Sentence examples for For bullfighting from inspiring English sources
This was despite the fact that a 2013 Ipsos Mori poll showed that most Spaniards do not approve of public funds being used for bullfighting, that 75 per cent have not attended a bullfight in the past five years, and only 29 per cent were in favour of it.
The new government of Alicante said it plans to do away with subsidies destined for bullfighting and ban municipal land from being used in bullfights by 2017, while in nearby Alzira, the new leftist council began its term in council by ending the bull run introduced by the conservative People's party seven years earlier.
Alexander Fiske-Hauthorn, authof of Into the Arena: The World of the Spanish Bullfight, argued in a February speech that bulls raised for bullfighting have, on the whole, far better lives than most cattle raised for meat.
But also for bullying and for bullfighting.
These include The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1970), which cloaks Gala's dislike for bullfighting in oblique imagery.
Some of the games are based on local tastes: soccer for Argentina and Britain, bullfighting for Spain, but most are simple puzzles of the sort played around the world.
Not for decades has a matador captured the imagination of bullfight fans like this enigmatic and reclusive man, acclaimed as the saviour of bullfighting for the new dose of glamour he has brought to this most controversial and, some say, anachronistic of sports.
The transformation of the Las Arenas bullring will signal the end, once and for all, of bullfighting in the ring beside the city's Plaza de Espana and will allow the city's residents to indulge themselves in more universally acceptable, if less passionate or gory, pastimes such as eating, jogging or watching films.
The plans for the course have come at a difficult time for Spanish bullfighting.
"The big loser in all of this is the bullfight," said Luis Corrales, president of the Platform for the Defense of Bullfighting, who said conceding an arts prize to bullfighters reinforced the claim that the tradition was, indeed, an art.
