Sentence examples for had been hunger from inspiring English sources

The suffragettes had been hunger striking since 1909.

Among others who had been protesting was Jonathan Butler, who had been hunger striking for a week, the original 11 members of the group Concerned Student 1950, coaches, graduate students and professors who were also refusing to work.

There had been hunger strikes by Irish republican prisoners since 1917, and twelve men had previously died on hunger strikes including Thomas Ashe, Terence MacSwiney, Seán McCaughey, Michael Gaughan and Frank Stagg.

As Berwick tells it — and others affirm — the Medicare staff had been hungering for such a mission.

The book gave me what I had been hungering for during the months that I was seeing patients with migraine and being frustrated by the thin, impoverished articles that seemed to constitute the modern "literature" on the subject.

Khrayba showed me a photo of a Palestinian man, collapsed on the pavement in Samos, who had been hunger-striking for three days.

"It has been hunger, nothing but hunger!" he wrote to a girlfriend at the age of twenty-two.

A universal problem faced by children and their parents in Syria has been hunger, with malnutrition growing.

Zambia, on the backfoot for most of the semifinal, doggedly resisting Ghanaian attacks, might have won through fate — or it might have been hunger.

"There have been hunger strikes and riots on a wide scale and individual acts on a day-to-day basis by inmates protesting about their treatment.

Dhiab, captured in 2002 and cleared for release in 2009, is over 6ft tall and weighs 152lbs, and has been hunger striking for years to protest his confinement without charge.