Mr. ISMAIL ABU ALI (Day Laborer, Baghdad): (Through translator) If we don't work, then we will starve.
The slowly burning pantry and refrigerator, filled with ordinary food items we take for granted and without which we would starve, is our economy.
If we continue to starve the technological research agenda of funds, however, we risk delaying fusion power and ceding technological leadership to China and Korea.
We could choose to do so, just as a person trapped in a warehouse full of food could choose to starve, but we could never be forced to.
In our plan to starve the North Korean economy we must call for an end to concession payments and blackmail negotiations.
My mother never forced me to do this job but she told me that there was no other work and if we didn't do it the family would starve.
Regulate them, starve them of capital and places to develop resources and we will see wild supply swings and price fluctuations.
And we are taking action with our international partners to further isolate Assad, to starve his regime of the resources it needs to continue to perpetuate this violence against the Syrian people.
How many times have we read, in the last 50 years, that this or that environmental apocalypse is going to starve the world?
Instead of live boxing, we spent a fully day trading blame over regulatory gridlock that, if not resolved soon, could starve mobile users of much-needed radio spectrum and end the fun just down the hall.
Instead of the conciliatory Obama of the first term, we have seen a hard-nosed pugilist who paints Republicans as wackos ready to hurt senior citizens and starve children to protect the rich.
Compare that to a century ago: people did indeed still starve in the streets in what are now rich parts of the world: two centuries ago we still had at least occasional outbreaks of widespread famine among those at the bottom, those at the not-interesting end of the inequality gap.
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We may choose to do so (just as a person in a room full of food could choose to starve), but that would be foolish.
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