Sentence examples for less mutilation from inspiring English sources

Many have grappled with the task, and, despite the occasional flesh wound, he has been treated fairly, if a little squarely — with far less mutilation, certainly, than someone like Henry James, whom Greene himself wrote about with such feeling, and who continues to be knifed at regular intervals by well-meaning producers.

Disney's movie was very loosely based on this but with less death and mutilation.

"The fact that a method involving less pain and mutilation exists," the majority opinion said, "and that many states have moved to that method because it is perceived to be a more humane manner of execution clearly must play an important factor in the determination whether an older method is cruel and unusual punishment".

Some of the special problems faced by girls include overwork, discrimination in access to education, termination of schooling due to early pregnancy and/or marriage, sexual abuse, discrimination in inheritance, female genital mutilation and less food intake.

Trumble writes about lauded psychiatrist, Dr Karl A Menninger, who in 1934 "presented his case to the American Psychiatric Association that 'bobbed hair and tinted nails' were a form of self-mutilation no less harmful than the abnormal cutting off of an arm, or starving oneself to death".

(Menninger, 1935: 418–19) This case is not seen as any more or less typical than the mutilations of a 'rather pretty woman of thirty' who killed her baby with a hammer and then amputated her own forearm by having it run over by a train (ibid.: 408 9).

But according to research, FGM still has high support in areas with a lower standard of education, where proponents claim mutilation makes women less likely to commit adultery.

Ms Tamar-Mattis says that American doctors are slowly becoming less heavy-handed, but prompt surgery genital mutilation in the eyes of critics—remains the norm in industrialised countries.

Less-than-civilized societies have used mutilation as an instrument to empower slayers and weaken their enemies.

A series of reforms abolished mutilation punishments with progressively less-severe beatings by the bastinado.

But for ordinary Sudanese teenagers, less money has practical consequences: more genital mutilation, more AIDS and more fistula.