starvation diet

But to building owners the bill looks like a starvation diet.

She got by on a starvation diet of loyalty these days.

"Right now it's on a bit of a starvation diet."

It's just a financial starvation diet in terms of budget support for these parks.

What would a prolonged period of starvation diet do to such a nervous system?

Collectors, too long on a starvation diet, went into a feeding frenzy.

Stringency is one thing, and a starvation diet quite another."

"It's a starvation diet, like skipping two meals a day for the next seven years."

Our official rations had been cut back again, and now amounted to a starvation diet.

"The average Russian is only two hundred calories a day from a starvation diet.

For most of the past two decades, the United States has put foreign aid on a starvation diet.

Twelve women were selected and put on starvation diets to prepare them for the voyage.

The food provisions were ill-conceived forcing the team on starvation diets.

Others contend that the commission has been on a starvation diet over three mayoral administrations.

"Readers who felt forced onto a starvation diet" after her death in 1995 "should celebrate" its appearance.

May 3, 1981 - It's like I'm on a starvation diet.

It could be that some wild animal is pacing through the Shades after two weeks on a starvation diet.

I just figured you wanted the starvation diet on account of it's the easiest and the most economical.

The prisoners were worked 12 hours a day on starvation diets, and mortality rates were high.

He survived brutal beatings, a lack of medical facilities and a starvation diet.

A little starvation diet won't do you any harm."

The war years proved to be very difficult, often living a starvation diet and, for Victor, an arrest on spying charges.

Jockeys are forced to go on starvation diets and practice bulimic habits.

Exercise is not part of the diet prescription, probably because physical activity would be difficult on a starvation diet.

"Every man in her family ate like a pig and looked like he was on a starvation diet.