Sentence examples for were killed for it from inspiring English sources

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"They had a cause, they stood up for it, they were killed for it," a relative said.

"Most likely, these kids saw something and were killed for it and the military covered it up," Jelena Milic, the executive director at CEAS, said.

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"You would be killed for it".

Mandelstam reflected that poetry was so respected in Russia, "people are killed for it".

For thousands of years ivory has been prized and elephants have been killed for it.

The Iraqis could spend time with us without having to worry that they would be killed for it.

"Who wants to buy Pablo Escobar's property -- they might be killed for it," said Kristian Holge, a lawyer who deals on land forfeiture with the United Nations in Colombia.

Although we are still judged as harshly as ever, primarily by one another, and although the past can never be escaped, we have won the literary right, it seems, to fall from grace without being killed for it.

Speaking to local news channel KTVT, Taylor's father Adrian said that what his son had done was wrong, but said he didn't deserve to be killed for it.

We already live in a world where we can't call the police when we need them, because we know that there is a good chance that we or our loved ones will be killed for it.

Meanwhile, in an unknown but beautiful corner of the Mediterranean, Albania, Simon discovers an ancient culture of revenge - where if an adult commits a crime, a child could be killed for it.

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