Sentences with phrase «millions of corpses»

It's amazing how «logical» you sound when you defend your own faith... that has had quite a violent history and has left millions of corpses in its path!

You justify your animosity in the name of your faith, just as you justify our silencing on the bed of millions upon millions of corpses «silenced» in the name of religion before us.

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But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

Saying NYC wants «more rat corpses,» Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a $ 32 million assault on the most problematic rat strongholds — parts of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood and along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx — and promised to reduce the number of rats in those areas by 70 percent by the end of next year.

Saying the city wanted «more rat corpses,» he declared a $ 32 million assault on the most problematic rat strongholds — parts of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood and along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx — and promised to reduce the number of rats in those areas by 70 percent by the end of next year.

Although the ground is littered with lots of bullet - riddled corpses and one badly - wounded Mexican, the intrepid Vietnam veteran wanders rights into the crime scene and pokes around, finding a pickup packed with heroin and a suitcase containing two million dollars.

Out hunting deer in the desert down by the Mexican border, Vietnam veteran Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) happens on a heap of carnage: torn - apart trucks, corpses of men and dogs, the bloody bodies of others who'd be better off dead, and a case packed with cash: about $ 2 million.

Forces makes me a feel like I'm a million years old, like Saturn in his dotage, munching on the corpses of his offspring.

**** The rampant slaughter of millions of birds and bats — including rare, endangered and majestic species, like America's iconic bald and golden eagles — is one of the many «inconvenient» facts that moves the wind industry to lie like fury and — when the corpses can no longer be hidden and the lying fails -LSB-...]