(v. t.) To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a 2010 essay, Berman wrote of visiting the Bronx again, with trepidation, fearing that the borough's notorious self-immolation would have left nothing of the world he remembered.
(2) "Saturday's self-immolation is the latest in an ever-increasing list of courageous and profound acts which the world cannot continue to ignore."
(3) By burning the pilot to death, the militants violated Islam’s prohibition on the immolation or mutilation of bodies – even during wartime, he said.
(4) Gepey died after self-immolating behind a military camp, Free Tibet said.
(5) The actor was asked about recent cases of self-immolation by Tibetan Buddhist monks protesting against China .
(6) While much of Britain’s attention has been on the latest twists, turns and turmoil over Brexit , Northern Ireland has been quietly self-immolating in the corner.
(7) In 2009 a number of Tamils in India self-immolated in protest against ongoing war crimes committed during the civil war in Sri Lanka.
(8) Film of the area taken by journalists from the AFP news agency last month showed a heavy presence of Chinese security authorities with patrols equipped with fire extinguishers to stop further attempts at self-immolation.
(9) The latest self-immolation comes at an especially sensitive time, ahead of Wednesday's traditional Tibetan new year celebrations and the anniversary of the 14 March 2008, riots in Tibet's capital, Lhasa, which left 22 people dead.
(10) Although self-immolation as social protest was widely publicized during the years surveyed, the authors note that these individuals all attempted suicide for personal and irrational rather than morally idealistic reasons.
(11) The charming 67-year-old sitting in a rehearsal room at the Globe theatre in London is energetic, even defiant; but someone bent on theatrical self-immolation?
(12) The 27-year-old teacher of linguistics at Tunis University was one of the most high-profile bloggers following Mohammed Bouazizi's self-immolation, travelling to his home town of Sidi Bouzid to chronicle events both for her blog and Facebook.
(13) Tibetan areas have seen the worst unrest since 2008 this year, with several protests and a spate of self-immolations , mostly in Sichuan province.
(14) The Dalai Lama has praised the courage of those who engage in self-immolation and has attributed the protests to what he calls China's "cultural genocide" in Tibet.
(15) Tibetans, including a prominent writer in Beijing, have pleaded for an end to the self-immolations, saying they are not helping the cause of Tibetan rights.
(16) A man who answered the phone at the Kirti Monastery hung up when he was asked about the self-immolation.
(17) Last October, a taxi driver self-immolated in Alexandria after accusing government officials of being responsible for heightened living costs.
(18) He said that at the time Seemanpillai died, “there was no concern or indication of any suicidal ideation” and that a caseworker had been in contact with Seemanpillai the day before he self-immolated.
(19) And 13 of the current 23 self-immolations have occurred here.
(20) It quoted a Tibetan expert who said the "Dalai Lama clique" had "instigated and enticed" the men to self-immolate.
Sacrifice
Definition:
(n.) The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.
(n.) Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation.
(n.) Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest.
(n.) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
(n.) To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep.
(n.) Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering.
(n.) To destroy; to kill.
(n.) To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
(v. i.) To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Estimates of the risk probability for each dose level and sacrifice time are found utilizing the sample likelihood as the posterior density.
(2) At the People’s Question Time in Pendle, an elderly man called Roland makes a short, powerful speech about the sacrifices made for the right to vote and says he’s worried for the future of the NHS.
(3) Furthermore, at sacrifice, 7 days after the initiation of the disease, the concentration of circulating PAF in treated as well as untreated rats was normal.
(4) To determine whether this density gradient shift was due to increased maturation rate of bone or decreased resorption and mineralization rates, [3H]proline and 45Ca were injected 5 days and 24 hours prior to sacrifice, respectively.
(5) All freedom-loving people will miss him, but we will never forget his sacrifice and his achievements."
(6) Indomethacin given as a single dose 4 hours prior to sacrifice resulted in a significant depression of 14C-arachidonate incorporation but did not affect granularity of interstitial cells.
(7) The projection-matrix recovery step can be performed in a matter of seconds; thus the benefits of signal recovery are gained without a significant sacrifice in computation time.
(8) Two injections of the alpha 1-adrenoceptor blocker prazosin 45 and 90 min before sacrifice, alone or together with the beta-blocker propranolol, prevented the increase in plasma AVP found in SCGx rats 6 h after surgery, and the decrease in plasma AVP and the increase of NIL-AVP found 16 h after SCGx.
(9) We can never sacrifice fundamental fairness for political gain, and we should never value expediency over justice – especially in matters of life or death.
(10) In group I (torsion maintained), unilateral torsion of the spermatic cord was maintained until the day of sacrifice; in group II (torsion and untwist), torsion of the spermatic cord was maintained for 8 to 12 hours, then the spermatic cord was untwisted and the testis was retained until the day of sacrifice.
(11) Selected anaerobic bacterial groups in cecal and colonic contents of clinically healthy pigs fed a corn-soybean meal production diet were determined at sacrifice after 4, 8, and 11 weeks on feed, corresponding to intervals within the growing-finishing growth period.
(12) The percentage change in total hemolytic complement activity (% delta CH50) was determined between serum obtained prior to sacrifice and at t = 0.
(13) He skirted round the issue of historic responsibility for the misery but referred to the sheer scale of the sacrifice, pointing out that, among more than 14,000 parishes in the whole of England and Wales, only about 50 so-called "thankful parishes" saw all their soldiers return.
(14) But from others there is a sense that Microsoft has had to sacrifice a potentially progressive view of the console industry to win back consumer support.
(15) Both men had been members of the peshmerga for more than 30 years, and each had stories of struggle and sacrifice that were true to the Kurdish force's legend.
(16) The results imply that the traditional methods of sacrifice may result in the measurement of spuriously low tissue concentrations of some peptides, e.g.
(17) Thus the G20 leaders, faced with the still gathering failure of the global economy, see no alternative but to sacrifice another $1 trillion .
(18) Histological examination after sacrifice at wk 52 revealed that the incidences of tongue papillomas and esophageal squamous cell carcinomas in the groups given MNAN followed by catechol (57.1% and 64.3%) or resorcinol (50% and 58.8%) were significantly higher than those in the carcinogen only controls (9.1, and 0%, respectively).
(19) Bone histomorphometry with double tetracycline labelling and cartilage histology were performed after sacrifice on days 28 and 56.
(20) Provided that one is prepared to sacrifice some of the additional information provided by the multiple PGSE gradient approach, it is possible to construct a velocity image alone by means of a single PGSE phase-encoding step.