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The time-starved might be baffled at the thought of decorating clothes pegs and storing them in a hand-sewn fabric bag.
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Several outlets are now quoting me as a source for the unsupportable claim that nuns starved 800 babies to death before dumping them in a septic tank.
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You starved him when alive, and you can not with good grace erect a monument to him now.
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Unfortunately, the king had to go to war and the stepmother maltreated and starved her stepdaughter.
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Sources said the government is also planning to make optimum use of the available nuclear sites in various states to accommodate more atomic reactors to meet energy-starved country's growing needs.
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Supplies to the settlement were inadequate and if sealers had not supplied potatoes, the Aboriginal people would have starved.
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For example, lions were reportedly starved to promote vicious attacks on hyenas, monkeys and deer.
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A quick loss of blood pressure and the brain is instantaneously starved of blood and there is no time to start feeling any pain.
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He starved himself and died 3 days later of infections.
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Anyone who happened to survive this treatment was then sent to prison, where the inmates were starved to death.
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