Sentences with phrase «hung on stakes»

they were hung on stakes (READ HISTORY BEFORE MAKING STUPID COMMENTS)!

Blandina was hung on a stake as food for wild beasts.

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Your picture indicates men hung on a cross, for your information the form of persecution used was hanging on and fastened to a stake, orginal greek stauros, change your picture.

A person was impaled on this stake, and hung there until they died.

If a person was hung from a gallows in that time, they were most often impaled on a stake or post.

English and Irish Derby winner GRUNDY, ridden by Pat Eddery, hung on for a half - a-length victory over Bustino in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot.

She wrestles to hang on to what she ultimately knows she can not, her daughter's personal development and another country's resource — both awakened to their own potential and staking a claim for what is perhaps rightfully theirs.

He also went door to door in his district, hung around at the local Starbucks talking one on one with voters, staked yard signs at the entrance to residential subdivisions, and attended homeowners» association meetings.

While the dietetic jury's hung on just where it ranks in the health stakes, it was recently found to be preferable to polyunsaturated soybean oil despite being saturated fat.

«Darkest Hour» is not doddering Prime Minister Churchill hanging onto power by his fingernails, but somewhat younger Churchill, who takes on the Nazi threat, knowing the fate of the western world is at stake.

The subversive use of humor feels like a distinguishing touch on its own — who else would have put the obligatory interspecies hang - out scene in a high - stakes casino straight out of a 1930s screwball comedy?

While the political discourse surrounding education too often seems hung up on the role of high - stakes testing or common core curriculum, many experts now are turning their attention toward ed tech, or the role of technology in expanding educational opportunity.

Between 1391 and 1448, in a town with a consistent population of around 8,000 souls, 46 alleged miscreants were hanged, 20 burned at the stake, 22 beheaded, 11 broken on the wheel, 17 buried alive (a specially favoured fate for women), and 13 tortured to death.»

too early, trying to hang on to a significant portion of my TRIB stake (with some tight risk control) could really offer some decent payback..!

So much hangs in the balance — the future of the Kyoto Protocol, the establishment of a Green Climate Fund, the launching of a new Technology Mechanism, a new Adaptation Committee, the founding principles of the Convention itself — and negotiators have so much at stake that they could really go either way on these issues.

Some poor crone or youthful beauty would be seized & tried as a witch, all because she rubbed a herb on a scratch to heal it, she'd be dunked in a pond until she either drowend or didn't, if she drowned she was innocent, if she survived, she would be hung or burned at the stake.

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