Sentence examples for widespread slaughter from inspiring English sources

The world's largest land animal is again threatened with widespread slaughter.

But Yellowstone bison, marooned in the park during the decades of widespread slaughter elsewhere, are considered genetically pure.

GOUREVITCH: I'm not saying that I'm not convinced that there could have been widespread slaughter of civilians.

You aren't convinced that military action in Libya was not needed to stop the widespread slaughter of civilians?

Silent Spring, which outlined dozens of examples of the widespread slaughter of birds, led directly to the banning of the manufacture of DDT and other pesticides.

She said most people are taught a "fantasy history" that ignored or downplayed the widespread slaughter of her people and the theft of their traditional lands, the damming of their rivers, and the deliberate slaughter of bison.

Africa is in the midst of a widespread elephant slaughter, and conservation groups say poachers are wiping out tens of thousands of elephants a year, more than at any time in the previous two decades, with the underground ivory trade becoming increasingly militarized.

And on June 2nd, Human Rights Watch, a pressure group, issued a fat report on continuing "widespread ethnic slaughter, executions, torture, rape and arbitrary arrest" in the region.Even by the standards of war, some of the atrocities in eastern Congo are shocking.

But directing our anger at a single German national in the case of the elephant or a Minnesotan dentist in the case of Cecil is to miss the big picture – and that's the widespread, illegal slaughter of our wildlife at industrial levels unseen for decades.

There has been an uptick in fighting in recent weeks, with reports of towns razed to the ground and widespread rape and slaughter, according to the United Nations.

"This slaughter has widespread implications and involves dozens of rare species, many of them regular visitors to the British Isles".