Sentence examples for ordered the cull from inspiring English sources

In Egypt the health minister, Hatem al-Gabali, bizarrely ordered the cull of 350,000 pigs.

Government officials ordered the cull after three people died of rabies.

In fall 2013, local authorities ordered the cull of 200 ibexes to contain the spread of bucellosis.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency ordered the culling of both flocks and initiated active avian influenza surveillance on all farms within 5 km, but the virus spread nonetheless.

PAGE A12 EGYPT ORDERS PIGS KILLED Egyptian authorities ordered the culling of the country's pig population as a precaution against swine flu, an official said.

The community suffered even more when, in 2009, Mubarak ordered the culling of more than 300,000 pigs as a precaution against swine flu.

In addition, infected birds have been discovered across Asia, prompting officials from Vietnam to Japan to order the cull of millions of chickens and other fowl.

These failed to hold the outbreak and in April 1996 the Department of Animal Health and Production decided to 'stamp out' the infection by ordering the cull of Ngamiland's 320,000 heads of cattle.

In 1997, when the first human cases of the H5N1 avian influenza strain showed up in Hong Kong, she quickly responded by ordering the culling of 1.5 million poultry on the island--a move widely credited with preventing the outbreak from spreading further.

The government has ordered a cull of civet cats - a local delicacy and the prime suspect in spreading the disease - in the hope of averting a new outbreak.

The government at once ordered a cull of 3,500 birds being held for sale, and banned imports of live chickens from China for 21 days.