestive of angry starvation, whereas his sister was sleek. |
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Death, suffering, starvation and suffering abound, not to mention the endless mantras and sloganeering. |
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Hundreds of thousands of people lack the basic necessities of life and are vulnerable to disease and possibly starvation. |
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Market stalls full of food in a nation where food shortages have left millions of people on the brink of starvation. |
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If no measures are put in place to condemn them, a sounder of bush-pigs can condemn a whole community to starvation. |
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Even though Ground wanted me to stay up, I knew I could not for long as the engines started cutting out rapidly from fuel starvation. |
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Homeless people on the edge of starvation do on average need that next dollar more than the fashionable elites choosing between vintage wines. |
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This can lead to habituation, which in the long run can cause other problems like starvation, public safety risks, accident or death. |
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The government was the chief agency that offered work for the poor and saved them from starvation. |
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Their remaining options were sleeping on the streets, prostitution, crime and starvation. |
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We are pretty sure that hundreds of thousands of people died of starvation during those years. |
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Most of them died of starvation, disease or brutality at the hands of the prison authorities. |
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Instead, the state tried to starve us out for our agricultural unorthodoxy, then they charged us with starvation. |
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In older books I found tales of desert caravans, raids by Bedouin clans, near starvation, and hard-won spiritual enlightenment. |
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Food might save hundreds of thousands of children from starvation, but an equal number might be carried off by hunger-related diseases. |
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If these wild dogs don't die of sheer starvation, he said, diseases such as parvovirus, heartworm, or intestinal parasites usually kill them. |
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As winter approaches, another group of Red Cross food distribution centres is inadvertently bombed in a country where four million people face starvation. |
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The Coast Guard say many citizens who survived the deadly winds and raging flood waters are now dying of heat and starvation because the rescue effort is just too slow. |
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Still scrounging for food and blighted by diseases like kala-azar and tuberculosis, many live as bonded labourers, and face acute food shortage and starvation every year. |
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It has taken months of work by aid agencies to effect a safety net that will minimise the number of deaths from the effects of starvation this winter. |
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That they persevered in the face of freezing cold, starvation and deprivation to win the struggle is one of the salient epic turning points of history. |
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Orphaned leverets may be left to die a lingering death from starvation. |
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This is contributing to the farming crisis, and deaths from starvation are likely to increase massively because farmers are too weak to plant or reap their crops. |
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Chronic starvation, overwork, disease, and freezing temperatures were as effective as the bullet, only slower and crueler. |
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Other research from the organisation highlights that millions of birds die each year because of cat predations, starvation and the weak and sickly condition of hatchlings. |
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Henry's father was a baker by trade but lost his job during the depression and he was forced to sell apples on the street corner to save the family from starvation. |
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Each of these studies found that exposure to starvation during the first trimester of pregnancy appeared to do the most harm. |
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Millions of years of evolution have equipped human bodies with the ability to adapt to starvation. |
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Kirsty's parents, Joanne and Martin, have desperately tried to stop her using pro-ana chatrooms where sufferers swap tips on starvation and exercise. |
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Videos show food lines bulging with tiny bodies pressed together so tightly you worry as much about suffocation as starvation. |
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First, of the population of tetraploid cells that enter stationary phase, both euploid and aneuploid members can be rescued by starvation in water. |
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Similar inundations were a regular occurrence back then, bringing the added risk of starvation to survivors due to the disruption caused to agriculture. |
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Their tragedy was bleakly mirrored by that of the Maya, who systematically exhausted their resource base, leading to death from starvation and thirst. |
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When the sea ice receded from the coast of Nunivak Island in Alaska, it left 11 muskoxen trapped on a small islet offshore, doomed to die of starvation or thirst. |
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They can be surrounded with food and water but die from starvation or thirst because they have such tiny throats that makes it impossible for them to swallow. |
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Crash dieting or starvation will only lead to weight gain down the line. |
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Desperate to get work and be accepted in fashion circles, Marie-Jose embarked on a three-month period of self-imposed starvation and self-deprivation. |
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Indeed, in the absence of amylase starch is not degraded, and anoxia-intolerant cereals such as wheat and barley suffer soon from sugar starvation, and eventually die. |
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In fact, some assert that killing whales is necessary to prevent world starvation. |
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The goldfish I'd won from the school carnival had died from starvation. |
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Death by starvation and dehydration is neither painless nor euphoric. |
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The key feature of the major eating disorders, anorexia and bulimia nervosa, is a phobic fear of fatness that leads to self-induced starvation or bingeing and purging. |
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Both engines quit due to fuel starvation when the aircraft touched down. |
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And food, far from being a source of energy and enjoyment, has become a battleground of guilt and shame and excess and starvation. |
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Annie's self-imposed starvation and Kelly's gluttony are quests for independence and signs of an oddly admirable discipline as much as they are psychological problems. |
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We started our campaign by saying that starvation, regardless of political or religious persuasion, is at its core a moral issue that concerns us all. |
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Many flee wars, but many more flee ruinous prices and starvation wages. |
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Abidjan remained tense and faced the possible grip of starvation. |
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Ricimer then quarreled with Anthemius, and besieged him in Rome, which surrendered in July 472 after more months of starvation. |
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However, Henry refused to allow this, and the expelled women and children died of starvation in the ditches surrounding the town. |
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Trapped mice eventually die from exposure, dehydration, starvation, suffocation, or predation, or are killed by people when the trap is checked. |
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Together, the Hunger Plan and Generalplan Ost would have led to the starvation of 80 million people in the Soviet Union. |
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There was also a disastrous famine in Bengal, which may have led to 3 million deaths through starvation, disease and exposure. |
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Lawrence, destroying food supplies, ammunition and other goods in an attempt to vanquish the French through starvation. |
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They recorded 21,770 total deaths from starvation in the previous decade, and 400,720 deaths from disease. |
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My father died of starvation in Ireland in the black 47, Maybe you've heard of it. |
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Its first years were extremely difficult, with very high death rates from disease and starvation, wars with local Indians, and little gold. |
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Underdeveloped or disintegrated ovaries, as well as decreased fecal pellet size, are a direct result of starvation in female copepods. |
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Rieber proposed a more elaborate scenario, which included the animals dying of thirst or starvation, and being concentrated by mudflows. |
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In May 2012, hundreds of Peruvian pelicans were reported to have perished in Peru from a combination of starvation and roundworm infestation. |
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This can be used to build up beaches suffering from beach starvation or erosion from longshore drift. |
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Prisoners reported brutal treatment by their guards, including beatings, starvation, and murder. |
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Having failed, he lived close to starvation rather than return to his family. |
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Summer floods can destroy nests or make fishing difficult, resulting in starvation of the brood. |
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Most died due to infectious diseases carried by Europeans, to which they had no immunity, and starvation. |
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However, a common response to desperate conditions and the threat of starvation was infanticide. |
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On every voyage a sailor would face the risk of falling overboard and drowning, starvation, disease, abuse, accidents in the rigging, and attack. |
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These nets restrict movement, causing starvation, laceration and infection, and, in animals that breathe air, suffocation. |
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About 36 million humans die every year from causes directly or indirectly related to starvation. |
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On the march back his army was harassed by Cossacks, and suffered disease and starvation. |
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The charges for which they were executed were, among others, genocide by starvation. |
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On the return trip, Scott and his four companions all died of starvation and extreme cold. |
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Cats, while seen as more acceptable than dogs, are viewed as pests and frequently die of starvation or illness. |
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Conditions were horrendous and many men died due to disease, starvation and ill treatment by the Japanese. |
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Polar bears injured in fights or accidents may either die from their injuries or become unable to hunt effectively, leading to starvation. |
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The key danger posed by climate change is malnutrition or starvation due to habitat loss. |
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The others died of fever or starvation, or were speared by hostile aborigines. |
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During the Soviets' 1930s collectivisation campaign, many Cossacks were killed or died of starvation, as did the kulaks. |
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Widespread hunger led to the mass starvation of about two million Russians, a third of the population. |
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Facing starvation and homeless for the winter, the Iroquois fled to the Niagara Falls area and to Canada, mostly to what became Ontario. |
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Crop failures no longer resulted in starvation in areas connected to large markets through transport infrastructure. |
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With a low population, agricultural productivity was higher and families did not face starvation as in established industrialised countries. |
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Regeneration does not restore hit points lost from starvation, thirst, or suffocation. |
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In humans, prolonged starvation can cause permanent organ damage and eventually, death. |
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The basic cause of starvation is an imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure. |
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The energy deficiency inherent in starvation causes fatigue and renders the victim more apathetic over time. |
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Victims of starvation are often too weak to sense thirst, and therefore become dehydrated. |
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Vitamin deficiency is also a common result of starvation, often leading to anemia, beriberi, pellagra, and scurvy. |
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Since much of human muscle mass is protein, this phenomenon is responsible for the wasting away of muscle mass seen in starvation. |
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The Rome Declaration on World Food Security outlines several policies aimed at increasing food security and, consequently, preventing starvation. |
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Many organizations have been highly effective at reducing starvation in different regions. |
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According to legend they died of starvation a few weeks later, since their brother had thrown the prison key in the castle moat. |
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Ten prisoners had been condemned to death by starvation in the wake of a successful escape from the camp. |
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Despite the generous supply and quality of food, some prisoners died of starvation after gambling away their rations. |
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The hard hearted villains cooped the cowboy up in a barrel and rolled him out on the prairie to die of thirst and starvation. |
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Soon the beauty of the rainforest will turn into the starvation of humans and heat of the desert. |
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Though life raft provides some benefits, survivors still have to fight with starvation and dehydration. |
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Fagan and Odell found that early hatching preying mantids also faced starvation due to insufficient alternative prey and were avid cannibals. |
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We witnessed scenes on our TV screens of mass starvation in the Darfur region of war-torn Sudan. |
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The country has become bankrupt under Mugabe, 79, and only aid has prevented mass starvation. |
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In India there is not a problem with mass starvation, but there is a problem with mass under-education. |
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Compensatory feeding capacity of 2 brachyuran crabs, Tanner and Dungeness, after starvation periods like those encountered in pots. |
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Biochemical changes during reproduction and starvation in the sipunculid worm Phascolosoma agassizii. |
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Reports of about 100 starvation deaths since January 2014 in the tea gardens in the Dooars, North Bengal appeared in newspapers. |
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The book is aimed at young readers and is a moving tale of a New Forest pony who is close to starvation when rescued by a sanctuary,'' she said. |
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Those not killed in the gas chambers died of starvation, individual executions, medical experiments, forced labor and exposure. |
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She is a self-proclaimed Pan-Africanist, who has been raising awareness about the millions of people dying of starvation in Somalia. |
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Biochemical composition during growth and starvation of early larval stages of cultured spiny lobster phyllosoma. |
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A 24-year guerrilla war followed, in which 200,000 East Timorese died-from bombings, killings, and forced starvation. |
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The regulation of endogeneous energy stores during starvation and refeeding in the somatic tissues of the golden perch. |
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Studies on the body biochemical composition during starvation of crustaceans yield information that can be useful for the understanding of their ecophysiology. |
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Food relief experts warn that July is also the month prefamine conditions reported throughout North Korea are likely to escalate into mass starvation. |
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When you read stories of mass starvation, numbers can lose their impact, whereas an individual allows you to focus on somebody you can directly relate to. |
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Poor weather led to a series of poor harvests and starvation. |
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Thus, after periods of starvation, the loss of body protein affects the function of important organs, and death results, even if there are still fat reserves left unused. |
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The term inanition refers to the symptoms and effects of starvation. |
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The Malthusian trap or population trap is a condition whereby excess population would stop growing due to shortage of food supply leading to starvation. |
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The council was held in response to a year in which the harvests in Sri Lanka were particularly poor and many Buddhist monks subsequently died of starvation. |
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There were no reports of starvation, but malnutrition was widespread. |
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Generally, the Goths were abused by the Romans, who began forcing the now starving Goths to trade away their children so as to stave off starvation. |
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The Communist leadership perceived famine as a means of class struggle and used starvation as a punishment tool to force peasants into collective farms. |
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During the occupation the population suffered considerable hardship due to repression and starvation, to which the population reacted by creating a mass resistance movement. |
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Bulky plastic debris may become permanently lodged in the digestive tracts of these animals, blocking the passage of food and causing death through starvation or infection. |
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Prisoners in these subcamps were dying from starvation, untreated disease and summary executions by the tens of thousands already since the beginning of war. |
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Many of the prisoners died in the concentration camps due to deliberate maltreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork, or they were executed as unfit for labor. |
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The ongoing clearance policy resulted in starvation, deaths, and a secondary clearance, when families either migrated voluntarily or were forcibly evicted. |
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British troops stationed in America were often on the verge of starvation. |
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The colonists faced high rates of death due to many reasons, including disease, starvation, inefficient resupply, conflict with Indians, and attacks by rival European powers. |
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The river Seine froze that winter, which made it impossible for ships to bring food and coal to Paris, leading to widespread starvation and deaths from the cold in that city. |
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Of the nutritional deficiency diseases, the most commonly experienced were starvation and marasmus, as well as a condition at the time called dropsy. |
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It is not known exactly how many people died during the period of the famine, although it is believed that more died from disease than from starvation. |
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The situation soon escalated into the General Strike, but the Trade Union Congress, ostensibly worried about reports of starvation in the pit villages, called the strike off. |
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Bobby Sands, the first of the strikers, was elected as a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone a few weeks before he died of starvation. |
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Britain was safe from starvation, while German industrial output fell and the United States joined the war far earlier than Germany had anticipated. |
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He began large scale famine relief, reduced taxes, and overcame bureaucratic obstacles in an effort to reduce both starvation and widespread social unrest. |
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There was considerable hunger and privation during the five years of German occupation, particularly in the final months when the population was close to starvation. |
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The theodicy of Paley and Thomas Malthus vindicated evils such as starvation as a result of a benevolent creator's laws, which had an overall good effect. |
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However, brutal floggings, increased terms of katorga, starvation diets, permanent chaining to a wheelbarrow and other fearsome sanctions failed to staunch the flow. |
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Following the gales it is reckoned that 5,000 men died, by drowning, starvation and slaughter at the hands of English forces after they were driven ashore in Ireland. |
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More than one million people died from starvation and disease, while an additional two million people emigrated, mostly to the United States and Canada. |
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Practiced on an international scale, eugenocide will do much to prevent lingering, tortuous death by starvation, occasioned so often by overbrowse in underdeveloped nations. |
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