Sentences with phrase «slow starvation»

The ascetic diet of slow starvation eliminated body fat — which tends to decay faster than other types of tissue — and built up chemical compounds toxic to bacteria associated with decomposition.

That is what «basic level» consists of: solitary confinement, dehumanisation, deprivation of any support or sympathetic human contact and, in the worse - case scenario, actual slow starvation.

«These galaxies entered a feeding frenzy that would quickly exhaust the food supply in the following hundreds of million years and lead to the new galaxy's slow starvation for the rest of its life,» said lead author Hai Fu, a UC Irvine postdoctoral scholar.

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

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.

Slow starvation and homelessness?

Would that we had died full in Egypt rather than die empty here, by slow starvation!

Hard totalitarians simply exiled their unreconstructed subjects and critics to Siberia, but soft totalitarians prefer tying their subjects in a morass of ever thickening regulations, denying their critics any airtime — slow starvation being so much more humane and progressive.