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An estimated 10 million are facing starvation throughout the southern region of Africa due to famine and drought.
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.
A post-mortem examination later found the cause of death was oxygen starvation of the brain due to strangulation.
It is because the abundant foodgrains can't be distributed properly that this starvation is happening.
Mortality during famines was rarely caused solely by starvation but from related diseases like dysentery, typhoid, and typhus.
In the bacteria Haemophilus influenza and Bacillus subtilis, starvation has been shown to increase competence for DNA uptake.
Until then, there will be a stockpile of foodgrains on the one side, and starvation deaths on the other.
His attempts to communize the growing and distribution of grain, as history grimly tells us, resulted in the starvation of millions of people.
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.
Nor do people want to live in a system where their prosperity depends on the starvation of countless others.
Sulphur starvation leads to various phenotypically visible phenotypical alterations.
Malnutrition occurs prior to starvation, which is simply the long-term deprival of food and its adverse effects.
For decades Kalahandi has been synonymous with droughts, famines, starvation and poverty.
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.
The fine animals that had endured the hellish voyage out from Britain died like flies from cold and sheer starvation.
A multinational behind glamorous fashion and perfume brands pays its factory workers starvation wages.
Reduced diet meant starvation and weakened resistance to illness and disease.
Forced labour and starvation rations ensure that prisoners are too weak to rebel.
Then they died of typhoid, malaria and liver ailments in addition to starvation.
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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Again, a marked concentration of the blood, shown by erythrocytosis and leucocytosis, indicates starvation.
I asked him if he wanted us to die from starvation, and then another man offered me half a fanega.
Verily, there is little danger of starvation on a voyage by trans-atlantic steamer.
And then with surprising unanimity, each 98 picnicker from Aunt Abigail down, declared herself on the verge of starvation.
In aggravated cases, the gastrostomy opening must be retained in order to prevent death from starvation.
After starvation, the diet must be raised very slowly, to prevent recurrence of glycosuria.
To do this before an unprovisioned army would be forced by starvation to surrender was the problem.
Grief and hunger had dried up the fountain of life in her bosom, and her unweaned child had perished of starvation.
A heart ceases to beat from haemorrhage, or starvation, from exhaustion, or the depressing influence of certain drugs.
The Loucheux Indian, his wives, his babies, and his slab-sided dogs suffer from starvation almost every winter.
But nearly all pension schemes, like most out-relief systems, fix the allowance at a starvation figure.
Phillips Brooks was howlin' starvation in the woodshed, and Scudder let him howl.
Scurvy and the vicious forms of zymotic disease, which depend upon starvation and vitiated atmosphere, raged unchecked.
It was pure kindness, for he would have died slowly otherwise of starvation.
The second day of starvation she was sugar-free, with a moderate acetone reaction.
It is probable that the men were suffering from starvation, purpura and dysentery.
Well, amongst these liberated captives was one who told a sad tale of starvation at his internment camp.
All tragedies are not those of violence, but of depletion, too, and of starvation.
Exclusion was to me starvation, and I eagerly adopted the counsel of my companion.
They were spent with age and starvation, and were only fit for the knacker's yard.
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