After a persistent seven-year siege, he was able to forcefully incorporate it into his vast empire in 1473, but only after having starved its citizens into surrender.

This theory is a response to the belief of monetarists, and especially Milton Friedman, that the government must be starved of revenue in order to control the growth of spending ( since, in the view of the monetarists, spending cannot be reduced by elected bodies as the political pressure to spend is too great ).

Appointed Sunday Tribune editor in 1994, Murtagh had limited success, seeing early circulation growth dissipate and the paper starved of resources.

The fungi grow in the exudates from roots starved of phosphorus had increased hyphal growth and produced tertiary branches compared to those grown in exudates from plants given adequate phosphorus.

According to Barotse views, the government in Lusaka also starved Barotseland of development — it has only one tarred road into the centre, from Lusaka to the provincial capital of Mongu, and lacks the kind of state infrastructure projects found in other provinces.

These protists live as individual amoebae until starved, at which point they aggregate and form a multicellular fruiting body in which some cells sacrifice themselves to promote the survival of other cells in the fruiting body.

Many were weak and starved when they surrendered and 4, 250 died in captivity.

The circumvallation and Battle of Alesia 52 BC ; the women and children of the encircled city were evicted to conserve food, where they starved to death between the opposing walls of the defenders and besiegers.

Since then, CPUs, increasingly " starved for data ", have had to stall while they wait for memory accesses to complete.

Those who escaped massacres were many times unable to survive without access to their food-gathering areas, and they starved to death.

Some said that had it not been for Mr. Otrey they might have starved.

During the banquet at Nyköpingshus, Birger arrested Valdemar and Erik and committed them to the dungeon, where, according to legend, they starved to death.

In 1450, Christian I forbade farmers to trade goods outside of Denmark, with the result that they sailed directly to Germany to sell their goods, bypassing the town of Stege, which was starved of goods and revenue.

This was in effect “ till they were near starved indeed ” and they returned home.

In the morning they are captured by Giant Despair, who takes them to his Doubting Castle, where they are imprisoned, beaten and starved.

However, they were quickly starved into surrender by the Scots.

Instead of reducing every activity by a fifth, the farmer simply starved the parrots as they were of less utility than the other four uses ; in other words they were on the margin.

Indeed, this occurred during the Great Famine in Ireland in 1845 – 52, where food was exported though people were starving, due to the greater profits in selling to the English – the equilibrium price of the Irish-British market for potatoes was above the price that Irish farmers could afford, and thus ( among other reasons ) they starved.

Instead of reducing every activity by a fifth, the farmer simply starved the parrots as they were of less utility than the other four uses – in other words, they were on the margin.

After deciding that the cheese is indeed gone they get angry at the unfairness of the situation and both go home starved.

His troops occupied the castle at Karak but they were starved out with much loss of life.

Since they would not cross the railroad tracks, many of them starved to death.

Crazed, parched and starved, they slaughtered mutineers, ate their dead companions and killed the weakest.

People who are emotionally starved, anxious and futile develop a perverse sense of humor (' The Phone Call '); they find grim little pleasures in their living death (' Obituary ').

My one regret is that I was not born three hundred years ago, for then I could have asked to grind ink or hold the paper for those gentleman, and if they would not have me I should have starved outside their doors rather than move away.

He is happy to discuss their plight with them and meanwhile one of them has a brilliant idea — the birds, he says, should stop flying about like idiots and instead should build themselves a great city in the sky, since this would not only allow them to lord it over men, it would also enable them to blockade the Olympian gods in the same way that the Athenians had recently starved the island of Melos into submission.

The townspeople were starved into submission and Caesar's unique defensive earthworks, protruding towards the city and away from it in order to stop a massive Gallic relief force, eventually forced Vercingetorix to surrender.

When an infected host cell is starved for various nutrients such as amino acids ( for example, tryptophan ), iron, or vitamins, this has a negative consequence for Chlamydiae since the organism is dependent on the host cell for these nutrients.

* Amino acid response, the biochemical response of a mammalian cell starved of amino acids.

More likely, it was because they were too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly, into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants.

An October 25, 2006, USA Today editorial, " How Ford starved its Taurus ", noted that the Japanese stuck with their winners and make them better ( such as the Toyota Corolla, which has been in continuous production since the 1960s ), while Detroit automakers retire cars and even entire division nameplates in search of " the next big thing ".

Without their help, the expedition would have starved to death or become hopelessly lost in the Rocky Mountains.

Tradition holds that Chandragupta abdicated his throne to become a Digambara Jain monk and led such an ascetic life that he starved himself to death.

Suffering frequent disruption and damage to infrastructure caused by the Troubles and starved of investment by successive political administrations, the NIR network had become badly run down by the 1960s, with old rolling stock and poorly maintained track.

Since oxygen is carried to tissues in the blood, insufficient blood supply causes tissue to become starved of oxygen.

In an alternate argument, Locke claims that we must allow it to become private property lest all mankind have starved, despite the bounty of the world.

Also, in some axle designs ( such as those used on older Land Rovers ), the top swivel bearing can become starved of lubrication, which is normally supplied by oil which is thrown up by the axle, unless the hubs are locked every few hundred miles.

If McCandless had eaten seeds that contained this mold, he could have become sick, and Krakauer suggests that he thus became unable to get out of bed and so starved.

" I'd probably have become a mediocre architect and starved to death.

Insulin resistant horses tend to become obese very easily and, even when starved down, may have abnormal fat deposits in the neck, shoulders, loin, above the eyes and around the tail head, even when the rest of the body appears to be in normal condition.

Idle facilities that are starved because resources are not distributed to them or simply because none are available can become quite costly.