(n.) The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Congolese civilians are being beaten, threatened and arrested for wearing the T-shirts of opposition candidates, raising the prospect of bloodshed during this month's elections, the UN has warned.
(2) After a night of chaos and bloodshed, Yıldırım said the government would consider reintroducing the death penalty, which would allow it to execute those behind the coup, the country’s fifth in 60 years.
(3) The latest violence reminds many here of the worst bloodshed of the 1990s.
(4) A concept so noble in the drawing rooms of Manhattan has degenerated into a sickening prelude to more bloodshed.
(5) The country needs his leadership if we are going to reduce the daily bloodshed from gun violence that we have seen for too long," Bloomberg said.
(6) In the latest bloodshed, a 27-year-old Palestinian man was shot dead during a protest in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.
(7) The US says it will not push forward on nuclear talks until South Korea is satisfied that the North has taken responsibility for last year's bloodshed.
(8) Now, with the gruesome killing of Farooq, a senior if largely colourless figure, the bloodshed appears to have spread from Pakistan to the streets of north London.
(9) They called on the military authorities and Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement to resume negotiations to avoid further bloodshed.
(10) The attack occurred on Monday, the station said, in a district of the southern city of Kashgar where tensions between Muslim Uighurs who call the region home and the national majority Han Chinese have led to bloodshed in recent years.
(11) Those who had to stay often seemed as angry as they were cowed by the bloodshed, and vowed to go to the polls.
(12) Greste’s release will help improve Sisi’s position after his overthrow of Mohamed Morsi, his democratically elected but unpopular predecessor, and the bloodshed that followed – even as the campaign to free two other Al-Jazeera colleagues continues.
(13) But what of those who preside over this bloodshed from distant capitals?
(14) Spanish voters punished prime minister José María Aznar's People's party for the bloodshed of last week's Madrid terrorist attacks yesterday, throwing it out of government in an angry reaction to his handling of the aftermath.
(15) It was grimly fitting that a regime that began in blood with the slaughter of hundreds of thousands in an anti-communist crackdown from 1965 to1966 ended with more bloodshed.
(16) All action must be taken to avoid further bloodshed.
(17) Far from its customary killing grounds – places we often prefer to forget – this simple and brutal weapon can bring bloodshed to any city, no matter how enlightened.
(18) The latest wave of bloodshed started a week ago, on the eve of the holy month of Ramadan, when tanks and snipers laid siege to Hama, a city in central Syria that has been a stronghold of protest.
(19) Tarantino, Django Unchained's director, had already reined in the movie's gore for the Chinese market, retouching footage to tone down the colour and bloodshed.
(20) Barely a month later the latest round of bloodshed in Gaza began.
Christ
Definition:
(n.) The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.
(2) Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were arrested on the eve of Russia's presidential vote last weekend, days after an impromptu performance of an anti-Putin song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
(3) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
(4) His dynamic vision for making Christ visible in mission and ministry, as well as serving the poor, would have been a great asset to us all."
(5) The curator Clare Browne has a certain sympathy for Bock – “he was a serious collector, and he saved many pieces which would otherwise certainly have been destroyed” – but even she is startled that he ran his scissors straight through the figure of Christ, sparing only the face, which ended up in the V&A’s half.
(6) Yet some members of the church who profess desire to adhere most strictly to the teachings of Christ are the most vehement objectors to behavior that most resembles what his might have been.
(7) Since the allegations became public, fans have taken to holding up homemade signs at Florida State games: "We Support Famous Jameis", "Jameis is Innocent," and "In Jameis Christ We Pray".
(8) I think the fact that the movement has now become so public and widely supported gives it a resilience that means we can do this and it will make it very hard for border force and the government to make a move on these people.” There were also training demonstrations given at churches in Sydney, Hobart, Perth, Canberra and Adelaide, while Christ Church cathedral in Darwin will hold a demonstration later this afternoon.
(9) The truth of the redemption of all things in Christ, which is the message of the life-giving cross, must be reclaimed (Colossians 1:20; John 3:16).
(10) Even now when he arrives at the door, I think, 'Christ, where are the valuables?'"
(11) The trio were arrested after a brief performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour of a song calling for the Virgin Mary to "chase Putin out".
(12) In 1500, though, he unveiled two paintings in the Contarelli chapel in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome – the French church – showing Christ calling St Matthew and his martyrdom.
(13) I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal saviour.
(14) Our food banks' primary goal is not party political, but grounded in the church's response to the love of Christ – to meet needs in the short term by alleviating hunger, and by recognising all who come in need of food as people made in God's image.
(15) I turned to Hillcoat, happier than I'd ever seen him in the economy seat beside me: "Jesus Christ, John, how much did we drink?
(16) They are no more perfect a family than any family, but their Christian witness is not marred in our eyes because following Christ is not a declaration of our perfection, but of HIS perfection.
(17) And Jesus Christ, we don’t know about him – it seems as if he may have just been a Jewish radical, so if I had to pick one… heheheheh!” He cackles like a crazy.
(18) Profile in the Guardian, January 2007 On winning the Nobel : "Oh Christ!
(19) She had a robust attitude when I grilled her on Lonely Planet's advice against walking up Corcovado to the Christ the Redeemer statue.
(20) In Herbert Ross's Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), based on the Terence Rattigan stage play, he won hearts as well as minds with a tender performance as the shy schoolmaster who falls in love with Petula Clark, and in 1972 he gave an extraordinary turn in a cult movie rarely revived now, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, in which he played a young man who succeeds to an earldom after the ageing incumbent dies in an auto-erotic strangling incident, and reveals that he believes himself to be Jesus Christ.