Sentence examples for avoid starving from inspiring English sources

Because trees in the tropics come into fruit at random, an animal needs a lot of fruit trees in its range if it is to avoid starving.

Dr. Pontzer said the orangutans may have evolved this parsimonious metabolism to avoid starving when the ripe fruits that they eat periodically become scarce in their native rainforests.

Our ancestors had to attend to a lot of things that most of us can safely ignore -- how to avoid starving to death or being mauled by wild animals, etc.

A repeat offender, an air force reservist turned civilian, had his security clearance suspension reduced to a week after he pleaded to a supervisor that he used the card to avoid "starving to death, becoming homeless, or being stranded in the desert due to no gas".

So how did Teotihuacanos avoid starving in lean times?

This enables to avoid starving and blocking and to achieve high system utilization while producing multiple product types with unknown demands and high volumes.

I have no doubt, if for example, we got rid of Social Security and Medicare, there are many 95-year-olds who would choose to work more to avoid potentially starving or to give themselves the opportunity to get health care, I don't think anyone would say that's a compelling argument to eliminate Social Security and Medicare.

The total manipulation time (from bacterial lawn to the beginning of the assay) was kept under 10 min to avoid inadvertently starving the worms.

Cities, starved of funding by austerity-obsessed leaders in Washington and state capitols, write tickets and charge fees for residents already struggling to avoid hunger and eviction.

It is called food stamps, and it helps people avoid malnutrition and starving to death.

One monkey avoided pulling the chain for 12 days (until virtually starving) to avoid hurting a companion.