Sentence examples for hunts from inspiring English sources

It says only 21 of the 341 convictions involved hunts "registered with the Council of Hunting Associations".

What will today's decision mean for these whale hunts being carried out on our own doorstep?

Under the ban, fox hunts can do everything except hunt foxes.

If rural settlements today are, in the main, Potemkin villages, perhaps they are skirted by Potemkin hunts.

At a meeting in August Waza suggested a two-year moratorium on dolphin drive hunts, but this was rejected by Jaza, Waza said.

"Waza is not in any way or form participating in the drive hunts," he said.

Reports said the hunts would probably involve catching fewer minke whales and no fin or humpback whales, as Japanese fisheries officials attempt to pass the "scientific" test set by the ICJ.

Hunts may have survived the ban – the Countryside Alliance says numbers have held up over the past 10 years and 45,000 people still regularly follow hunts – but they are ever more hedged in.

"This is not an attack on the hunts per se.

Whichever figure is correct, the key fact is that hunts – now essentially hobbyist – are not the ones primarily doing the illegal hunting.

He claims 20% of the convictions involved people associated with hunts; the Countryside Alliance reckon the figure is 3%; I make it 6%.