Sentence examples for claim the dead from inspiring English sources

Relatives are too fearful of the disease to claim the dead.

The government did quickly mobilize help for relatives of victims, many of whom traveled from distant provinces to claim the dead.

In San Francisco, when no one will claim the dead or the family does not have money for a funeral, the city pays to cremate the body.

A sign on the door pointedly declared that the assembly was not a sit-in or a demonstration but just a place to claim the dead, presumably to avoid attracting another police crackdown.

We're suspicious of roads for the damage they cause, and we are resentful of them for the years of our life that they claim: the "dead time" we spend on them, driving "forgetfully on the way to somewhere else".

Attempts to claim the dead (or the living) who live in such border zones, argues Hale, make it even harder for such individuals to live there (319).

Turkey claims the dead were victims of the first world war.

In the play, the train driver claims the dead mother and baby, as Mr. Fugard said his own plays have sought to "claim people, refusing to allow them to pass on into oblivion, trying to bear witness".

On Wednesday, the Kiev government claimed the dead from three days of fighting included Russians from the North Caucasus republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan, as well as Serbs and Ukrainians.

After their attacks, Isis released the clips, thus claiming the dead men as their own "combatants" and the brutal murders they committed as further strikes in the war the group believes it is waging.

JALALABAD, Afghanistan — At least 13 people were killed by an airstrike in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar on Wednesday, with officials describing the victims as members of the Islamic State, while some residents claimed the dead were civilians.