Sentence examples for were killed for being from inspiring English sources

Funny people were killed for being funny.

Unlike thousands of others who were killed for being witches during the inquisition, the Catholic church's effort to root out heresy, Toldini was tried and condemned by a secular tribunal.

However, if kids are exposed to storybooks with gay parents, or learn that people like Matthew Shepard were killed for being gay, they may become more accepting of LGBT people and less likely to engage in anti-gay bullying.

It became clear Winchell was killed for being gay.

When questioned, one of them said the young man was killed for being gay.

A Warsaw Embassy man advised him to go to Russia where he wouldn't be killed for being a Jew.

For officials at Yad Vashem, however, Schulz was killed for being a Jew, and his work belonged here.

Created for India's Muslims on the premise that, in Pakistan, no Muslim would be killed for being Muslim, it bred an atmosphere where Muslims are today being killed for not being "good Muslims".

Could the town ever return to its docile anonymity, or would it forever carry a murderous stigma as a place of intolerance, where a gay man was killed for being gay?

Her cousin, Sophie Bramly, said she feared she had been killed for being Jewish.

Sylvia Lancaster, who has campaigned tirelessly after her daughter Sophie was killed for being a goth in 2007, says the move will make a "vast difference".