Sentence examples for slaughtering one from inspiring English sources

For example, the Russian sturgeons were given a few respites in the 20th century when during revolution and world war people were too busy slaughtering one another to slaughter fish.

Fears of casualties did not deter Americans from slaughtering one another in their own Civil War, or from costly sacrifices in the two world wars, as well as in Korea and Vietnam.

Laura explains that slaughtering one pig results in 2.5 litres of blood, while a young bull, like my steer, loses 4.5 litres of blood.

In the second half of the 20th century, as the European nations that had spent the first half slaughtering one another formed a trade agreement, then a political union, then a visa-free travel area and a single currency, the Middle Eastern states tore into one another with increasing ferocity.

When democracy returned to Nigeria last year, taxpayers wondered, justifiably enough, why they should be paying both in money and men to stop the Sierra Leoneans from slaughtering one another.

By making it clear that America is heading for the exit, the Baker group argued, Iraqi minds would be concentrated on resolving their differences.The Keane-Kagan plan, by contrast, says that no national reconciliation is possible while Iraqis are slaughtering one another.

It is all too easy, after 70 years of European peace and 100 years after Europeans slaughtered one another on the western front, to ignore what has been achieved by Europe's common institutions in providing a stability in Europe that did not exist there before.

Those quotes – as fans of internet flame wars will already know – come courtesy of Will Self, who slaughtered one of our most sacred cows on Radio 4's A Point of View in August.

There is also, similarly, the striking approximation of a human smile on the face of every pig, even a slaughtered one hung upside down by the hocks: the small eyes close tight in mirth and the mouth hangs open in a pleasant expression made worse by the color of the face, which, in its pallor, approximates the colour of Nordic human flesh".

They said: 'You know the Sons of Iraq experiment has failed and they will be slaughtered one after the other.

Two days earlier he'd slaughtered one in a way that sounds especially Texan: feeding it two Mexican beers before shooting it between the eyes.