Sentence examples for Sacrificed from inspiring English sources

Cantona will be sacrificed in the name of preserving the values of our national game.

As Curtis's career progressed, his marriage to Leigh – who had sacrificed her work for him and their children, Jamie Lee and Kelly – began to disintegrate.

The goodwill that they traditionally enjoyed had been sacrificed – as had the chances of winning an entirely justified dispute – by the NUM's indefensible decision not to ballot its members before the strike began.

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Guardian Australia was told the mothers believed that if they sacrificed themselves, their children would have a better chance of being resettled in Australia.

Ashdown and his group publicly deny the parades commission has been sacrificed as part of a bigger game at Stormont.

It would have damaged the constitution and parliament, so the broadcasters were sacrificed instead.

3) Accept that the university is a community made up of all those who serve it, not your plaything; nobody can be sacrificed in your name.

They felt history was being rewritten and the name of the RUC was being sacrificed for political expediency and were keen to give their account.

He needs the Arab votes and it could be that to this end, Israel will have to be sacrificed".

These courageous workers sacrificed their careers, frightened their families, sometimes suffered personal destruction, to say that there was something deeply wrong.