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Starved of sweet fuel, the bugs cannot work hard enough to break up great wads of vegetation as they progress through the animal.

China today has become what many call a two-track economy, with a state-owned sector flooded with cash and a private one starved of funding.

Much of the demand for this credit comes from property developers starved of funds by the banks and shut out of public bond markets.

IT HAS been a cheerful couple of days for those starved of bright economic news.

Choosing poorly can allow the garbage collector to preempt your NHRTs or cause parts of your system to be starved of CPU.

So it was into a campaign starved of substance that the issue of illegal immigration inserted itself.

Just when we need a strong international organization, the United Nations is starved of funds and often sidelined by its own member state.

it succumbed not to the insurgents, but to the regular armies of North Vietnam, after the war effort was starved of support by Congress.

Measures are being rolled out to support smaller companies, which have been starved of access to credit.

Meanwhile, other parts of the economy, especially cash-strapped firms, are being starved of the loans they need.

Starved of proper investment, agriculture throughout the Middle East has developed little and remains generally small-scale and inefficient.

They also studied the brains of mice that had been starved of salt for three days and then given salty water to drink freely.

Australians are starved of intimacy, if the results of a new sex study are anything to go by.

Mr Prince argued that Citigroup had been starved of investment under Mr Weill and stepped up spending.

In this case the markets felt starved of detail, and bothered by German insistence that private investors must bear part of the burden.

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

Starved of investment and beset by rebellion in the Niger Delta oil region, the country is pumping at barely two-thirds of its capacity.

Even as companies and the largest cities are prospering, many parts of society are starved of resources.

Microfinance is a promising way to get credit to parts of the economy that are starved of capital.

As long as the credit crunch lasts and companies are starved of funding, China's window of opportunity will remain open.

Nevertheless, exoplanet surveys are providing real data to a field long starved of them.

The result is not just that universities are starved of cash, but that students often dawdle pointlessly over their courses.

Because starved of money, they have to cancel their plan to start a business.

This may leave the exporter starved of credit and unable to ship on time.

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

University departments will grind to a halt. High-tech companies will be starved of personnel.

In extreme cases, the lower priority queues rarely were serviced and effectively were starved of bandwidth.

And private equity and hedge funds would be further starved of leverage.

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

Today, starved of the investment in automation it so badly needed, the Royal Mail is 40% less efficient than its local competitors.

But firms starved of credit, short of cash and worried about future demand can scarcely afford to maintain fat stock levels.

Starved of funds and facing not just losses but lawsuits (see article), the banks are hoarding liquidity and capital.

Genuinely independent firms are starved of formal credit, so they rely on China's shadow banking system.

The dictator had few supporters in Libya's eastern capital, a place he despised and starved of resources.

Her students, all boys, were eager and hungry, starved of information even more than food.

Starved of information about the Dacians, researchers are mining the bracelets for meaning.

Decent businesses are being starved of credit and driven into bankruptcy.

But for firms starved of growth in the eastern provinces, the opportunity to expand will be welcome.

Meanwhile businesses were starved of skilled labour.

In the short term, the central bank will be starved of talent and leadership at an extremely tricky time.

Industry is being starved of advanced technologies.

A head-cooling cap that can prevent or reduce brain damage in infants starved of oxygen at birth won federal approval Wednesday.

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

The motherless children were starved of affection.

In contrast, smaller funds and funds of funds remain starved of capital.

Being starved of funds , they had to cancel their plan to start a business.

In recent years the Department has been starved of financial resources.

Today, however, many energy projects are starved of capital because of the credit crunch, energy prices are low and the yen is strong.

Sadly, the FOP project remains starved of resources.

My, U must be starved of Chinese food in Rome.

The plant was starved of light and died.

We were drowning in data but starved of infromation.

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

The department has been starved of resources.

VISITORS to Uganda have rarely been starved of sex if they have wanted it.

People starved of sleep start to lose focus.

As a result, galaxies in clusters become starved of gas over time, and black hole activity and star formation in these galaxies slows.

The project was starved of funds.

In the 1990s, rural China was starved of financial resources in order to support industrial development in the cities.

The engine was starved of petrol and wouldn't start.

The school is understaffed and starved of funds.

People in this region are starved of.

Not only is our education system being starved of investment, but many of our children are literally too hungry to learn.