Sentence examples for in a slaughter from inspiring English sources

When Democratic Senate candidates, running as moderates, went down in a slaughter on Election Day in 2002, the liberals thought the party would finally listen to them.

The total population of black rhinos plunged to less than 2,500 in 1993 from 70,000 or so in 1970, in a slaughter largely driven by the market for rhino horn and related products in Asia.

"My kids had to live like they were in prison because of kidnap threats, and I had to live like a pig in a slaughter camp," he said then.

Before the United Nations team entered the town, a combination of videos, televised confessions of numerous captured fighters and reports from activists outside the area all indicated that a battle on Thursday between the military and local fighters in Tremseh, a village of 11,000 people about 22 miles northwest of Hama, resulted in a slaughter of rebel forces.

Two days later Kett, who had his main camp outside the city, confronted the royal army, resulting in a slaughter of over 2,000 peasants.

Defenders of bullfights contend an animal's quick death in the ring is more merciful than its demise in a slaughter house.

In the early eighteenth century, Bernard Mandeville, in "The Fable of the Bees," judged, "There is of all the Multitude not one Man in ten but what will own, (if he was not brought up in a Slaughter-house) that of all Trades he could never have been a Butcher; and I question whether ever any body so much as killed a Chicken without Reluctancy the first time".

This is why, in 1985, the massive Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall was built, reminding people of the slaughter perpetrated in that city by Japanese troops in 1937 — a slaughter to which little attention had previously been paid.

In 2002 a slaughter facility was built, and the following year sheep and lamb meat began being exported to the United Kingdom.

They were slaughtered in a registered slaughter house under conditions which are under constant monitoring by the institutional authorities.

He chronicled some of the savage episodes that occurred during the period of American Western expansion in Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West, 1846 1890 (2005).