Sentence examples for effectively starved from inspiring English sources

The siege has so effectively starved the group of fuel supplies that they can only respond to major airstrikes now, and heavy bombardment means limb amputations and head trauma are now the most common injuries they see.

The provision doesn't explicitly prohibit gun violence research, but it has effectively starved it of federal funding.

Jellicoe announced that at present loss rates, Britain would be effectively starved into submission by November 1917.

When malnourished children do go to school, they often have chronic parasites from poor quality water and are effectively "starved," which can result in stunting.

In contrast to poisonous insecticides that target the nervous system, Bt acts by producing a protein that blocks the digestive system of the insect, effectively starving it.

Ryan's uncharacteristic munificence toward defense requires his cuts elsewhere to be even more draconian, effectively starving most of the rest of the government to death.

It also led G.M. not to introduce any new Saturn models for five years during the 1990s, effectively starving the division of new products that might have lured in new customers.

He imagines, for example, an oncologist no longer having to struggle with the trial and error of chemotherapy because "we can now examine a person's DNA as well as the mutated DNA of the cancer cells and develop proteins that will fold in just the right way to effectively starve the cancer cells without causing any problems for the normal cells".

The plastic then gums up the coral's digestive systems, they discovered, suggesting that microplastics could effectively starve coral by preventing proper digestion of real food.

IDO functions by cleaving the essential amino acid tryptophan, for which chlamydiae are auxotrophic, thus effectively starving the chlamydiae and inducing a growth arrest [6], [7], [8], [9], [10].

It is possible that surviving stress tolerant symbiont genotypes retain a greater portion of their photosynthetically fixed carbon for cell metabolism and repair, thereby ensuring their own survival but effectively starving the host coral.