Sentences with phrase «of guillotine»

When most people think of the guillotine, they think of the bloody French Revolution of the late 18th century, but France continued use of the guillotine in capital punishment cases until it was retired in 1977.

Nigel bryan cook (Sep 28, 2013 at 10:56 AM): your proposals do seem a bit extreme, and use of the guillotine is a bit... well, French.

nbnbc (Sep 28, 2013 at 12:44 PM): my riposte was tongue - in - cheek, too — look up what the Halifax gibbet is... A precursor of the guillotine, but the same principle (though without the knitting).

Her 2007 Tate retrospective opened with a model of her parents» chateau, over which hung the blade of a guillotine.

Ian Hamilton Finlay's La Rèvolution est un Bloc, 1992 — a wooden block carved with the words of the title and a central aperture reminiscent of a guillotine's lunette — refers in content and form both to advances in secular democracy and social progress, and the bloodshed and unrest brought about by the French Revolution.

Grab the cash using your mouse, as it falls on the other side of a guillotine.

According to Clark, Resco recently expanded its nail care line to include a series of guillotine nail trimmers that come in anti-static candy colors like raspberry red, winner's circle purple and electric blue.

The sound of the pages turning resembles the sound of a guillotine blade falling.

The transmission is intuitive, the brakes perform with the finality of a guillotine, and the engine develops an incredible physical thrust.

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After being caught again by his old nemesis, a crimminal must decide whether it's more noble to die under the blade of the guillotine, or sacrifice himself to the Nazis and free 100 French hostages.

Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980) Qiu tian li de chun tian (Spring in Autumn, Bai Chen, 1985) Fantômas (Drame en cinq épisodes): À l'ombre de la guillotine (Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine, Louis Feuillade, 1913 - 4) The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942) Tih - Minh (Grand Ciné - Roman hebdomadaire en douze épisodes)(Louis Feuillade, 1918/9, 12 parts) Morir... dormir... tal vez soñar (To Die... To Sleep... Perchance to Dream Manuel Mur Oti, 1976) 20000 Leagues under the Sea (Richard Fleischer, 1954) The Boston Strangler (Richard Fleischer, 1968) Alphaville (Jean - Luc Godard, 1965) Augen der Liebe (The Eyes of Love, Alfred Braun, 1951) Heroes for Sale (William A. Wellman, 1933) Rio do Ouro (River of Gold, Paulo Rocha, 1998) Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown, 1926) Possessed (Clarence Brown, 1931) 10 Rillington Place (Richard Fleischer, 1971) A Woman Of Affairs (Clarence Brown, 1928) Fear (Roberto Rossellini, 1954) Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003) On The Town (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1949) Niño Nadie (José Luis Borau, 1996) Onna bakari no yoru (Girl of Dark / Girls of the Night, Tanaka Kinuyō, 1961) Christmas in July (Preston Sturges, 1940) Amdaeng Muen kab Nai Rid (Um - gang Muen kab nai Rid; Muen and Rid, Cherd Songsri, 1994) Bandido (Richard Fleischer, 1956) The Kiss Before the Mirror (James Whale, 1933) È primavera (It's Forever Springtime, Renato Castellani, 1950) The Lawless (Joseph Losey, 1950) Inspiration (Clarence Brown, 1931) Gigi (Vincente Minnelli, 1958)

Does Britain sever its relationship with Europe with one drop of the guillotine's blade, the «hard Brexit» favoured by the right?

Remember the diagonal cut 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.

Ever wonder about the history of 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.

Unfortunately, while Lau makes grand use of the Chinese landscape with some pleasing landscape photography, the rest of The Guillotines elements lack any real sharpness to speak of.

A popular British writer clears up myths and fallacies associated with the consort of the guillotined Louis XVI of France in this vivid, well - rounded biography.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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).

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.

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.

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 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?

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.

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.

So much so, in fact, that we might — as Walcott swiveled and poked home his second against Swansea, striking like a proper striker — have entertained the thought that this run of form, these goals, this latest positional tweak had finally brought down the guillotine on potential, had set Walcott free from himself.

Overeem dropped Miocic first, and some say he could / would have a UFC title by now if he had gone for some ground and pound while Stipe was knocked down instead of going for that guillotine...

Whether it's on the length of the terms, the system of election, the place of bishops in the second chamber or a myriad of other issues, the opposition will be able to offer the carrot of its support for a guillotine motion instantly ending the agony - if it gets its way.

The whole House will know that guillotine motions are always undesirable, although increasingly common in recent decades, but to ram through legislation of this significance in a day must be wrong.

Unlike the government, individual MPs aren't able to pass guillotine motions which limit the amount of time each amendment gets debated for.

The French solved the problem of huge inequality with guillotines.

The Conservatives would end the practice of «guillotining» pieces of legislation as they go through the Commons, increasing scrutiny of new laws.

The story is that, on January 19, when Amaechi appeared before the Senate Committee on Marine Transport, headed by Senator Ahmed Sani, to brief the Senate panel on the activities of the agencies under his supervision, he guillotined the university.

Former Ministry of Defence permanent secretary Sir Kevin Tebbit told the Chilcot inquiry Mr Brown had «guillotined» defence spending shortly after the 2003 invasion.

The Smiths, widely considered one of the greatest British bands of the 1980s, incoporated several songs about animal rights into their repertoire, but also featured several damning attacks on Conservatives, including Margaret on the Guillotine, a song imagining Margaret Thatcher's execution.

And yet this is the same government that passed an emergency budget that could put more than a million workers on the scrapheap, that jacks up a VAT that lands heaviest on those who are the most hard - up, that floats shrinking some public services by up to 40 % — that almost gleefully drops the guillotine of cuts on the necks of the poor.

There have also been suggestions that the MPs might vote down a guillotine motion designed to timetable a debate on the Lords bill, leading to interminable debates, similar to those that occurred at the time of the Maastricht bill.

Here's a tale of two cities for you: The villain is Mayor de Blasio, sentencing hundreds of minority, low - income schoolchildren to the educational guillotine.

Manual slicers are usually guillotine - style, or a long knife attached to a cutting board, sort of like a mandolin.

When we put the knife's release catch against the side of the whale, the knife popped in like a little guillotine by about 3 inches, so it could actually cut the blubber and get into the flesh to the embedded line.

Although the anti-monarchist protest was advertised as street theater, police were apparently not amused by the promised appearance of a working guillotine, and the benediction «May Royal Heads Roll!»

Yeah guillotine presses do emphasize the upper portion of the chest but can put the rotator cuff muscles in a compromising position.