Sentence examples for voluntary sacrifice from inspiring English sources

But war has drained the country's meagre resources, leaving little room for voluntary sacrifice.

The man behind the mask is Stuart Reston, driven to murder by the voluntary sacrifice of his neurotic wife and their young son.

According to Aztec traditions, the gods themselves were believed to practice voluntary sacrifice, first to create Tonatiuh and then to feed him and encourage him on his path through the sky.

Although no one would blame the fact that most healthcare stakeholders feel a keen sense of defensiveness to protect their piece of an ever diminishing pie, without thoughtful, voluntary sacrifice, we risk losing control of how our piece is divided.

Many young people known to Milosz died in "these frenzies of voluntary self-sacrifice"; the Germans deported the remaining population and razed the city, before retreating west to their own doom.

Another (voluntary) use of sacrifice behavior by the children was the fact that several older children willingly and regularly sacrificed their own time to assist the younger children in a number of situations (e.g., escorting them to the washroom and water fountain, etc).

The king's position was more pathetically composed and expressive and it agreed more with the change of emphasis that had taken place during the evolution of the work after Larsson's decision that the sacrifice was voluntary.

It was a kind of lifestyle that viewed sacrifice and voluntary simplicity and even boredom as the only possible responses to the terrifying realities of climate change and ecocide and economic inequality and the entertainment culture that was distracting us from it all.

The conflict, Slezkine writes, "justified all the previous sacrifices, both voluntary and involuntary, and offered the children of the original revolutionaries the opportunity to prove, through one more sacrifice, that their childhood had been happy, that their fathers had been pure, that their country was their family, and that their life was indeed beautiful even in death".

Each step I have taken has been voluntary, carefully planned, with sacrifices made, and consequences understood.

Consensus Action on Salt and Health (Cash) said huge progress made prior to 2010 under a national salt-reduction programme overseen by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) had been sacrificed under a voluntary system in which retailers and manufacturers police themselves.