6 sentences with 'starving'
Example sentences and phrases with the word starving and other words derived from it.
• « The infernal mills, the starving workers, and the misery and distress of the factory towns were all part of 19th century European capitalism. Whatever could contain those factors, mainly in the form of concessions to workers and state intervention in the economy, had not happened on a large scale when Marx was writing - trade unions themselves were banned in most states until the middle of the century. »
• « After this event, power was divided. The Duma (Russia's representative assembly) appointed a provisional government that enacted important legal reforms but had no power to relieve the Russian army at the front or to provide food for the starving demonstrators. Moreover, the Duma itself represented the interests and beliefs of the educated middle classes, still only a small portion of the Russian population as a whole. »
• « Slave revolts occurred in two camps in August and October 1943, which explains why anyone survived these camps, but by then the camps had already succeeded: almost the entire Polish Jewish population was dead, starving in the ghettos or gassed in the camps. Afterwards, the SS destroyed the remains of the camps to hide the evidence of what had happened there. »
• « The British and the white Kenyan natives reacted to the uprising by creating concentration camps, imprisoning the rebels and slowly starving them to death in the hills. »
• « Parties: before leaving home, try to eat fruit or other low-fat snacks, so that you don't arrive starving. And at the party, fill up on raw vegetables. »
• « The following year, they planned to end the rebellion by cutting off New England from the rest of the colonies and starving it into submission. »