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The motherless children were starved of affection.

The plant was starved of light and died.

But the bursting of the biotech bubble has left them starved of cash.

Next to Iraq, Afghanistan has long been starved of resources (see chart).

The countryside suffered. Indigenous entrepreneurs were starved of funds and strangled with red tape.

But since then it has been starved of resources and isolated from the rest of the world.

The reasons for this bleak situation are clear: mental health services are being starved of both human and financial resources.

If their businesses are so starved of capital, why do the middle classes not invest more in them?

It's sobering to consider that many children throughout the world are quite miserable — they are starved of food and shelters.

The west Balkan grid has been starved of investment for more than a decade, while hydro-power units are running below capacity because of a prolonged drought.

This is probably because a fetus starved of oxygen will send oxygenated blood to the brain in preference to rest of the body.

With Serbia still starved of outside investment and with 30 per cent unemployment and little in the way of social security, you had to be resourceful, he said.

People with defective mitochondria suffer debilitating illness and often die young because the tissues of their bodies are starved of the energy they need to work.

"Last year we were starved of supply", Edward Dolman, Christie's chief executive, said in an interview before the recent sales. "Now that has turned."

In spite of reduced respiration, oxygen levels in the blood of the mice did not change, suggesting that no part of the body was at risk of being starved of oxygen.

The direct aim of this strategy would not be a less bad climate, but the more measurable goal of bringing energy to those in the developing world who are currently starved of it.

In the 1960s, impoverished Asia was starved of capital while the West had tons of it sitting idle. So the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was created to recycle the rich world's surpluses.

Seven dogs starved of food and water for two weeks are suspected of eating their Indonesian owner after he returned to his hometown in Manado from a holiday, local media reported on Tuesday.

He realised when he came round after his accident, which had caused his heart to stop and his brain to be starved of oxygen for several minutes, that his body was paralysed.

Many children in the orphanage were starved often.