Sentences with phrase «bullfighting in»

The Spanish tried without much success to introduce bullfighting in their Caribbean colonies, including Cuba, but the only place in the region you'll find this blood sport is in Mexico.

Catalonia banned Bullfighting in 2010 and Monument's increasingly low turnouts mean that it will hold the last of Catalonia's corridas in 2012, following which it will be turned into a small concert arena and bullfighting museum.

Afterward, all bullfighting in Barcelona was officially moved to the Monumental Bullring and Arenas was completely abandoned.

An accomplished debut mystery set in the high - stakes and decidedly murky world of bullfighting in Valencia, Spain

Based on the classic children's book «The Story of Ferdinand» by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, the film stars John Cena as the titular Spanish Fighting Bull who yearns to live a pacifist life but is forced into bullfighting in order to earn his freedom.

Starting on May 15, the San Isidro festival offers the greatest display of bullfighting in the world, taking place over 24 afternoons.

So instead, I planned a month of traveling across Spain to visit the cradle of modern bullfighting in Ronda, watch the new young matadors clutching for Tomás's mantle in Madrid and Seville, and catch the tail end of San Fermín in Pamplona.

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro Carambula, the director of the Rome office of Human Life International, told LifeSiteNews «that the banning of bullfighting in Spain... even as [the government promotes] abortion, represents a triumph of newly invented moral values based on arbitrary «progressive» whims and social fads.»

He walked toward the kitchen, and I looked over at Tio and grinned, and then I looked around the place: the old calendars, a poster about a bullfight in Mexico City, and the clock that advertised an American soft drink.

I saw my first bullfight in Spain at 18, half my life ago.

It was the dead of winter and I quickly discovered there are no bullfights in winter.

Arenas saw its last bullfight in 1977.

The artwork depicts the impact of energy and excitement brought on by her experience of witnessing bullfights in Mexico.

Motherwell's description of the bullfight in the quote above can subsequently be read as being analogous to the struggle of war.

Not exact matches

According to CAS International, the largest anti — bullfighting organization in the world, every year more than 250,000 bulls and cows are left at the blood sport's mercy.

On Sunday afternoons every November, Peruvians pack the Plaza de Acho bullring in Lima to watch elite matadors from all over the world participate in the Señor de los Milagros Bullfight Festival.

Construction began on the Plaza de Acho in 1766, making it the second — oldest bullring in the world and the premier bullfighting venue in Lima.

Located underneath the bullring at the Plaza de Acho, the bullfight museum contains relics and memorabilia from famous bullfights, including a bloodstained costume of a matador who died in the ring, and works of art by Picasso and Goya.

The same goes for shows of fighting cocks and bullfights, which are legal entertainment in some countries.

It led by example five years ago in terms of commitment to animal welfare, when it banned bullfights and animal circuses.

Back to bullfighting, one of Spain's many black boxes, with a man alone in the center of a ring.

Fran's meteoric rise in bullfighting had not been seen since the days of his grandfather.

Before, questioning bullfighting as a cultural tradition had been taboo in Spain — to do so was to be seen as a traitor, unpatriotic.

Seville is by far the most sensuous destination in Spain, but after giving birth to Joselito and Belmonte, it is renowned for having some of the harshest bullfighting critics.

After all, he was already sentenced to meet his own death in a bullfight before 19,000 drunken maniacs at the arena later that afternoon.

I left the ring after Tomás had finished with his two bulls, both entirely revolted by bullfighting and completely convinced that in that half hour I had learned as much about Spain as if I had spent a lifetime examining the paintings in the Prado.

With the recession of 2008 battering Spain, bullfighting, which had never been more popular or reviled in its history, began a precipitous decline in activity.

Over the course of nearly three hours, Tomás solidified his place in bullfighting history not just for the five bulls he killed, but for the one he saved, a behemoth named, ironically, Ungrateful.

The Ordóñez family is one of the two most famous bullfighting families in Spanish history.

Over the years Simont has illustrated a variety of subjects for us, including motor sports (I still happily remember the girl in the towering straw hat in his drawings of Nassau's race week), football, bullfighting, dog racing and golf, but the greatest part of his work for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has been in and around baseball.

«Italian soccer is the bloodiest sport outside of bullfighting,» says Brian Glanville, the London Times expert, who was in Rome during Chinaglia's great years.

In San Francisco, aficionados of the ancient and bloody art of bullfighting who find themselves hankering for the sights and sounds of the bull ring can find satisfaction of a sort no farther away than Broadway, in the picturesque El Matador bar, which is owned and operated by sometime matador and eminently prolific writer on bullfighting lore Barnaby ConraIn San Francisco, aficionados of the ancient and bloody art of bullfighting who find themselves hankering for the sights and sounds of the bull ring can find satisfaction of a sort no farther away than Broadway, in the picturesque El Matador bar, which is owned and operated by sometime matador and eminently prolific writer on bullfighting lore Barnaby Conrain the picturesque El Matador bar, which is owned and operated by sometime matador and eminently prolific writer on bullfighting lore Barnaby Conrad.

Bullfighting takes place in only 10 % of the French national territory.

His highlights from that tenure included covering the death of Hugo Chavez and the unraveling that followed under President Maduro; a story on the busty mannequins manufactured in Venezuela to match the local obsession with plastic surgery; a story on the Yawar fiesta, an annual celebration in a few remote Andean towns in Peru where a condor is tied to the back of a bull for a ritual bullfight; and, ah yes, the great secret service prostitution scandal from President Obama's visit to Colombia, in which he was the only reporter to find and interview the two hookers at the center of the scandal.

Despite coming from a country where bullfighting and fur wearing are the norm, she agreed to feature in PETA's 2012 anti-fur campaign, appearing on huge billboards in New York City just in time for fashion week there.

There's a robot bullfight at the county fair, a series of underground Thunderdome - style bouts (with Anthony Mackie having fun in the Tina Turner role) and high - tech arena battles in front of big crowds.

John Cena lends his voice to the bull that is Ferdinand along with a cast of other animals voiced by many stars in which Ferdinand grows up on a bullfighting farm and is heckled for protecting flowers instead of being an aggressive bull.

We get the basics of Ferdinand's (voiced with genuine gentleness by John Cena) story, with his youth surrounded by other bulls who look forward to the «glory» of the bullfighting ring and his escape to an idyllic farm, where a young girl takes him in as her pet, and his winding up back where he started.

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Now he's competing with his childhood cohorts (Bobby Cannavale, Anthony Anderson and Peyton Manning, plus David Tennant as a Scottish Highland bull) for a spot in a big upcoming Madrid bullfight.

The LFE channel gets almost no workout that I could discern and the penultimate scene, in which a bullfight is superimposed over images of our hero Modine getting trapped on a beach (I know it), misses a good chance at some atmospherics and crowd effects.

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Automobili Lamborghini SpA is preparing to unveil the limited edition Centenario LP770 - 4 at the 2016 Geneva Auto Show, a special model to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the late Ferruccio Lamborghini who was born in 1916, back in 2013 the car company celebrated their 50th anniversary with an amazing road trip through Italy... but did you know 2016 also marks 50 years of Lamborghini model names being derived from bullfighting?

Replete with shootouts, daring escapes, and an unforgettable bullfight, El Paso brings to life a crucial moment in history and, in the process, becomes an indelible portrait of the American Southwest in the final days of the wild frontier.

Teen spy Alex Rider survives a bullfight, a high - speed bicycle chase through Amsterdam, and even being the target in a human video - game, in order to save the world - again.

Bloodless bullfighting is an event common in Portugal and has been introduced to Canada.

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Bloodless bullfighting may subject the animals to distress, harassment and pain, both in training and in the actual fight, to encourage a higher level of aggression in the bulls.

Despite the preponderance of evidence that much of Spain no longer supports bullfighting, if it ever did, and that the pro — bullfighting position of the Popular Party does not represent the Spanish people, one of the most prominent, accomplished, and justly respected longtime animal advocates in Oklahoma responded to the ANIMALS 24 - 7 coverage by recommending a boycotting of all Spanish trade and tourism.

Tudela's St Anne's festival, one of the most important events in the city, includes lively street music, and bullfights.