Sentence examples for perished for from inspiring English sources

All of these protest actions were repressed with the utmost severity, and hundreds of Dutch citizens and students perished for them in the Mauthausen concentration camp.

Joyce perished for 43 after pulling Sharif Asadullah to midwicket, while O'Brien was dismissed three balls later, with Andrew Poynter falling soon after.

Despite its hostility towards superstitious practices, it feels it must show gratitude to the families of millions who perished for the cause.

We should reclaim the memory of the leviathans that perished for and in London – one of the great whaling ports of the world.

Then by the time Maxwell entered the crease at the fall of Victoria's sixth wicket, five of his team-mates had perished for ducks.

We remember it as a day when 19 criminals hijacked a religion, and 3,000 innocent lives perished for the unfortunate realisation of their perverse, criminal ideology.

"There are hundreds here ready to perish for lack of clothing, to-night".

Separated, the weaker must perish, for it had a failing heart, virtually no brain and "no lungs to cry with".

And no pig should perish for a pork chop as dry as one at Ago. Desserts were dead-on one night, dead ringers for Sara Lee another.

Others survive in small numbers and, although experts believe the genetic variation between many "improved" breeds is slight, they are reluctant to let them perish for fear of losing important mutations.

The old hero of romantic love in Arabic literature, Majnūn, "the demented one," became a symbol of the soul longing for identification with God, and in the Indus valley the tales of Sassui or Sohnī, the girls who perish for their love, and other romantic figures, have been understood as symbols of the soul longing for union with God through suffering and death.