Sentences with phrase «by slow starvation»

It has been well said that, in a country where the sole employer is the state, opposition means death by slow starvation.

Catherine described hiding in the mire of pigs to escape the Red Army, only to be captured and condemned to death by slow starvation.

Not exact matches

Jainism is the one faith with which the author is acquainted which not only condones but lauds suicide, only, however, by the method of slow starvation.

«It felt like my body stubbornly clung to each and every last fat molecule in my cells as if they were all that stood between my baby and a miserable, slow death by starvation.»

This NSM shows that, overall, larger animals with slower metabolisms are the most stable against extinction by starvation.

The creators of this diet thought that by never staying consistently low with the calories, one would be able to avoid the «starvation mode» metabolic slow - down.

-- Lost around 70 pounds via restriction years ago and maintained by continual starvation, using «complex, slow burning» carbs to «control» blood sugar and obsess about eating for around 8 years.

The less food you eat — especially when we are restricting what the body truly needs — the slower our metabolism becomes because the body responds to starvation mode by hanging onto body fat and burning calories more slowly.

I think the sheer volume does lend a degree of exaggeration to their numbers, but hey, there are at least 900 (they signed the Amazon are condemning poor James Patterson to a slow death by starvation open letter), plus of course all the staff at traditional publishing houses, and some camp - followers.

It is, and we must address it, just as we must address the threat posed by all invasive species that stifle threatened local native species - both introduced ones like cats, rats, foxes, rabbits, pigs, mynah birds (I've given up hoping cattle and sheep farming will ever be addressed, and I've had the Man From Snowy River quoted at me often enough by misty eyed horse lovers to know the wild brumbies must continue to run free and destroy the mountain country for everything else before dying a horrible, slow death from starvation in the cold, Winter snow) and native ones like noisy miners and eastern rosellas.

Instant death by humane methods is better than a slow death by disease, exposure, starvation, being crushed under the wheels of a car, or the painful living death of negligence or cruelty.