A week has passed, and the men show no signs of being starved into submission.
If there were ever to be a successful siege, it would have to starve the garrison into submission.
We know that starving a third world country into submission is a morally bankrupt foreign policy.
That would be done in an effort to starve guerrilla fighters into submission, according to the plan.
That's the basic flaw in any attempt to starve a people into submission.
What do they say about starving us into submission?
Unable to take the city by direct assault, they set about starving it into submission.
The 47-day siege was intended to starve the city into submission.
I mean he's not going to wait to starve the base into submission.
Unable to get supplies they would be starved into submission.