Sentence examples for which slaughtered from inspiring English sources

From her bedroom window, she could see smoke billow from the stacks of the American Glue Factory, which slaughtered horses.

(Etymologists suggest that the bucket being kicked is not, as we might imagine, a pail, but a corruption of the Old French word buquet, meaning a balance or beam, from which slaughtered animals were suspended).

In France, Italy and Russia, autocratic and clerical regimes bred a fierce anti-clericalism, which slaughtered thousands of priests and nuns and tens of thousands of believers whenever a revolution brought it to power.

They are permitted only a regulation measure of state-approved grief, which must be expressed in Saddam's language: that of martyrdom and heroism, rather than wailing agony about the futility of a war which slaughtered more than a million people yet left the borders unchanged and achieved nothing.

If Algeria was not such a loyal ally of Syria, Assad might have pointed out that the French handed their colony over to the Algerian exiles who had largely avoided the war of independence – and who produced the autocratic and vicious state which slaughtered its own people in the Islamist struggle of the 1990s and which remains a corrupt and corrupted regime to this day.

Unfortunately, Wiesenhof, which slaughters 4.5 million chickens per week, had just been the subject of a documentary describing conditions so shocking that even McDonald's dropped it.

By contrast, France, which slaughters about 6 million cattle, now tests about half of them, and Japan tests all 1.3 million it eats.

The same local-sourcing strategy lies behind the success of top restaurants in Yorkshire, which slaughters all other regions in Harden's this year.

After killing a defenceless turtle on a remote beach with little possibility of getting caught, the gangs can sell the skin, eggs and meat on the black market.Officials are particularly concerned by a new gang in the state of Guerrero, which slaughters turtles on the beaches north of the seaside resort of Acapulco.

Eastern Congo is teeming with deadly rebel groups, including the Lord's Resistance Army, which slaughters and kidnaps in the name of the Ten Commandments, and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, whose members include perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Mr. McCartney addressed the issue on savethekangaroo.com, a Web site run by Vegetarians International Voice for Animals, or Viva! "There is an urgent need for action to protect kangaroos from a barbaric industry which slaughters them for meat and leather," he wrote.