Sentence examples for slaughter point from inspiring English sources

Chickens are mainly kept in long, dark, stifling sheds, where they stand in their own waste, and are fatted with corn to the slaughter point in a mere forty-nine days.

For poultry, the highest numbers of LSUs moved were for slaughter, which may present less of a risk of introducing disease to an existing population, as the animals are likely to be transported from the production site directly to the slaughter point.

Slaughter points out a slew of conflict of interest claims given that the minister has neither resigned or removed himself from discussions from which he could personally profit.

Then, when our friends got pregnant, we largely learned to celebrate the birth and eulogize the career, because few employers (outside academia), as Slaughter points out, adequately accommodate working moms' needs, from breastfeeding to scheduling babysitters.

Anne-Marie Slaughter points out that paternity leave has existed for men in Sweden since 1974.

Slaughter pointed out that Republicans did not grant Democrats the traditional "motion to recommit," an option that the minority generally is allowed to change measures at the last second on the House floor.

As Slaughter pointed out, women who choose time with their families over career advancement are viewed as letting down the feminist sisterhood, but as Slaughter failed to acknowledge, women who choose not to have children are viewed as another species altogether.

The survey team consisted of trained district and provincial agricultural and forestry government staff who visited the slaughter points approximately every two weeks.

The surveys were conducted at three slaughter points each in Xiengkhuang and Oudomxay Provinces during May September 2008 and at two collection points each in Huaphan and Luangprabang Provinces during October 2008 January 2009.

But only in a narrow sense are those hours of slaughter the point of the title of Alessandro Barbero's "Day of the Barbarians".

It's "not mass slaughter", Anderson pointed out.