Sentences with phrase «often beaten to death»

The embellishment held, as articulated by another Register columnist, Chuck Offenburger, that Trice was «a great black player of another era — an era when blacks were often beaten to death, as Trice essentially was, because of his skin color.»

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They dispatched powerless individuals — often slaves — by cutting off their heads, beating them to death, or crushing them with canoes until they died.

Dr Parnia concluded: «This is significant, since it has often been assumed that experiences in relation to death are likely hallucinations or illusions, occurring either before the heart stops or after the heart has been successfully restarted, but not an experience corresponding with «real» events when the heart isn't beating.

Though not all refugee and asylum seeking children and adolescents are subjected to these circumstances, experiences often claimed to be encountered by them include the violent death of a parent, injury / torture towards a family member (s), witness of murder / massacre, terrorist attack (s), child - soldier activity, bombardments and shelling, detention, beatings and / or physical injury, disability inflicted by violence, sexual assault, disappearance of family members / friends, witness of parental fear and panic, famine, forcible eviction, separation and forced migration (Burnett & Peel, 2001; Davies & Webb, 2000).