Sentence examples for to be maimed from inspiring English sources

I was sure that their love was doomed, and my uncle was likely to be maimed or killed.

Those images may tell us a great deal about faith or about politics, but they tell us nothing about what it is to be maimed.

Many of us living in Sri Lanka fear that, despite the defeat of the Tamil Tigers, people will continue to be maimed and killed.

Once again we are told that we can "win the war" if we just send enough young Americans to be maimed and killed and spend enough dollars in the faraway battlefield.

Meanwhile we are cutting Pell grants and sending some of our most respectful, most disciplined young people to be maimed in Iraq straight from their ROTC programs in high school.

Sexual violence is a public health crisis in much of the world, and women and girls ages 15 to 44 are more likely to be maimed or killed by men than by malaria, cancer, war or traffic accidents combined, according to a 2005 study.

Women worldwide ages 15 through 44 are more likely to die or be maimed because of male violence than because of cancer, malaria, war and traffic accidents combined.

We depend on the literal and figurative hearts of Elizabeth Samet's students, young men and women prepared to die or be maimed for the United States.

Meanwhile, men and women continue to die and be maimed in an unwinnable war, our public education system is in shambles, and millions of poor Americans needlessly languish in prison.

Spouses are also the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. "Women worldwide ages 15 through 44 are more likely to die or be maimed because of male violence than because of cancer, malaria, war and traffic accidents combined," writes Nicholas D. Kristof, one of the few prominent figures to address the issue regularly.  .

But that doesn't stop these hypocrites from claiming that their love of "democracy" runs so deep that we must send Americans to die and be maimed and bankrupt the nation in the name of spreading "democracy" in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout the world.