Sentence examples for chopped off for from inspiring English sources

Her Fantine is unaccountably thrown out of a factory, reviled, and assaulted; she has a tooth extracted and her hair chopped off for money; she's violated in a coffin box; and she dies after singing — well, you know what she sings.

British warships patrolling the pirate-infested waters off Somalia were advised that captured pirates could claim asylum in Britain and that those who were returned to Somalia faced beheading for murder or a hand chopped off for theft under Islamic law.

Widow and mother of four, 33, whose hand was chopped off for stealing I did not have that much freedom to determine the pattern of my own life, coming from a middle-class family in one of the oldest districts in Mosul that is packed with people living in shabby little houses.

But the chief legacy, as a cross-country journey shows, is the deep psychological scarring of a people who seem to be wandering in another century -- many reduced to begging, missing hands chopped off for minor offenses, mourning those killed in the name of a religious code.

The individual cases break the heart: the seven-year-old girl beaten to death over a few extra grains of food; the boy whose finger was chopped off for accidentally dropping a sewing machine in the factory where he was forced to work; and, most shocking of all, the mother forced to drown her just-born baby in a bowl of water.

This is of course perfectly consistent with a sensitivity condition on knowledge, since if George did not have hands—if they'd been recently chopped off, for instance—he would not believe that he had hands.

These have included stoning to death for adultery and the chopping off of hands for theft, along with severe restraints on women's rights and provisions subjugating them to the will of men.

Other donors include Mikey Teutul, a biker known from the television show "American Chopper," who has twice chopped off his hair for Locks of Love.

Hyber used to be called Hybert, but chopped off the final "t" for some reason.

All she has to do is strip naked, have her hair chopped off, and walk through the streets for about twenty minutes as people pelt garbage at her and scream "Whore!" and "Shame!" Her strategy with him has not worked out as intended: all she wanted was to avoid marrying her gay fiancé and to have his sister, her despised daughter-in-law, imprisoned.

When her clan found out, they came for her and chopped off the heads of her kidnappers and sent them to the kidnappers' clan.