Sentence examples for killings every year from inspiring English sources

There are estimated to be perhaps several hundred such "honour killings" every year, mostly to rub out the stain of inter-caste or intra-clan liaisons.

Arguably, Mexico has lost the most in the war on drugs, with tens of thousands of drug-related killings every year.

In addition, Professor Rosenfeld said, the country may be undergoing a cultural change in which people have become less tolerant of certain forms of violence, particularly domestic violence, which has helped account for a decline in killings by adults every year since 1980.

Thousands of so-called "honour" killings take place every year around the world.

More than 500 people, almost all of them women, die in honor killings in Pakistan every year, usually at the hands of relatives acting over a perception shame has been brought on the family.

In the past, Ciudad Juárez was named the world's murder capital due to the thousands of killings that happened here every year because of a violent drug cartel war.

"Pork & Sons" (Phaidon; $39.95) is the story of killing a pig — the kind of killing that has been done every year for a very long time — and the many things you can then eat afterward, and it is distinguished by an unusual tranquillity of purpose.

In order to uphold the terms of the Interagency Bison Management Plan, the government organizes the killing of hundreds of bison every year.

My feeling is, if we know we can end the unnecessary killing of three-four million shelter animals every year, why wouldn't we do it?

Every year since 2003 honour killings have increased".

Numbering in the thousands every year, "encounters" or "encounter killings" are shootouts between the Indian police or army and any criminal element, from terrorists to petty thieves.