Sentence examples for exterminating from inspiring English sources

On a recent visit, your correspondent saw the burned villages and freshly scattered graves of both tribes.Congo is not Rwanda: it lacks the sophisticated, authoritarian political arrangements that enabled the Hutu government in 1994 to order the extermination of the Tutsis, and nearly to succeed in exterminating them.

I've talked to their officials and – believe me – it's all they can do to stop themselves choking on their fairtrade coffee when they hear people from Europe and North America telling them how to use their country's resources after centuries of cutting down all of our own forests, exterminating Indian populations from coast to coast and drilling for oil.

Some of the money obtained by selling licences to catch these squid has found its way back to researchers who are studying the squids' life cycles, so as to exploit them efficiently without exterminating them.Sasha Arkhipkin, the islands' chief fisheries scientist, studies Loligo.

The best guess, therefore, is that AIDS has spread to man as a result of people hunting chimpanzees for food a practice, often bloody, that continues to this day.Unfortunately, this hunting now risks exterminating the very population that infected humanity in the first place.

Dr Brundtland sees such advocacy as a natural extension of the WHO's traditional roles, complementing rather than detracting from its original objectives of setting health-care standards and exterminating such dread diseases as smallpox and polio.The WHO is a complex organisation working in an increasingly politicised environment.

Exterminating bedbugs is not a staple of Facebook chatter.Yet Ecolab's hygiene-oriented nerds now play a crucial role in industries ranging from hotels, hospitals and water supply to fracking, a method of extracting natural gas.

This was largely the result of the rabid anti-Ukrainian propaganda which portrayed the government in Kiev which came to power after the revolutionary protests last month as a bunch of crazed fascists hell-bent on exterminating the Russian-speaking population of Crimea.

If those calculations are right, the Polynesians were exterminating a species or two a year, at least a hundred times the background extinction rate.Still, that particular spate of destruction is over, so the numbers cannot be used to estimate the current extinction rate.

Post-war Poles, repressed under Soviet Communism, did not begin addressing the Holocaust until about a decade ago, and many are angered by accusations that their people played an active role in exterminating the Jews.

The 1896 97 war, with its surprise attacks and ambushes, was aimed at exterminating the enemy.

Woodes Rogers, whom the king commissioned as the first royal governor and charged with the responsibility of exterminating pirates and establishing more stable conditions.