Sentence examples for act of slaughtering from inspiring English sources

As directed by Deborah Warner, Ms. Shaw's Medea follows a relentless trajectory, personal despair leading to the act of slaughtering her children.

The act of slaughtering the animals has become a sport, with wealthy customers eager to observe the killings.

That illness seems to create a trance-like state in its victims, prompting them to commit a ritualistic act of slaughter.

The Islamic rules concerning halal meat require the animal to be slaughtered while alive and healthy, and demand that the appropriate Islamic blessing be recited during the act of slaughter.

Serpell cites an edition of the British Meat Trades Journal published near his time of writing, advising meat purveyors to divorce their product from "the act of slaughter," by swapping out the words "butcher" and "slaughterhouse" with what Serpell calls "American euphemisms": "meat plant," "meat factory".

"If you are accused of slaughtering your whole family, what is the appropriate way to act?" Mr. Morris said.

Call them what they were: Depraved acts of slaughter and an attack on the whole French people.

It was the first industrialised genocide of the last century – the second being the Jewish Holocaust – and the two mass acts of slaughter had clear historical connections.

Both political parties have decided to turn a blind eye to the mafie, important collectors of votes, on condition they avoid openly carrying out sensational acts of slaughter.

What is needed is a "vaguer designation, avoiding the g-word but clearly connoting criminal acts of slaughter".That is Christopher de Bellaigue's argument and many people will be shocked by it.

In The Buried Giant, tendrils of mist curl around villages in which Britons and Saxons live at peace, forgetful of the terrible acts of slaughter that had enabled Arthur to establish his realm, and keep the invaders at bay.