Sentences with phrase «of corpses at»

With broken mirrors scattered over the figure like bruises or bullet wounds, the figures look like chalk outlines of corpses at crime scenes.

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.

Not exact matches

A Copenhagen court on Wednesday convicted Madsen of murdering Wall, sexual assault without intercourse for the stabbing of Wall's genitals, and violating her corpse, tweeted Julie Thomsen, a reporter at the trial.

At around 10:20 am on Monday morning, a college student in Brooklyn walking along the shore of Sheepshead Bay made a grisly discovery: A human corpse with its feet encased in a block of concrete.

My friend's mother was present at the time of the shooting, and bullet wounds could be seen in the corpses — and were indeed displayed to Western journalists.

Dassey was convicted of first - degree homicide, second - degree sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse following the death of Teresa Halbach in 2005 and sentenced to life with no parole for 41 years — he was just 17 at the time.

at what part in the Bible does the dismemberment of a corpse and taking its heart as a sacred relic exist?

Oden also has a curious habit of including excerpts whose only distinction is that they contain somewhat involved metaphors — a journey from Peking to Canton, one thief accusing another to the police, a merchant momentarily given false hope as he watches his ship founder at sea, an emperor choosing a day - laborer as his son - in - law, the difference in value between a pound of gold and a pound of feathers, a corpse still able to perform some of the functions of a living body — as if such metaphors were intrinsically humorous.

Rationists stand looking at the stinking corpse of human Reason and place a crown on its head.

My understanding is that Jesus spoke to the spirit / soul of Lazarus which would be the animating principle of his life, which re-entered his corpse — at this point «he» came to life.

The idea alarmed me, like the idea of kissing a crucifix on Good Friday or viewing a corpse at a wake.

Only at our death would any such statement have meaning; and when it did, the meaning would be that of a corpse, something indeed finished because «done for».

And he is at pains to fulfil it deliberately and systematically in detail by ordering his officer to take the corpse of Joram and throw it in the field of Naboth, since Elijah had declared that this field would be the place where vengeance was executed.

At this time of the crisis in Alyosha's life, when he was trying to face the fact of the decomposition of Zossima's corpse, Dostoevsky tells us both that Alyosha's faith was strong and that it was unsophisticated and inadequately trained (pp. 396 - 97).

Others point to the widespread belief that the soul was thought to remain near the corpse for three days before departing to the underworld at the expiry of that time.

There could be no doubt about it: The two twin horrors of Soviet power, Marxism - Leninism at home and expansion abroad, were corpses, irrecoverably dead.

And at a much cheaper price than if we did it with explosives and bullet ridden corpses of our young men and women.

The contrast even gets a bit Goofus and Gallant at times: Drunk Fascist volunteers to break the news of their daughters» death to the parents; Sensitive New - Age Cop vomits at the sight of a corpse.

He is more death - conscious than ever, thinking constantly of the corpses that stare up at him from the ground.

The Divyavadana tells us a temptation story of Ananda, who is blamed because — as the Cullavagga reports — he permitted women at the corpse of Buddha, who by their sorrow defiled the corpse.

Or Michael Keane, who had to spend at least one game this season trying to concentrate while the warmed over corpse of Paul Robinson — yes, that Paul Robinson — tended net behind him?

At this point, the only step is the resurrected corpse of Elvis Presley.

«At the time of writing this statement, no single corpse has been handed to the families of those killed.»

I am reminded of the story of one of my own acquaintances, while at Officer Candidate School (OCS) in Quantico, Virgina, where he watched his drill instructor touch the genitals on the corpse of a dead deer, laughing that it was a fellow officer candidate.

Tagbo died days ago after he reportedly hung out with the DMW boss who was accused of dumping the late bloke's corpse at the hospital and taking a dive.

Reacting to her, a twitter user by the name, YOUR DADDY's MAIN CHIC replied her saying, «You received the news of the mishap when it happened, Retweeted those who berated them, Didn't make any attempt to retrieve their corpses, Didn't have any representative at their burial on a foreign soil.

The corpses have been deposited at the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, for autopsy.

She said the corpse of the victim, Mrs Christianah Mark, 62, had been deposited at mortuary and that further investigation on the matter had begun.

The elder sister of the victim, Jolaade Oladipupo, said the family had to wait for about one hour at Ikeja before the corpse arrived.

He said Onukaba's «s corpse was later deposited at a mortuary in Akure from where it will be brought for burial today in his hometown, Ihima, Okehi Local Government area of Kogi State.

His corpse arrived for the lying - in - state at around 1:40 pm, accompanied by Governor Ayodele Fayose and the son of the deceased, former Governor Niyi Adebayo.

There's a giant industrial skip at the back of parliament with the corpses of dozens of would - be leaders... He's got that Old Etonian charm and what appears to be diffidence, which often masks quite ruthless ambition.

No amount of press releases or complaints to the BBC could get us to do more than glance at the corpse.

Angry youths who protested the killing set bonfire under the bridge while the corpse of the victim was at the scene at 7.30 a.m. when newsmen left the area.

Most of our understanding of graphic images - the pictures of decaying teeth and corpses in the morgue which are now slapped on fag packets - are that they affect you at first but you quickly learn to ignore them.

But I, nevertheless, perfectly appreciate why it was possible for the corpse of Capt. Zapata to have been kept on ice at the 37th Military Hospital for so long.

Thirty minutes later, false messages were sent out by the Taxi drivers Transport Union at Wuse alleging the enforcement team shot dead one of their driver whose corpse had been carried to Wuye.

Officers of the Nigerian Legion on Sunday arrested two men while attempting to exhume a corpse at Ado Odo / Ota local government area of Ogun state.

There was also a lying in state of Mama Awolowo's corpse at» Tribune's House» at Imalefalafia and her Okebola (Ibadan) family residence where various personalities also extolled her virtues.

He explained that his uncle, Julius Ntwangwa, who worked with the Benue State Agriculture and Rural Development Agency, was among those killed by the herdsmen, who dropped his corpse at the back of the house.

A pronouncement by the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, that the controversial Osugbo cult was just an association that should not have the power to hijack traditional rulers» corpses at death, has garnered support from some prominent Yoruba traditional rulers and subjects of the Ijebu monarch have equally sided with his decision.

Dr. Gajir Tsoho of the Department of Surgery, BSUTH, who spoke with newsmen, disclosed that over 30 victims of the attack were receiving treatment at the teaching Hospital with many corpses already deposited at the morgue of the hospital.

In January 2017, Oba Adetona had told a gathering of Christians and Muslim faithful at his palace that there was no custom or tradition in Ijebuland that supported the practice whereby corpses of traditional rulers were hijacked by traditional worshippers called the «Osugbos».

The Commissioner of Police, Mr Damian Chukwu, disclosed that five mutilated corpses of male suicide bombers were recovered and two Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) vests were diffused by men of the command at the scene of the attack.

According to a resident whose house was not far from the spot to which the corpse of the victim was found, the lifeless body was either murdered at the spot or dumped after killing.

He said that the corpse had been deposited at the morgue of Ladoke Akintola University hospital, Osogbo.

She said the corpse of the victim, Mrs. Christiana Mark, 62, had been deposited at mortuary and that further investigation on the matter had begun.

And the atmospheric pressure is only half a percent of what it is at sea level, threatening to shrivel cells into freeze - dried corpses.

Anesthesiologists have been at the forefront of questioning the finality of brain death and whether beating - heart cadavers truly are unfeeling, unaware corpses.

To test the technology, Tom Bruno at NIST created a rat graveyard in his lab, burying some of the little corpses in a few inches of soil and letting others rest in peace above - ground.