Sentence examples for cutting off the head from inspiring English sources

"Kind of like cutting off the head and the body falling".

As a Boston merchant reported to London, the Indians, in town after town, tortured and mutilated their victims, "either cutting off the Head, ripping open the Belly, or skulping the Head of Skin and Hair, and hanging them up as Trophies; wearing Men's Fingers as Bracelets about their Necks, and Stripes of their Skins which they dresse for Belts".

It was to be 100 years before the Protestants really showed their strength – by cutting off the head of the king in the Civil War.

They attacked a regional headquarters of the state security service, cutting off the head of the commander and killing a large number of policemen.

By "cutting off the head of the snake", Washington would defang these troubles and maybe get Syria (and pro-Tehran Iraq) thrown in for free.

Officials used phrases like "cutting off the head of the snake" to describe the decision to go after someone like Mr. Mansour.

It's just cutting off the heads of snakes.

Why bring one from Pakistan when they are cutting off the heads of our [soldiers]," he told the Guardian.

"Has any Islamic state in history ever tried that?" Zawahiri also counselled against cutting off the heads of captives; a bullet would suffice, without the damaging publicity.

Mexican and American drug agents believe that cutting off the heads of the organizations ultimately weakens them, but in many cases splinter groups have emerged.

She talks about binary trees, Hercules cutting off the heads of a mythical hydra (each severed neck grows two new heads, which is the essence of a binary tree), and a fractal pattern known as Sierpinski's Triangle.