hunger strike
绝食抗议,绝食罢工,绝食,绝食斗争
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- : a deliberate refusal to eat, undertaken in protest against imprisonment, improper treatment, objectionable conditions, etc.
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Through the pane of glass that serves as a window at one end of the pod, we learned that one next to ours had begun a hunger strike.
Thirty-three people that morning decided to go on a hunger strike.
Those buzzing stinging monsters can finish up a man faster than any hunger strike.
Navalny’s health has been deteriorating since he was imprisoned, and he began a hunger strike three weeks ago to protest his lack of medical treatment.
He briefly went on hunger strike in August 2020, citing a lack of protection in prison, after another inmate attacked him.
The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.
Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.
A senior Iranian official in Pakistan later confirmed the strike took place, declining to elaborate.
Saleem believes that the strike came from a nearby airbase across the Iranian border.
Leave it to Katniss to cut through a story with one perfectly aimed strike.
It was he who first said, If thine enemy hunger give him food, if he thirst give him drink.
The heir apparent and his brothers were cowering in fear, afraid to strike, yet hoping that others would strike for them.
Or, if I escaped these dangers for a day or two, what could I expect but a miserable death of cold and hunger?
On this the royal band of music would strike up its liveliest airs, and a great bell would toll its evening warning.
Jacob robbed his brother of his birthright by trading on his hunger; Joseph robbed a whole people in the same way.