List of synonyms from "hundred-proof" to synonyms from "hunting dog"
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Definition of the day : « hunger strike »
- noun fasting for a cause
- I went on a hunger strike and made them give me a complete laboratory.
- Extract from : « Triplanetary » by Edward Elmer Smith
- All of the prisoners adopted the hunger strike, as we knew they would.
- Extract from : « My Own Story » by Emmeline Pankhurst
- When arrested for damaging property, they went on a "hunger strike," refusing all nourishment.
- Extract from : « A Short History of Women's Rights » by Eugene A. Hecker
- He regretfully recognized the fact that he would not make a success of a hunger strike.
- Extract from : « The Secret Adversary » by Agatha Christie
- He thereupon went on hunger strike for three days, and alarmed the Turks by nearly dying in their hands.
- Extract from : « Caught by the Turks » by Francis Yeats-Brown
- At Spokane, in 1910, the jail was soon filled, and sixty prisoners went on a hunger strike which cost several lives.
- Extract from : « The Armies of Labor » by Samuel P. Orth
- They decided to postpone the hunger strike until the Home Secretary had had time to reply.
- Extract from : « My Own Story » by Emmeline Pankhurst
- We agreed to wait seven Parliamentary days before we began a hunger strike protest.
- Extract from : « My Own Story » by Emmeline Pankhurst
- I have described the hunger strike, that terrible weapon with which we had repeatedly broken our prison bars.
- Extract from : « My Own Story » by Emmeline Pankhurst
- With the two wardresses I entered a four wheeler and was driven to Holloway to begin my hunger strike.
- Extract from : « My Own Story » by Emmeline Pankhurst