Sentences with phrase «la guillotine»

Ever wonder about the history of the guillotine?

When companies come to Priest «a third come to us because the blade of the guillotine is at their neck,» he says.

And many believe Marie Antoinette clicked up to the guillotine in a pair of pumps.

As a result, they are the first to get the guillotine.

«We had a guillotine over our head,» says Stephen Anderson, an emergency medicine doctor at MultiCare Auburn Medical Center, which operates eight hospitals in and around Tacoma and Spokane, Washington.

Writing anything against the price rise in bitcoin is like keeping your head in a guillotine and expecting it to be unhurt.

Remember the diagonal cut of the guillotine?

Oh, Chris, perhaps if the church leaders in France hadn't been as corrupt as the monarchy, perhaps if priests and church officials hadn't been trying to stir up anti-revolutionary sentiments at home and abroad, those few who were guillotined may have been spared.

the guillotine?

Zmirak is right that the Church's opposition to «religious liberty» heated up during the eighteenth and nineteenth century — when «religious liberty» was being used to mean the guillotine, the abolition of the clergy, and the disenfranchisement of Church schools.

How would you like it if every hilltop in America had a 40 foot tall guillotine on the top?

I mentioned that people we guillotined and died in concentration camps for reasons not connected with religion.

People in France being guillotined for being thought of as being an «enemy of the revolution» whether proven or not.

Had these people been treated as Jesus and his «mythmeisters» noted in the NT, there would have been no guillotines or concentration camps.

And note those guillotined during the French Revolution and those Russians who died in concentration camps suffered these indignities as a direct result of the revolution of the peasants and poor abused by centuries of domination by religion - backed aristocracies.

The guillotine spoke to the French nobility.

Until now (and with the exception of one attempt, fortunately thwarted, against a church in Ivry), the fanatics had attacked aspects of the flattering self - image that we «citizens» have of ourselves: the iconoclastic insolence of Charlie Hebdo, the pagan cult of sport at the French National Stadium, the carefree pleasure of the Bataclan and the boho outdoor cafés of the Eleventh Arrondissement in Paris, the 14th of July fireworks in Nice celebrating a Revolution that has promoted great ideals but also the guillotine...

Also let's not forget the blood of thousands of guillotined bodies (all beheaded in one year, no less) on which the so - called «Enlightenment» piggy - backed in on.

After all, they mostly say that if you don't respond to his Grace by paying him back with gratitute, it's the guillotine!

I didn't just attack their view of grace, I also mentioned how even we FGers have a weak view of grace as well (rewards and guillotine).

One by one they are led to the guillotine, which is offstage.

Albert Camus's essay «Reflections on the Guillotine» cites a 19th - century French jurist's application of the law of probability to the chance of a judicial error with a result of one innocent man's being condemned in every 257 criminal cases.

He was guillotined by the French Directorate.

The guillotine?

So next time you go to church or see someone with a cross necklace, just envision a guillotine or some other outdated, barbaric torture device.

Can you imagine if Jesus was killed by say, the guillotine and churches all over the world propped up a guillotine in place of a cross, or people wore guillotines around their necks as jewelry.

Why not 12 guillotines?

He starts off with Turkish soldiers» impaling babies on bayonets before their mothers» eyes, then proceeds to a Genevan murderer who was reared a brute and, after his capture, is catechized so he can be guillotined in good conscience.

imo, the crucifix is the most horrible symbol ever conceived... it's about as «holy» as a guillotine, hand gun, or noose.

As the revolution mounted, the monarchy and the associated aristocracy were shattered and such of their representatives as escaped the guillotine fled to other countries.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff — Clare Boothe Luce

But the forces which had sent Louis XVI and his Queen to the guillotine and had introduced the first French republic could not be suppressed.

But one day hence will a one - party dictatorship or an all - powerful leader strike down these structures of freedom within the movement, like later Lenin crushing the soviets or Robespierre leading the chapter - societies to the guillotine?

Fast print speeds and an optional built - in guillotine - style cutter allow users to quickly and easily print and cut their short - run labels.

«That's a guillotine, Tenley,» he said, pointing to a hold one young man had on another.

Would some fans have called for Wenger to be guillotined?

THE GUILLOTINE!!!

Also, in defense Covington getting caught by Alves, very competent Nordine Taleb was also caught in a guillotine.

Both men had plenty of big spots for a normal match, but average for a main event over the first 10 minutes until Bryan put in the Yes Lock on a couple of occasions, as well as a guillotine choke, though Cena was able to break out.

That begins when Steed Lobotzke gets the professional guillotine and goes somewhere else — a nepotism - free job he has to earn based on his merits, not his pathetic LOWF PR — to make friends and preach online on his own time.

Bring out the guillotine, I say!

Plus you've got to be careful shooting in on him, he's got a bunch guillotine / anaconda choke wins.

I can respect that, Mendes may still wonder why he rolled for that guillotine at 189.

And I agree that Alves has an exceptional guillotine.

He came into that fight 9 - 0 as a professional with 6 of those wins coming by submission and 5 of those submissions being by Guillotine — How did Colby not see that coming?

But I didn't think it was a case of Colby losing focus for a second — it seemed like he wasn't applying much caution / respecting Alves as a guillotine threat to begin with.

Wasn't so much that Covington got finished in the first round the first time he fought somebody who wasn't either really green or really old (ok, I admit that was fun to type) It's that guillotine choking wrestlers was Alves's thing.

Getting caught in guillotines?

He did not get finished by punches he fell into a guillotine which I was surprised he did not get out.

The Guillotine.