Sentence examples for were killed for having from inspiring English sources

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"It's not possible that in Veracruz, in less than 24 hours, they come to hasty conclusion that [the priests] were killed for having some drinks and carousing with shadowy characters … There are local accounts of five people entering the church and violently taking them away," said the Father Hugo Valdemar Romero, spokesman for the archdiocese of Mexico City.

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He is believed to have been killed for having written to the prime minister about shoddy work and corruptly awarded contracts.

"I have heard of many cases where the wife is threatened with violence and beaten up, but I have never heard of a woman being killed for having a girl".

After Agweng's execution, Kony called a group meeting, where he explained that the security chief had actually been killed for having sex with one of the widows of the three murdered lieutenants.

He discovered that Christ was a revolutionary figure a person who was killed for having dangerous opinions, and was later exploited and merchandised by Christianity.

The problem with saying people should be killed for having abortions — as these examples, and many more, ought to demonstrate — is that people are already being killed, sometimes for having or providing abortions, and often simply for being in a building where abortions take place.

They were killed for a cause, and we have to go through with it.

One way of appreciating that stark disparity, ProPublica's analysis shows, is to calculate how many more whites over those three years would have had to have been killed for them to have been at equal risk.

But she said there was no certain information yet on whether he had been killed "for reasons that had something to do with his job or reasons that had nothing to do with his job".

Women are said to have been killed for refusing to have sex or surrender their food.

A message left with her body said she had been killed for social media posts she had made under an assumed name.

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