Sentence examples for before the slaughter from inspiring English sources

But without the union's protection, "we would be lambs before the slaughter," Mr. Stephan said.

But that novel was written before the slaughter and chaos of the cartel wars reached hallucinatory proportions.

And given the outcome, the lovingly filmed sequences before the slaughter have the effect of heightening the tragedy without overloading the picture with cheap, exploitative dread.

An Italian charity, Partito EcoAnimalista, called Gadhimai "unparalleled religious madness", saying the buffaloes are not given food or water for several days before the slaughter to make them docile and weak.

Intelligence reports obtained using the US Freedom of Information Act show the cabinet and almost certainly the president had been told of a planned "final solution to eliminate all Tutsis" before the slaughter reached its peak.

An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotell Rwanda' by Paul Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner Bloomsbury £16.99, pp264 In November 1993, five months before the slaughter began, several trucks arrived in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, with an unusual load.

Blood washes a cobblestone courtyard in Baghdad before the slaughtering.

Some died even before they reached the slaughter plants.

Critics have pointed to several Catholic and Protestant leaders who sided openly with the Hutu government in the months before it orchestrated the slaughter of Tutsi and moderate Hutu.

All the pigs were moved from the pens and transported to the abattoir, 60 km far from the farm: both groups were held off feeding throughout the duration of the transportation and during the staying in the lairage at abattoir, before entering the slaughtering chain.

Indeed, Russia, Iran and the regime should be given a chance to stop the slaughter before carefully targeted retaliation becomes necessary.