If you starve yourself (either of food and small spending), you will be more likely to fall off the wagon and blow the budget on a whim.

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They also sought to starve insurgents by restricting supplies of food to the population.

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We may choose to do so (just as a person in a room full of food could choose to starve), but that would be foolish.

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We could choose to do so, just as a person trapped in a warehouse full of food could choose to starve, but we could never be forced to.

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Our reports on Zimbabwe and North Korea exposed the political manipulation of food as a way to starve dissidents.

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The stressful conditions make corals release the algae -- their source of food -- and thereby effectively starve themselves to death in the process.

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I've struggled to lose weight all my life but never been desperate enough to starve myself, partly due to my love and appreciation of food and partly due to my awareness of how unhealthy such a move would be.

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Some Africans are so fearful of plant technology that Zambia's government would rather have its citizens starve than accept donated food that includes genetically modified corn.

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One much-discussed book of the time even argued that India was fundamentally unviable and should be left to starve, conserving scarce food aid for savable countries.

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