Sentence examples for massive slaughtering from inspiring English sources

Wyeth entitled How Many Millions, One Can Only Guess, which addresses the massive slaughtering and depopulation of bison at the time.

Cattle are socially important in Republic of Comoros because massive slaughtering occurs during traditional wedding ceremonies known as "Grands Mariages," especially on the main island, Grande Comore.

At bottom, of course, that process is a massive slaughter.

Annan has even suggested that preëmptive military action may be justified to avert the threat of a massive slaughter or a genocide.

She notes the new imbalance in the casualties of war, the massive slaughter of civilians in Rwanda, never having been a spectator (a "witness," as a war correspondent friend insists) to those atrocities.

Food prices have jumped at an unusually rapid pace, in part because of bad weather this spring as well as the massive slaughter of livestock in order to fight an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease.

Roatta objected to these "massive slaughters" of noncombatant civilians and threatened to halt Italian aid to the Chetniks if they did not end.

To prevent further spread of that epidemic, the government implemented massive slaughter of infected pigs and a swine vaccination policy (5 ).

This epidemic recorded approximately 170,000 verified infected cattle and the massive slaughter of ~4.4 million cattle to curtail the potential transmission of disease to humans, called variant CJD (vCJD).

If not, they will have little choice but to start slaughtering on a massive scale.

Peru vows to investigate report of massive dolphin slaughter.