Sentence examples for using starvation as a from inspiring English sources
"The regime is using starvation as a weapon and the west does not seem bothered by it.
Their government is perfectly capable of using starvation as a bargaining chip.
Syrian officials, often accused of using starvation as a weapon, worry about food going to "terrorists" – their catch-all label for any opposition to Assad.
The release came as Amnesty International issued a report that said the Syrian army had been using starvation as a "weapon of war" in its siege of a Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus.
Activists accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Shia militant group that supports his regime, of cutting off access to humanitarian actors, and of using starvation as a tool of war and means of political leverage.
"Whether he's using chemical weapons or using starvation as a force, he's saying, 'I own you and I can do whatever I want,'" Khalid said, "and the international community will do nothing about it.'".
The ambassador said that the Houthi rebels being bombed by the Saudi-led coalition had bombed civilians, deployed child soldiers and used starvation as a weapon.
In a letter to MEPs ahead of the vote, he said Houthi rebels being bombed by the Saudi-led coalition had bombed civilians, deployed child soldiers and used starvation as a weapon.
The regime has not complied and continues to use starvation as a weapon of war.
And ironically many of those same leaders who thought it was appropriate to use starvation as a weapon are still presiding over affairs.
The Security Council has demanded unimpeded humanitarian access in Syria, and there was some risk that the deal in Madaya, Foua, and Zefraya could set a precedent for using starvation tactics as a chip at the negotiating table.
