Sentences with phrase «on a hunger strike as»

Lay off the treats, and he'll eat when he is hungry...» (as she proceeded to give him many treats...), his humans spent hundreds of dollars on different types of wet and dry dog food, and the little guy went on a hunger strike as he would turn his nose up.

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She frequently spoke out about the prison's treatment of her as a transgender woman and, in September 2016, went on a hunger strike until the army agreed to provide her with gender reassignment surgery.

Unless you are really, really angry or prepared to go on hunger strike or contract a hitman to take out Wenger then you won't cut it as a proper supporter.

He said he was never beaten or subjected to any inhumane treatment as he recalled that «they (BNI) were extremely concerned when I went on hunger strike».

As we meet John, he has just returned to active duty with the Mindscape agency, following the death of his infant son and suicide of his beloved wife, and is dispatched by Mindscape boss Sebastian (Cox) with helping to unlock the memories of 16 - year - old heiress Anna (Farmiga), who has gone on hunger strike after being confined to her room following her expulsion from an expensive boarding school.

The new image strikes us as more like a traditional movie one - sheet than the usual high fashion imagery on display from the Hunger Games team though it does suggest an awesome action team - up between Katniss and feathery pal Flapperly Warblebreath, AKA The Mockingjay.

In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, twenty - seven - year - old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners.

In the lead up to the Armenian presidential election on February 15th, the incumbent Serzh Sargsyan of the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) emerged as the only viable choice on the ballot after four other prospective candidates dropped out of the race, one of whom was shot in an assassination attempt, while another cited electoral fraud and commenced a hunger strike in protest.

During the strike, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis said she was concerned that «too much of the new evaluations will be based on students» standardized test scores,» and argued there were «too many factors beyond our control which impact how well some students perform on standardized tests, such as poverty, exposure to violence, homelessness, hunger, and other social issues beyond our control» (Chicago Teachers Union, 2012, para. 5).

One mom goes so far as to say she's willing to go on a hunger strike until the petition is revoked, because her kid is special - ed and won't be admitted into the charter.

As rumors of a hunger strike begin to circulate, Louise Dean's pitch - perfect novel places two parents, two sons, and two enemies on a collision course that ends in a surprising and deeply resonant climax.

If Pepper, your cat, cries and trembles all the time she's at the veterinary hospital but would send Aunt Mildred in Iowa into fits of sneezing if she accompanied you on a family visit, or if your boxer Blutto goes on a hunger strike at the kennel while you're eating your way through a cruise, there's an alternative.In truth, many pet owners don't have as good a time as they could on vacation because they worry about the loyal four - footed friends they've left behind.Nine years ago, Jeanne Tusler faced this same problem when she acquired a black teacup toy poodle named Gigi.

Dogs do not go on hunger strikes, but they do offer tantrums, just as children do.

Ever since he was 11 years old, watching the news coverage of Bobby Sands, he'd been ruminating on the hunger strike and the idea of control, about how «as a child, the only time you have control is when you're eating.»

From the furore around Chris Ofili's Holy Virgin Mary during the Brooklyn iteration of the Sensation show in 1999, to last year's kerfuffle over Martin Kippenberger's crucified frog, displayed in Bolzano, Italy — in protest at which an Italian politician, Franz Pahl, went on hunger strike, describing the sculpture as «a grave offence to our Catholic population» — the Catholic church has taken more than its share of body blows in recent years.

Though the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project would not have involved building a huge dam, as Circle of Blue reports, the run - of - river project still would have diverted a 16 kilometer stretch of the river through pipes to generate electricity.In addition to stopping the project, construction on which had been on hold for over a year after scientist AD Agarwal nearly died in a hunger strike protesting the plan, a 135 kilometer stretch of the Bhagirathi River upstream of the town of Uttarkashi will be designated an «environmentally sensitive area», prohibiting future hydro or similar development projects.