Sentence examples for as mutilation from inspiring English sources

In the same spirit he denounced and forbade circumcision, which he viewed as mutilation.

In fact the success of social-marketing programmes in HIV prevention among gay men in the West underscores that there are effective alternatives.John Egan VancouverSIR – I deride your description of medical circumcision as "mutilation".

There, Pope John Paul II wrote that there are acts that "are always seriously wrong by reason of their object," including "whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, physical and mental torture and attempts to coerce the spirit; whatever is offensive to human dignity".

References to it as mutilation increased throughout the 1970s.

5) Brutal punishments, such as mutilation of limbs are all but absent in the Torah, but common in other ancient law codes.

Early industrial performances often involved taboo-breaking, provocative elements, such as mutilation, sado-masochistic elements and totalitarian imagery or symbolism, as well as forms of audience abuse, such as Throbbing Gristle's aiming high powered lights at the audience.

And her culturally relativist approach to human rights violations such as female genital mutilation, as well as her transphobia, are abhorrent.

Moreover, they are also commonly subjected to standard management procedures such as mutilations (e.g., tail docking), abrupt weaning, regrouping and transport from which they cannot escape and which lead to distress (e.g., Dudink et al. 2006; Geverink et al. 1998; Noonan et al. 1994; Stookey and Gonyou 1994).

In ancient Palestine, injury and bodily mutilation, as well as theft, were considered private wrongs.

The cake was meant to protest genital mutilation, as well as racism, according to the artist, Makunde Linde, an Afro-Swede.

In particular, young girls in many countries are subject to painful and traumatic cultural practices, including genital mutilation, as well as widespread sexual violence.