Sentences with phrase «immolation on»

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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

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?

When fulsome credits are attributed to the transcendent, my mind goes to a newspaper item describing a young student's self - immolation, According to the report, she set herself on fire to experience death and the world of spirits beyond — i.e., the transcendent.

Religion News Service: Tibetans have «sacred duty» to support self - immolations As the 18th congress of China's Communist Party began in Beijing this week, six more Tibetans set themselves on fire as Tibetan leaders say they are powerless to stop a growing wave of self - immolations.

Nevertheless, besides the issue of natural justice, I think that desire is defined as something that is considered to have a so - called positive outcome, so I would think that on a personal level self - immolation has no personal desire (unless «fame» and / or desire to die are there) and it is surely painful to the person self - immolating (unlike e.g. self - explosion), and the thing being probably considered by individual persons as social sacrifice.

Reuters: Dalai Lama presses China to investigate Tibetan self - immolations Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday urged Japanese parliamentarians to visit Tibet, and for China to investigate the dozens of self - immolations by Tibetans.

Congrats on your self - immolation, Anthony.

Her hold on the establishment has only been strengthened by the self - immolation of Anthony Weiner, who was in a strong position to contend in 2013 and who was popular among real - estate types because, in Tighe's words, «He seemed like one of the guys.

The tired device of slow motion for recording a death, on the other hand, is used well and sparingly, and is particularly effective in the immolation of Bigelow and Lorrie.

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.

Soon Caroline happens upon a bunch of mutilated baby dolls and mirrors (see also: Walter Salles's similar - in - so - many - other - ways - too Dark Water), learns the story of how an old black servant couple (Mama Cecille (Jeryl Prescott) and Papa Justify (Ronald McCall)-RRB- were lynched and set on fire for teaching their white master's children the dark arts, and then discovers that Papa Justify, before his untimely immolation, had figured out the secret to eternal life by «borrowing» years from other people.

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.

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.

Two years after the devastating fire on his Florida property, Rosenquist completes the painting The Geometry of Fire (2011), a meditation on the destruction; «The title is ultimately nondescriptive, because there is no such thing as geometry in fire, it's just wild, totally reckless, an accidental illumination an immolation.

Now activist scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber has released a book that insists we're on track for self - immolation.