Sentence examples for maim from inspiring English sources

'To loyalists who continue to maim and murder, I say, your day is done.

A spokesman for Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the man who orchestrated the recent refinery attack in Algeria, told French media on Monday that France could expect "dozens like... Merah and Khaled Kelkal" who would spontaneously rise up to kill and maim.

Drug manufacturers and carmakers are not treated kindly by the justice system when they knowingly release products that have a tendency to maim and kill their customers.

When is it acceptable to go to war on a guess, especially when you know "for a fact" that it is going to kill and maim thousands of people, destroy families, wreak havoc and confusion for years and unleash terrorism?

Thousands later desert to escape the notorious initiation of dedovshchina, a kind of "hazing", though that hardly describes beatings and torture so vicious that they kill or maim several hundred new recruits every year.A smaller, all-professional army, say its backers, would be better paid, better prepared and more motivated.

Although the work is far from finished, the foreigners are being asked to leave.Unexploded bombs maim or kill over 200 people a year, and prevent the cultivation of vast areas of land.

"It is difficult to grasp, incomprehensible and inexcusable".At issue is not whether Mr Tsarnaev, together with his brother, aimed to kill and maim as many people as possible.

African leaders wanting to dodge or withdraw from the court were seeking a licence to "kill, maim and oppress their own people" without consequence, he wrote in the New York Times on October 10th.Although most of the court's work has been in Africa, and its sole conviction has been of an African (Thomas Lubanga of Congo), the archbishop rejected the idea that the ICC had an anti-African bias.

The three suicide-bombers who walked into restaurants on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on the evening of Saturday October 1st, carrying bombs packed with ball-bearings, nails and glass, clearly aimed to kill and maim large numbers of tourists.

Visitors from all over the world arrive daily at the site near the city that used to be called Saigon, renamed Ho Chi Minh City after the Communists took the south in 1975.Alongside the wreckage of an abandoned M41 tank another friendly guide demonstrates a dozen types of improvised booby-traps with sharp spikes that were set in and around the tunnels to maim pursuing American soldiers.

In order to kill and maim more efficiently, machine guns and tanks were brought into play; but the tanks failed to work, and the Maxim gun had already been deployed in the Boer War in South Africa.