Sentence examples for starving out from inspiring English sources

Shouting down or starving out those with whom we disagree can seem so much easier than confronting their arguments.

These new devices were countered by better walls, towers, ditches, and outworks so that in general the besiegers had to rely on treason, bribery, stratagem, or on starving out the besieged town.

This removes the carbon from the waters, preventing fish and other organisms from using it as a food source, ultimately starving out some sea life.

The principle of maximum entropy production asserts that systems utilize resources from the surroundings as rapidly as possible, construed as a kind of selection in which whoever sequesters the most energy fastest wins, starving out their slower competitors.

Since they first appeared in the United States in 1988 as stowaways in ship ballast water, their habit of starving out native invertebrates and fouling equipment has made them serious aquatic pests.

In a healthy economy, capital markets and discriminating customers fuel growth and new ventures by handsomely rewarding well-executed ideas, and ruthlessly starving out even long-running ventures that refuse to adapt and innovate.

Speaks of the government's pampering of the peasants who could starve out Communism.

According to local and international aid workers, President Assad's forces appeared to be trying to starve out residents.

The hippies claimed that they were being "starved out", unable to collect water or buy food from Bratton village.

"We're like a town in Roman times, cut off and surrounded until we're starved out," Deyanira Perdomo said.

Once that was done, the "nest of hornets" could close off maritime traffic through the Virginia capes, starve out Fortress Monroe and threaten Washington.