Sentence examples for appropriate sacrifice from inspiring English sources
The King, believing that a dissatisfied ancestor was responsible for his bad tooth, was trying to discover the spirit's identity in order to prepare an appropriate sacrifice.
Due to either an error in the ritual, or a failure to offer the appropriate sacrifice, Mitra and Varuna instead sent a daughter to the couple.
Given this, it is interesting to note that it is customary in Vedic tradition in parts of India to bury lepers alive [54], [55] rather than cremate their bodies, which as diseased, are not considered an appropriate sacrifice to Hindu Gods [54].
This dilemma is worsened when--as with developing vs. developed nations--the standard for defining appropriate sacrifices is hard to agree on.
Scientists asked 451 online survey-takers whether in the event of an inevitable accident it was more appropriate to sacrifice passengers or bystanders, a quandary known as the trolley problem in ethics.
As burning is often the appropriate mode for sacrifice to celestial deities, so burial is often the appropriate mode for sacrifice to earth deities.
It concluded, for instance, that forensic scientists for law enforcement agencies "sometimes face pressure to sacrifice appropriate methodology for the sake of expediency".
Singer leaves it open what counts as being of comparable importance and as being an appropriate level of sacrifice, but his argument implies that morality sometimes requires us to invest heavily in rescuing needy persons in the global population, not merely at the level of local communities and political states.
However, planning to seek to secure higher qualification and pay levels within the workforce by sacrificing appropriate adult to children ratios is a flawed strategy.
What is never morally appropriate is making sacrifices, that is, surrendering something of value to oneself for the sake of something of less or no value to oneself.
Commonly, they guarantee the choice of the most appropriate response without sacrificing the system functionalities to an adversary, but do not consider the self-inflicted side effects of the responses themselves.
