How To Use Hunger strike In A Sentence
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He is on hunger strike in protest at what he claims is his wrongful conviction for murder.
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By comparison, the current hunger strike - in which 12 of the 13 were being force-fed as of Friday - seems almost symbolic.
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She's adamant that she'll begin an indefinite hunger strike once she reaches jail.
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On Feb. 20 thousands of people rallied at the university campus in the support of the hunger strikers.
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They staged demonstrations and hunger strikes, but to little avail.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nearly two months ago he began a hunger strike in protest at his treatment.
Times, Sunday Times
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This link points to "Weeping Sikkim," a blog that chronicles an ongoing hunger strike by the youth of Sikkim, India to demand goverment transparency and accountability regarding hydroelectric projects in Dzongu, the homeland of the Lepcha people.
Boing Boing
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Last week she began a hunger strike but ended it on Friday after an emergency visit from her family.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have begun a hunger strike in protest at the alleged beating.
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The action, led by the Coalition of Workers, follows a work stoppage last December and a hunger strike by six tomato pickers two seasons ago.
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Meanwhile, former IRA hunger striker and Old Bailey bomber Marian Price is still being quizzed about dissident republican actions by the PSNI.
Queen's visit to Ireland could mark the start of a new era, says Gerry Adams
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Cuban doctors treating a political dissident who's on hunger strike say he is in danger of dying despite their efforts to keep him alive.
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Officials say some detainees go on and off hunger strike from time to time.
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Pakistani university professors and lecturers held a national hunger strike on April 5 against education privatisation plans.
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When he engaged in a hunger strike, the authorities committed him to a hospital where he was force fed, involuntarily sedated, handcuffed and sometimes strapped to his bed for long periods.
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Wilner saw him changed by the hunger strike from a happy, outgoing, strongly pro-American young man to a withdrawn, cadaverous, weak figure.
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300 students occupied the building and over 50 went on hunger strike .
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Demonstrations were held as a gesture of solidarity with the hunger strikers.
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CNN -- Hundreds of California prisoners remain on hunger strike in protest of what they describe as their harsh treatment, though state authorities and inmate-rights advocates differed over the numbers involved.
CNN.com
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Mahatma Ghandi made effective use of political fasts, as did the British suffragists, who brought hunger strikes to the American suffrage movement.
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Granting leave to wear civilian clothes would have pre-empted the hunger strikes.
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Unwilling to release all the imprisoned suffragettes, the prison authorities force-fed these women on hunger strike.
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The hunger strikers are demanding compensation and medical benefits for all the affected workers.
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On September 5 workers occupied a building at the firm's Poznan headquarters and began a hunger strike.
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Hunger strikers no longer feel obliged to duplicate the gravitas of such famous trailblazers as the suffragettes and Gandhi.
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Eventually, the hunger strikers were force-fed.
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NOTE2: WANG CHING-FENG Minister of Justice, also said in public in front of cameras that the Justice will not allow itself to be "blackmailed" by a hunger strike.
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The people behind the Sikkim protest blog are also uploading YouTube videos like this one (Video Link), which shows ACT (Affected citizens of Teesta) members Dawa Lepcha (age 35) and Tenzing Gyatso Lepcha (20), on the 34th of their hunger strike.
Boing Boing
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But once the tanks had rolled over the tents of the hunger strikers and once the bodies had been removed and the blood washed away, what was left was a breach between party and people that would never heal.
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She's adamant that she'll begin an indefinite hunger strike once she reaches jail.
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Western Sahara activist on hunger strike in Spain's Canary Islands has been told to appear in court on public order charges, her supporters say.
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The rest of the detainees wrote and signed a letter that they had witnessed the abuse, and went on a hunger strike.
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The strikers held a march and observed a token hunger strike.
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Demonstrations were held as a gesture of solidarity with the hunger strikers.
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They suffered stigmatism, criminalization (jailed for picketing the White House on trumped up charges), they endured abuse at the hands of government officials (force feeding in jail while on a hunger strike).
Love and Solidarity on IDEVASW Day « Bound, Not Gagged
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The suburban railways 'motormen's hunger strike caused enormous hardship to Mumbaikars, out of touch in recent times with bandhs and trade unionism.
Daily News & Analysis
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Nearly two months ago he began a hunger strike in protest at his treatment.
Times, Sunday Times
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It became the political and spiritual omphalos in which the two key moments of the last 30 political years were determined: the military campaign that internment created and the political struggle to end the war the hunger strike created.
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The good news is that hunger strikes by the Buddhist community in Sikkim have sucessfully stopped hydroprojects in the past.
Boing Boing
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He hit his head on a boat propeller then claimed that police had hit him with an oar and went on a hunger strike in hospital.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is on hunger strike in protest at what he claims is his wrongful conviction for murder.
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Every time mass deportment had been attempted, it had ended in hunger strikes, riots, and every form of possible protest.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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The hunger strike fizzled out soon afterwards under pressure from the strikers' relatives.
Times, Sunday Times
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Resolutions from the university senate and several protests, including a hunger strike by seventeen students, have sought to focus public attention on the disparity in benefits.
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The next day the hunger strike.
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He has attempted to blackguard the hunger strikers, calling for an investigation into reports that they have coerced their children into joining the fast.
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World news Cuba Dissident dies on hunger strike in Cuban jailAmnesty prisoner of conscience Orlando Zapata Tamayo 'unrecognisable' after 85-day fast over beatings
Indymedia Ireland
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A militant suffragist, she energized the movement through her hunger strikes and her fiery rhetoric.
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About 60 prisoners have gone on hunger strike.
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At least 20 teachers became ill and were transfused saline during the hunger strike, according to the strikers.
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Kennelly emphatically denied the claim made by some detainees in the Times article that the leaders of the hunger strike had been put into isolation or transferred to other, more distant detention centers.
Glyn Vincent: The Right to Be Heard
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In a protest against the British activities throughout Ireland, Ashe went on a hunger strike in Mountjoy Prison where the authorities attempted to force-feed him.
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To increase pressure on the strikers guards began confiscating the inmates' snack foods, and the prison sent a medical officer around to check daily on every hunger striker.
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But as Tutu defied his years to dance with the Soweto Gospel Choir, half an hour's drive away, another churchman had just completed a month-long hunger strike.
Desmond Tutu's dreams for Cape Town fade as informal apartheid grips the city
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“We are sorry and concerned to hear Debbie is on hunger strike.”
Trans woman calls off hunger strike protest at Nottinghamshire PCT’s refusal to fund meds and surgery
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They have begun a hunger strike in protest at the alleged beating.
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As an activist, sticker-plastered bullhorn in hand, he has led hunger strikes and helped organize protests against the National Hydrological Plan throughout Spain.
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I joined a hunger strike at Northwestern and subsisted on liquids for almost a week, but went off it when I almost fainted.
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The lone survivor of the Bhotmange family Bhaiyyalal launched an indefinite hunger strike, along with 13 supporters in front of the Bhandara district collectorate on Tuesday.
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One has gone on a hunger strike.
The Sun
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Actually, the equivalent of war supporters joining the service would not be war opponents staging hunger strikes in D.C., it would be war opponents flying to Iraq and opposing the war there, lying down in front of tanks, encouraging Iraqi soldiers and policemen and American soldiers and marines to desert or 'frag' their officers, demonstrating for peace in Sadr City, acting as human shields in crowded marketplaces, and so on.
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The film follows the Jalsindhi villagers through hunger strikes, rallies, police brutality and a six year Supreme Court battle.
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The prisoners have gone on hunger strike to protest about prison conditions.
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He is on hunger strike in protest at what he claims is his wrongful conviction for murder.
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They staged demonstrations and hunger strikes, but to little avail.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hunger strikes have been used by woman suffragists, Irish nationalists, and Palestinian prisoners.
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When I went on hunger strike to express my faith, they force-fed me.
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Eleven of the hunger strikers have already been admitted to the hospital.
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I left after the hunger strikes, it was a wile time.
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Blogging a satyagraha - hunger strike - to save homeland in Sikkim
Boing Boing
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The protesters have been on hunger strike for 17 days.
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Thousands watched Anna Hazare take sips of coconut water and honey handed to him by children - a first step to consuming nutrition after staying off food for 13 days on a hunger strike.
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During a hunger strike she asked to go to Confession.
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At her mother's pleading, she agreed to suspend her hunger strike.
Times, Sunday Times
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Former Taiwan leader Chen Shui - bian has gone on a hunger strike to protest against his arrest.
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Brady collapsed on Boxing Day, three months into a hunger strike in protest at his transfer to a tougher ward.
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It said that the demonstrations, sit-ins and hunger strikes have the result of disrupting social stability.
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They have begun a hunger strike in protest at the alleged beating.
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300 students occupied the building and over 50 went on hunger strike .
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Brady collapsed on Boxing Day, three months into a hunger strike in protest at his transfer to a tougher ward.
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Two of the hunger strikers have already fallen ill and have had been hospitalised.
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Spanish artists, singers and actors have staged a concert in support of a Western Sahara activist on hunger strike on the Spanish island Lanzarote.
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He is on hunger strike in protest at what he claims is his wrongful conviction for murder.
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She has been held intermittently in solidarity confinement and went on hunger strike last year.
Times, Sunday Times
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A Chinese detainee immediately called for a hunger strike, and was beaten as well.
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Twenty-five prisoners, thought to be the ringleaders of a hunger strike caused by appalling food, were confined to a punitive boiler room whose temperature could go up to 200 degrees.
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Criminal violence to protest the Japanese army, he began a hunger strike.
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There have been forced deportations, breakouts, riots and hunger strikes at the harshest ones.
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He go on hunger strike until the prison authorities allow him to receive mail.
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University students continue to organise stoppages, marches, hunger strikes, occupations and sit-ins in the major cities.
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A woman has died after several months on a hunger strike in protest against prison reforms, bringing the death toll from the fasts to 20.
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They have begun a hunger strike in protest at the alleged beating.
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The five hunger strikers in London called off their strike and celebrated the good news.
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From tomorrow onwards decision " hunger strike.
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In The Machinist he is as emaciated as a hunger striker.
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They staged demonstrations and hunger strikes, but to little avail.
Times, Sunday Times
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Last week she began a hunger strike but ended it on Friday after an emergency visit from her family.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would be nice to think we’re all going to start reaching for a raw carrot or celery stick when hunger strikes between meals.
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Thurston discusses what he calls mystic hunger strikers, as well as the disconcerting ability to see without eyes.
Experiencing the Next World Now
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The blockade follows demonstrations and a week-long sit-in and hunger strike at the regional office.
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She has been held intermittently in solidarity confinement and went on hunger strike last year.
Times, Sunday Times
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After many days of fasting, the hunger strikers present a progressively more serious deterioration, emaciation and profound dehydration.
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The hunger strike fizzled out soon afterwards under pressure from the strikers' relatives.
Times, Sunday Times
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About 60 prisoners have gone on hunger strike.
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On June 10, they held a one-day hunger strike.
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Eventually, the hunger strikers were force-fed.
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One has gone on a hunger strike.
The Sun
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He went on hunger strike for a day after prison guards threw him into solitary confinement.
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I think of political prisoners on hunger strikes around the world; my suffering is naught compared to theirs.
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At her mother's pleading, she agreed to suspend her hunger strike.
Times, Sunday Times
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The day was further marred by the death of a jailed journalist after a ten-day hunger strike.
Times, Sunday Times
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The five hunger strikers in London called off their strike and celebrated the good news.
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Last year, three women of ethnic Bulgarian origin went on a hunger strike as a last resort in their desperation to seek protection from the state.
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A prisoner has starved to death after fasting for seven months, becoming the 48th person to die in hunger strikes protesting against changes to Turkey's prison system.
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He is on hunger strike in protest at what he claims is his wrongful conviction for murder.
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The protesters have been on hunger strike for 17 days.
