Sentence examples for to the point of starvation from inspiring English sources

From here on in – and we are still not yet halfway through – the book rations incident almost to the point of starvation.

Sometimes the results are austere to the point of starvation, as in his bare-bones 50-minute version of Dostoyevsky's "Grand Inquisitor" several years ago.

The House members culled alarming quotes from students, drawn from news articles (a philosophy major at the University of Kansas: "It's almost come to the point of starvation at times") and lit into colleges for their lack of "accountability".

After all, by only refraining for the 40 days of Lent, we are not, like Gwyneth Paltrow not feeding her children any carbohydrates – or, like someone who is fasting to the point of starvation and endangering their life– completely denying ourselves of something.

US officials said the objection to freeing Tariq Ba Odah, who is undernourished to the point of starvation, and the decision to challenge his legal gambit outside of public view, are indications that the Obama administration will fight tenaciously to stop detainees from seeking freedom in federal courts, despite Barack Obama's oft-repeated pledge to close Guantánamo.

Over the course of ten pages, it outlined some Wild West claims about "predatory contracting practices" by an array of prime defense purveyors, many of whom have not been paying their Afghan subcontractors — sometimes for years, and sometimes to the point of starvation.

Realising the old couple lived at the point of starvation in order to be able to feed the raven, the guest asked them why they were doing it.

The family were on the point of starvation: all they had to eat was a tiny portion of millet each day.

Throughout the southern Sudan, United Nations officials estimate, at least 1.2 million people face severe food shortages this year, though most people have not yet reached the point of starvation.

Since the beginning of the war, the fort had been cut off from the outside world and without adequate food its garrison of almost 200 men had reached the point of starvation and despair.

The situation tensed when the hijacked Lufthansa aircraft came dangerously close to the point of fuel starvation.