Sentence examples for facing extermination from inspiring English sources

"Shoah" — a film that, though conjuring death, is centered on discussions with survivors — evokes the reappropriation of violence by Jews facing extermination.

For the first time in history, a people facing extermination while the world either cackles or looks away — unlike the Armenians, Tibetans, World War II European Jews or Rwandans — have the power to destroy the world.

With the crustacean facing extermination as its habitat was polluted, locals were asked to change their behaviour, and were encouraged to view this as a culinary rather than environmental issue.

It actually sets the bar to intervention very high and justifies the use of force only when large numbers of civilians are facing extermination, mass deportation or massacre and where force can actually turn the situation around.

He writes darkly about Israel's own nukes and its possible temptation to use them: "For the first time in history, a people facing extermination while the world either cackles or looks away — unlike the Armenians, Tibetans, World War II European Jews or Rwandans — have the power to destroy the world," he writes.

People from the small Armenian villages once located in the Cilician region, now in Turkey were facing extermination during the Armenian Genocide.

In his 54 Below show, "I'm a Stranger Here Myself," that scenery is Weimar-era Germany, whose culture, he declares, was dominated by Jews and homosexuals, most of whom faced extermination when the Nazis rose to power.

"Several models of zombie infections have shown that in the event of a large scale outbreak … humans face extermination". With the CDC weighing in and the surging popularity of zombie-themed entertainment, it can all start to feel too possible.

The Shabak, 100,000 or more northern Iraqi Turkmen related to the Qizilbash tribes who helped the Safavid dynasty conquer Iran in the 16th century only to face extermination at the hands of their masters (who saw them as a threat in peacetime), take both Sunni and Shi'a labels.

Fewer than 200 lizards remain in the dry forest habitat of the Motagua Valley, and this subspecies of beaded lizard (H. h. charlesbogerti) was facing extinction due to local extermination and loss of habitat for agricultural purposes.

"If there had not been action, we were going to be facing an extermination event, with two or three clubs going into liquidation, not administration," says Mr Clarke.