Sentence examples for hands chopped off from inspiring English sources

Offenders can get their hands chopped off or their heads bashed in with rocks.

One, Lamin Jusu Jarka, had both his hands chopped off by rebel soldiers.

A mechanic can get his hands chopped off in a machine.

What kind of restitution does someone who has had their hands chopped off hope for and expect?

I much preferred the more grisly Grimms' fairy tales, where people got hands chopped off and hearts and tongues cut out, to the sunnier ones by the Dane.

At the same time, lots of others were having their hands chopped off the boat -- Michael Fried, Rosalind Krauss, Barbara Rose, others -- all for different reasons.

After Mr. Hussein ordered that cigarette smugglers have one hand chopped off if caught, he dropped out of the business.

"Anyone who harms Israel, a little or a lot, will have his hand chopped off," he said, using a biblical phrase, as he toured the construction of a security fence being built between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, just to the north.

Mr. Yee said the $25 million Chinese-language movie, in which Mr. Chan plays a refugee who escapes to Japan and becomes a killer for the mob, has scenes that show characters getting a hand chopped off or pierced with knives.

"I've talked for years and cited how slaves were forbidden to read, you could get your hand chopped off, or people who taught slaves to read were punished, that's Fredrick Douglass's thing," Hayden said.

In Datta Khel, a village in North Waziristan, a man accused of spying for the United States was found shot to death with his right hand chopped off, intelligence officials said.