Sentence examples for pointless killing from inspiring English sources

They should educate us about the absurdities, the accidents and pointless killing.

Jacobs's crew is engaged in a "pointless killing" of the animals, in which the writer is indirectly complicit, leading him to sense "that this environment I had violated would eventually demand its revenge".

Shall the House not debate establishing a timetable for military withdrawal before voting on more money for pointless killing?

This is how Ivy League-trained technocrats in the Kennedy administration led us into the pointless killing ground of Vietnam, so certain of their world-views that they did not bother to examine conditions on the ground.

"It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable".

Horne tells us that "revolutionaries from the Faubourg St.-Marcel set forth with the noble intent of liberating the prostitutes; but liquor got the better of them and instead they dragged out on to the street 45 wretched madwomen and massacred them in a pointless orgy of killing".

Away from public scrutiny, they dramatically expanded the U.S. drone war, extending the pointless exercise of simply killing terrorists into our 14th year.

In 1952, the draconian era of home secretary David Maxwell Fyfe, the mathematician and wartime codebreaker Alan Turing was prosecuted for gross indecency and forced to undergo "chemical castration" hormone treatment in lieu of a prison sentence, after which pointless ordeal he killed himself.

Besides, ecologists argue, killing foxes would be pointless because they are territorial, with a territory of 25 to 40 hectares on average at the smaller end.

If the market was killing manufacturing jobs, it was pointless to fight it.

She thinks that killing deer sends a bad message to children and is pointless, since more deer will migrate in from nearby areas.