Sentence examples for severing of limbs from inspiring English sources

To punish rebels, captains resorted to thumbscrews, red-hot pokers, strangling, the severing of limbs and more.

The government wants to introduce death by stoning for adulterers and the severing of limbs for theft in accordance with sharia law.

Plans for the sharia penalties – which will eventually include flogging, severing of limbs and death by stoning – triggered condemnation on social media sites in the tiny sultanate earlier this year.

Sharia punishments will be introduced over three years and include the severing of limbs for theft and death by stoning for adulterers.South Korea's president, Park Geun-hye, apologised for the ferry disaster that is thought to have killed 300 people.

A second phase later this year prescribes the severing of limbs and flogging for property crimes.

A second phase covering crimes such as theft and robbery is to be implemented later this year, involving more stringent penalties such as severing of limbs and flogging.

In the Americas, Betelgeuse signifies a severed limb of a man-figure (Orion)—the Taulipang of Brazil know the constellation as Zililkawai, a hero whose leg was cut off by his wife, with the variable light from Betelgeuse linked to the severing of the limb.

A year ago the Revolutionary United Front, the group that terrorized Sierra Leone throughout an eight-year civil war by severing the limbs of thousands of civilians, signed a peace accord with an elected government.

Nearly two years later, after an expenditure of 135m rand ($29m) and legal-aid bills that continue to mount, after much grief and many tears, after harrowing tales of torture, of severed limbs, electrocuted genitals and burnt flesh, what has the exercise achieved?From the start, South Africa's new government, elected in 1994, was determined to confront the past.

A trans Bolivian-American woman, her album American Drift considered the shared pigmentation of skin and soil; her new one, Demon City, is told from the perspective of the severed limbs of an 18th-century Bolivian revolutionary.

Running parallel to the story of severed limbs and befuddled marine biologists is an account of sensationalist journalism.