Sentences with phrase «slaughter of»

The first involves the graphic slaughter of a pig, which seems designed to discomfort the audience as much as it does Jude (Christopher Eccleston).

Cue elder sister Kailee (Karen Gillan), who wastes no time reconnecting with her brother and attempting to puncture years of psychiatric reasoning to convince him that the long - ago slaughter of their parents was not his fault.

But the slaughter of the tribe, by gunfire, from the cavalry, it left a bitter taste in my mouth,» he said, continuing: «The Indians have really been victims of a genocide.

These are the terms of Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone), a British import obstinate about ousting fetid felons like Arthur (who orchestrated the slaughter of a family close to the Stanleys) and shielding from brutality his wife Martha (Emily Watson, savagely sexualized even within their relatively tame town).

Dressed in a series of flamboyant dresses and powdered wigs, Effie's a caricature of Panem's elite; whilst endorsing the slaughter of innocent children, she's more concerned with day - to - day manners.

This occurrence is the wholesale slaughter of entire families.

Yes, a 3 - D cartoon about martial - arts animals is actually riffing on the Gospel story of the slaughter of the innocents.

Bainbridge thoughtfully balances old war stories from the star names with archive footage and interviews that provide a substantial historical context that stretches from the shocking slaughter of ghost dancers at the Battle of Wounded Knee to the legacy of genocide, oppression and violence that has shaped Native American lives.

The other significant character is Rosalie Quaid (Rosamund Pike), who witnesses the cold - blooded slaughter of her husband and three daughters by a gang of Comanche (One of Yellow Hawk's more significant lines of dialogue has him condemning that tribe, simply to give us the good / bad dichotomy in words).

A young man, who, as a child witnessed the slaughter of his family, teams with a mysterious gunfighter to avenge their deaths.

Known for his astounding feats of architecture, and more infamously for the slaughter of innocent children in the town of Bethlehem,

Louie Psihoyos, the film's director, describes Racing Extinction as an eco-thriller, similar to his previous Academy Award winning doc, The Cove, which followed the mass slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan.

The fearless and inquisitive host unmasks the cold - blooded motives behind the wholesale slaughter of these animals, turning these documentaries into exciting eco-thrillers.

The slaughter of the buffalo populations in the western United States is used to corral Native Americans into reservations.

The analogy: consider Starcraft... say a player manages to expand to 5 bases and keeps his opponent on only 2 bases by out manouvering him and generally out playing him; that match would probably descend into a killfest slaughter of every remaining asset the 2 base player had until he surrended or died completely.

And I love knowing my food now comes from the earth and doesn't involve the suffering or slaughter of any animals.

Why is it that vegetarians consume dairy and eggs when they are ethically against the slaughter of animals for human consumption?

Since then we have helped publicize the slaughter of northern Rockies wolves, as part of a long - term strategy to pressure Congress to rescind the harmful rider, and filed a lawsuit that was successful in restoring «endangered» protections to wolves in Wyoming, where the 2011 rider does not apply.

Within the past week, Thailand officials seized seven tons of ivory, representing the slaughter of hundreds of African elephants for illegal trade.

A tourist boycott might curtail this senseless slaughter of migrating birds.

Despite spending millions of dollars, WWF was unable to stop the slaughter of elephants there: at least 16,600 elephants were lost between 2004 and 2012, mainly to cross-border poachers.

The 100 rhinos were moved to unspecified neighboring states as part of efforts to stem the illicit slaughter of the animals for their horns

It is time for a global awareness campaign to alert us all to the ways we encourage the slaughter of endangered animals, the dubious trade in scarce natural resources and the terrorisation of vulnerable people.

We are living in an era with one of the greatest extinction rates in recorded history, which began with wholesale slaughter of entire species for food and has progressed as we have dismembered a large part of what was the dominant incubator of life on earth, the rain forests.

The agreement was reached to stem the slaughter of the herds, whose numbers had dropped from 1.3 million in 1979 to just over 600,000 in 1989.

As poachers kill off males with the largest tusks, elephants with shorter tusks — younger males and females — become more frequent targets.regions may even exceed the slaughter of the late 1970s.

He said it would bring the herd closer to a population target of 3,000 to 3,500 and lessen the public outcry tied to slaughter of wayward buffalo.

In the UK, Emily Williamson and Eliza Phillips, both opposed to the slaughter of birds for feathers to adorn women's hats, combined their fledgling organisations in 1891, leading to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

«And they hated the mass slaughter of the foot and mouth outbreak in 2001 in the UK,» he adds, referring to the policy used instead of vaccines to control the disease.

The industrial - scale slaughter of the first world war is often blamed on a clash of 19th - century tactics and 20th - century weapons, including tanks, aircraft, modern artillery and machine guns.

The annual slaughter of cattle with bovine TB soared from 6000 in 1998 to 34,000 in 2011 and farmers have long argued that badgers are at least partly responsible.

One is foot - and - mouth disease, which broke out this past February on English farms in Cumbria and Devon, leading to a prophylactic mass slaughter of cows and sheep throughout Britain and France.

King Herod the Great, infamous in the New Testament for ordering the slaughter of infants, built the monumental temple and other grandiosities in the city of Caesarea, Israel, as a sign of his fidelity to Rome — but the temple had been lost until now.

In doing so, the hornet marks the colony with an odour that attracts more hornets, leading to the slaughter of thousands of bees.

Ordinances governing the slaughter of backyard chickens occur in only half of municipalities in Colorado, and many are vague, researchers found.

Genetic evidence could prove key in halting the illegal slaughter of Africa's elephants for their ivory tusks

Such wholesale slaughter would have been unusual, she says, particularly the slaughter of cows, which were typically considered too valuable to kill because of milk production and plowing.

The illegal slaughter of African elephants for ivory is now worse than it was at its peak in the 1980s.

Nevertheless, it appears that the whale population was once vastly bigger than we thought, and that our slaughter of them was more thorough than history records (see «Lost leviathans: Hunting the world's missing whales»).

Over the past 8 months, they've endured vaccine shortages, lurid media stories, and the occasional slaughter of innocent monkeys.

All the polling now points to a May defeat for the AV campaign and a slaughter of Liberal Democrat councillors.

Even amid 2014's unholy bloodbath for Democrats nationwide, Gibson's 30 - point slaughter of challenger Sean Eldridge was particularly gruesome.

All the signs are there for an econoic meltdown - falling retail sales, a slaughter of public sector jobs, a tidal wave of construction industry job loses about to break, it will be Eire Take II by the autumn and the coalition will go the way of Fianna Fail.

He wrote: «All Christians who campaign for a 2nd term for Buhari who's done nothing concrete to stop slaughter of Christian communities by his radical Muslim Fulani herdsmen brethren may get a useless post from him but will one day answer before a righteous God for their betrayal of Christ!»

In a statement released in the midst of the worst bombing, the Hawkins - Jones campaign declared, «We denounce Israel's ongoing slaughter of the people of Gaza... As governor and lieutenant governor of New York State, we can — and will — support the efforts to Boycott, Sanction and Divest from Israeli firms.

For nearly 40 years, Riverkeeper has argued that Indian Point's slaughter of fish and other river life — more than 1 billion organisms a year — is illegal.

Tony Blair gave Kazakhstan's autocratic president advice on how to manage his image after the slaughter of unarmed civilians protesting against his regime.

He did not condemn the wholesale slaughter of the innocent Christian indegenous populations, including women and children, in Plateau state, Benue state, Southern Kaduna, Kebbi state, Borno state, Adamawa state and elsewhere in the north by Janjaweed - like Fulani militants.

He never condemned the slaughter of thousands of Christians (including clerics) and hundreds of Shiite Muslims in the north.

But the paradox is that, in modern sophisticated societies, people are separated and divorced from both farming practices and the slaughter of the animals they consume.