Sentences with word «immolation»

Nominees include the above mentioned surprising slump in indie sales, the not surprising shrinking revenues at the major publishing houses, the also not surprising continued self immolation of Barnes & Noble, and my winner... The impressive (and frightening) maturation of Amazon as a media conglomerate.

With undeveloped action sequences, slotted caricatures of Asian mobsters, and a tiresome and predictable Liotta further driving nails into its coffin, Revolver is a spectacular, gaudy trainwreck that serves as a punctuation mark on one of the goriest career immolations in recent memory.

Communism without the constant threat of immolation by the US never had a chance to develop so that we could see if it could work.

----------------------- with Copenhagen meetings starting in less then 100 days, some climate activists are now planning a dramatic self - immolation protest in front of the UN bulding in NYC before the summit opens, with 5 people appearing to set themselves on fire to protest the world's inaction on all this.

(CNN)-- Stephen Prothero tells CNN's Suzanne Malveaux that the Dalai Lama should condemn immolation by Tibetans.

The locomotives selected for immolation weighed 35 tons each.

If the standards survive immolation on the altar of politics, they could face the slower death of bad implementation.

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At that time, Southwest States were battling with the high rate of immolation while some Southeast people considered having baby factory as a profitable business and majority of Ijaw youths as at then seeing kidnapping and oil theft as sources of income.

I see Jeff's Dance Dance Counter-Revolution, and raise him one Dance Dance Immolation (read the Wired description of playing it).

While it rarely makes headlines abroad, the Falun Gong situation is extremely controversial within China and the Chinese diaspora, and the 2001 self - immolation case has been no different — many have suggested that the Chinese government may have actually played a role in the high - profile protest in a bid to discredit Falun Gong.

Tibetans - in - exile hold a candlelight vigil following the self - immolation attempt by a monk in Kathmandu on February 13, 2013.

Self - immolation began as a form of protest among Tibetans in China in February 2009, when a young monk set himself ablaze.

(CNN)- China Daily, an English - language newspaper and a mouthpiece of the Chinese government, last week published an article called «Western Voices Question Tibetan Self - Immolation Acts.»

(CNN)-- In a crass display of moral blindsight, Stephen Prothero's blog post on Tibetan self - immolations blames the victim instead of the bully.

But in the annals of this sort of charity we find fantastic excesses of devotion recorded which are only explicable by the frenzy of self - immolation simultaneously aroused.

Today's bride of humble station, whose father can not afford to go on paying dowry, chances immolation in her husband's home, where she may be set alight by his mother in order to obtain for her son a new wife with yet another dowry.

I would have sacrificed everything in an unholy immolation and lost my own happiness forever.

Stating that those who seek to diminish Aregbesola's achievements are only a self - immolation mission, the Bureau said PDP's inability to comprehend the Aregbesola program of changing the fortune of education in the state could only help to sink the party into its abyss of extinction.

The mill turns out to have an unsavory past with mercury poisoning that eerily echoes an earlier conquistador - era tragedy involving child immolation.

The five chapters follow five phases in their lives, as the boy grows up, fails to resist temptation, suffers and finally learns a bit about life, with some sex and self - immolation along the way.

The chameleon Rango (voice of Johnny Depp), who takes on the moniker after noticing a «Made in Durango» etching on a glass full of what can only be dubbed firewater (making for an extended bit of unintentional immolation for the cigar - smoker sitting next to him), finds his own sanctuary from birds of prey, unforgiving sunlight, and the seemingly rambling words of the Spirit of the West from an armadillo (voice of Alfred Molina) who's half - flattened from speeding traffic.

He has only 10 seconds of self - immolation before burning out.

There's also some really great exotic armour, depending on what class your main character is, but above all of it you should be keen to purchase Immolation fists.

Each weapon can also be equipped with amps once you've used it long enough to hit level 2, granting special powers like immolation, stun, or even a chance to turn a projectile into a TNTTeddy.

Are these paintings possibly pictorial immolations of content?

Rigdol's enormous «My World is in your Blind - spot,» made of five panels six - by - six - feet each, references the more than 100 self - immolations inside Tibet, as well as what Rigdol has called the «degradation» of the Tibetan language.

The first of the voices quoted was mine — for a Belief Blog piece I wrote last summer criticizing the Dalai Lama for averting his gaze from the spate of self - immolations protesting Chinese rule in Tibet.

Since then, there has been a wave of self - immolations in Algeria, Egypt, Pakistan, Punjab and elsewhere, by people who feel that they have no voice to counter what they have alternatively described as «injustice, oppression and lack of equality,» or «poverty, corruption and unemployment.»

It would though have involved considerably more effort on the part of the designers to create the circumstances for inflicting self - immolation on their own sales figures.

With humor and cynicism, Lamdark's conceptual disco mocks the Chinese cultural invasion of Tibet, while graphically commenting on the tragic self - immolation of Tibetan monks in response to their oppression.

«No amount of thunderstorms, police chases, government shutdowns or self immolations could keep us from having the best party of our lives.»

You see, Hao and Chen were injured during a 2001 self - immolation protest when they were part of the spiritual movement Falun Gong, banned in China since 1999.

Tibetans at a protest in Taipei in 2011 display portraits of people who killed themselves by self - immolation.

As he finds the self - oblation and self - immolation of Christ in the Mass, he knows that «in the likeness of Christ, he has to give himself, body and soul, to be «bread broken for you» in the ministry of Christ.»

In my post, I wrote of an «epidemic of self - immolations,» noting that from mid-March to mid-July 2011 more than 40 Tibetans had set themselves on fire to protest the Chinese occupation of Tibet.

Today, Tibet is witnessing an epidemic of self - immolations.

Sacrifice doesn't necessarily involve the killing of a victim - the technical term for that is «immolation».

Therefore, Christ's sacrifice is also one of immolation, of pain, suffering and death.

All that to say, David, I am not so sure Trump is self - defecating, as much as performing self - immolation.

CNN: My Take: Dalai Lama should condemn Tibetan self - immolations Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» explains why he believes the Dalai Lama should abandon his position of neutrality on the «epidemic of self - immolations» going on in Tibet.

Will there be a follow - up on why Moslems treat others they way they do — you know, the beheadings, immolation, and so on?

William Carey, for instance, braved personal danger to express his resistance to the Hindu practice of sati (the immolation of widows at the funeral pyres of their husbands) at the very places in which these were being carried out.

It was known to the FBI that David Koresh was religiously committed and fully capable of fulfilling an apocalyptic vision of self - immolation.