Sentences with phrase «maiming of»

Every book has one positive ending, and one or more horrific endings sometimes resulting in the horrific maiming of the characters involved.

I am not downplaying even the death or maiming of a single person.

Katla's beauty and her prayer beads set her apart from the other thralls and draw the unwanted attentions of the master's son, which leads to the maiming of Katla and birth of her unwanted daughter Bibrau, the second voice of the tale.

The world recession has made this suspenseful film bitingly relevant beyond the local problems of the maiming of «The Celtic Tiger.»

The package, bulky, and with no return address, set off alarm bells with university authorities, who are on the alert for suspicious packages following the recent maiming of two science professors by letter bombs.

We've seen many such unfortunate incidents, and these unfortunate incidents that have led to the loss of lives and maiming of innocent police officers such as Chief Inspector Emmanuel Kwaku Ashilevi are of grave concern to the President and the Government of Ghana.

Describing the cause of the incident as trivial, the state helmsman expressed displeasure over the escalation of the incidence that later snowballed into killing and maiming of innocent people.

During the peaceful demonstration, Governor Chime used security agents to go brutal against the students, thereby killing and maiming some of them in the process.

A statement spelling out the conditions of the Shiite movement and signed by Ibrahim Musa, President Forum of the Islamic movement said, «While the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) has called for the setting up of an impartial and independent Judicial Commission of Inquiry made up of independent persons and members of the international human rights community to unravel the circumstances that led to the pogrom in Zaria and its environs, it believes that the events of December 12, 2015 that led to the massacre of its members, the maiming of hundreds, the detention of its cadres and destruction of its properties are premeditated and that the Federal and Kaduna State Government are in a face saving measure regarding the gross human rights violations that it deliberately perpetrated.

«We strongly condemn the killings, rape, abductions and maiming of our people in vilnerable communities in recent past, especially the killings on April 25th at Nimbo Community of Uzo - Uwani LGA that claimed several lives.

Captain Koda is notorious for leading the torturing and maiming of civilians during the AFRC / PNDC military government and was instrumental in the military Coup d'état in the late 1970s that ousted the then civilian government of Dr. Hilla Limann.

«It is sad to note that some killing and maiming of operatives, including those from sister agencies is very worrisome.

Killing and maiming of Christians, abductions of people all over the place.»

We see horrific glimpses of the damage done to victims, ranging from the murder of PR executive Thomas Mosser to the maiming of Yale professor (and First Things author) David Gelernter.

Between 1945 and the late 1980s, the United States militarily intervened more than 200 times into the internal, sovereign affairs of well over 100 «third world» countries, causing directly or indirectly the murders of 20 - 25 million human beings and the maimings of at least that many».

Not a cheery - beery topic, but the sobering fact is that because of misleading propaganda put out by the pit bull advocacy movement and Rottweiler fans, pit bulls are growing in popularity as pets; as a result, maimings of humans by pit bulls in North America have gone from 35 in 1992 to 184 in the first six months of 2013 (equal to all of 2012).

Not exact matches

The message to Syrians living in opposition - controlled areas, Hof added, would be the same as it always has been: «So long as we kill you, maim you, terrorize you, and drive you from your homes with ordnance that is not chemical in nature, that which is left of a hollowed - out West will do nothing to protect you.

The latest title in the «Metal Gear» series will offer a variety of open worlds to sneak around in, avoiding and maiming enemy guards as you travel.

A Case Farms Processing Inc. facility in Ohio sounds like one of the worst workplaces imaginable, firing two employees after being maimed.

In Texas, it was not a sense of guilt over paying money to watch majestic orca whales prevented from swimming freely at sea because they're forced to perform tricks in comparatively small enclosures at the behest of misguided trainers who could very well be maimed when SeaWorld's whales are eventually driven insane by the hopelessness of their situation that kept audiences away earlier this year.

«This is just the latest in a series of the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime, notwithstanding their use on more than 50 occasions of chlorine bombs and cluster bombs and other types of weapons that are intended to maim and kill in the most horrific ways.

An attorney seeking a seat in the Florida Legislature represents plastic surgery centers where patients have been maimed and killed as a result of botched cosmetic procedures.

The extreme version of it like Salafis, Deobandis and Wahabbis does interpret to run non believers through sword or maim through suicide bombers like happening now.

From a human point of view it seems ridiculous that a human being could torture, maim, and kill others relentlessly during her lifetime or that he could sexually abuse child after child with no remorse and then upon a sincere deathbed confession of Jesus Christ as Savior, be granted eternal life, no questions asked.

It gives licenses to kills, maim and subjugate and that appeals to the core of human nature.

Assume not everyone who dies in a catastrophe (an earthquake) desreved to die horribly or to be maimed for life (Billy Graham likes to skirt around this with his ludicrous we're paying for the sins of our ancestors... even though Jesus for our sins).

As usual, most of the wars, killing, maiming, torturing and sorrow has been in the name of religion.

They can obviously live without us, but we need many kinds of them for us to survive & flourish; and they also maim and kill us.

Instead of inviting our friends, kinfolk or rich neighbors, we are to invite «the poor, the maimed, the lame and the blind.»

On the shores of the Sea of Galilee the lame, the maimed, the blind, the dumb, and many other diseased people are healed by Jesus (Matt.

And the Christians, killed tortured and maimed thousands of people who would rather die than convert, or questioned any of the «word of God «or the churches devoted to «Him».

Contrast the alleged actions of this alleged Coptic Christian with that of Muslims killing and maiming Coptic Christians and blowing up their places of worship... INSULTING Coptic Christians in far worse ways (literally «insulting» them TO DEATH) than is done (or ever could be) in this or any other film.

«It is better for you to enter life maimed...» Jesus was possessed of a ferocious righteousness that, frankly, leaves us appalled.

The third is that it is utterly incomprehensible to me how you can tout a deity as the be-all-end-all and it can come up with no other way of dealing with issues other than to smash, kill, maim, destroy.

They believe in a god who is going to kill / maim and destroy most of humanity, because they can not reconcile the concept of a god who is fully capable of accomplishing his will: to be the saviour of all humanity, because that would mean accepting the reconciliation of those they consider evil.

We civilized men... do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of everyone to the last moment....

We consign to oblivion the maimed, the disfigured and the decrepit because we have already condemned to oblivion a portion of ourselves.

The hard thing would be to manage these efforts without maiming art, treading on human rights, and repeating all the imbalances of some past reformations of manners.

Time for believers, especially of the Christian sort, to get off this notion that not believing in their deity is a mandate to rob, steal, maim and kill.

Moreover, I believe in its truth; I consider the fact that it contains in its ranks a great number of sinners, of «the maimed, and the halt, and the blind», to be evidence of this truths But this does not cause me to believe that the eager multitude crying out today for guidance is in search of any Shepherd other than He who has already brought it bread.

The best accounts estimate that some 610,000 died — 360,000 in the service of the Union and 250,000 in the service of the Confederate States of America — with countless thousands of others maimed, dismembered or less severely wounded.

ScottK: So what you are saying is that since the Jews prohibited their people from following the tradition of the Ammonites (burning their children as a sacrifice to their god Molech) that somehow lets people like Bin Laden off the hook for killing, burning and maiming thousands of innocent people?

I can, of course, trick you into a choice by false promises, or intimidate you into it by threats; I can even apply physical force if you do not do as I wish, and imprison, maim, or kill you.

That's what makes people like Osama binLaden so heinous... they kill and maim in the name of God, and that is sickening.

Devout religious people are more than willing to go out and kill and maim in the name of their god and religion.

We get hurt sometimes for sure (and I'll add my name to the list of people who've been maimed by organized church).

Innocence of the ghastly conditions of their particular human crisis - grinding poverty, economic slavery, disease; malnutrition that stunts the development of the brain and maims intelligence; thwarted, inhibited stature, physical and psychological shockingly premature death - innocence of this awful truth is at a furious pace giving way to a new consciousness and conscience, to conscientization.

The ultimate loyalty of the religious socialist will be to God, who alone brings peace and justice and bread to the «halt and the maimed» by becoming one with them — which is the ultimate blasphemy.

In that city he encounters a «vast wheedling, suppurating army of the halt and the maimed.

So infanticide, revenge, murder, maiming and even massacre are all part of the sprawling plot, but in a genre - challenging twist, justice is rarely served.