Sentence examples for severing hands from inspiring English sources

Perkinson recounts cases of convicts cutting their Achilles tendons, breaking bones, severing hands and feet just to avoid working in the fields.

On the 1st of May 2017 Brazilian farmers attacked the indigenous Gamela community with machetes and rifles, severing hands and feet and hospitalising thirteen people.

Instead of making laws that would protect the freedoms and rights of their people and encourage investment and innovation, they imposed Sharia laws with such punishments as severing hands, crucifixion and hanging.

Hadiths calling for harsh punishments such as severing thieves' hands were put into historical perspective so they are not taken as models for modern times, Ozafsar said.

SEVERING a thief's hand is the work of seconds, but a campaign to introduce strict Islamic punishments in Kelantan, a state in northern Malaysia, has ground on for 50 years.

Not that any actual hand-severings take place in the play, which is having its world premiere at the New Jersey Repertory Company here.

I think of the final stanza of John Crowe Ransom's splendid "Parting, Without a Sequel," in which a woman has just put into a mail carrier's hands a letter severing relations with her lover: Away went the messenger's bicycle, His serpent's track went up the hill forever, And all the time she stood there hot as fever And cold as any icicle.

According to the police, Mr. DeJesus sliced at Mr. Stretch with a knife, wounding his head and severing tendons in his left hand.

For six weeks after the flotilla incident, Israel and Turkey traded threats that played into the hands of extremists and came to the brink of severing ties.

Mark Turner, their partner in the dynamic post-bop band Fly, had sliced through two fingers of his left hand with a power saw while cutting firewood, severing nerves and tendons.

Some local farmers began reacting by destroying the company's generators and severing electrical hoses, angry because they believed that their fields were being unfairly handed over to the company.