(n.) The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed.
(n.) That which is immolated; a sacrifice.
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.
Sacrificed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Sacrifice
Example Sentences:
(1) The animals were sacrificed every 12 hr from D12.0 through D17.0.
(2) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(3) Light microscopic studies of pancreata from mice sacrificed at this time demonstrated insulitis and beta cell necrosis.
(4) Nine months later, the animals were sacrificed, the esophagus and the gastric stump were removed for histologic examination.
(5) Polyribosomes isolated from the livers of rats sacrificed 6 h after treatment with actinomycin D showed a 42% reduction in their capacity to bind anti-RSA Fab'.
(6) After 2 weeks the rats were sacrificed and the brain damage evaluated by comparing the weight of the lesioned and unlesioned hemispheres.
(7) Males were then sacrificed and organ weights, testicular spermatid counts, and cauda epididymal sperm count and sperm morphology were obtained.
(8) Rats were sacrificed at 1.5, 4, 8 and 24 h after injection and heart MIBG activity was determined.
(9) The rats were then sacrificed at either one or four hours after the injections and their brains analyzed for monoamine and metabolite content using High Performance Liquid Chromatography with Electrochemical Detection.
(10) The animals were sacrificed on the 14th day of pregnancy and implantation and resorption indices were studied.
(11) It is a tragedy that he abandoned Iraq, sacrificing the gains secured by American blood and treasure.
(12) The central nervous system of the animals sacrificed in the time course of the infectious process was studied by light and luminescent microscopy.
(13) Twenty-four hours later, at peak severity of the inflammatory response, the animals were sacrificed.
(14) The animals were sacrificed on days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.
(15) Rats permitted to recover for 13 weeks and then sacrificed had lost almost all their rods (p less than 0.001) while the cones were reduced by about 50% (p less than 0.01).
(16) The surgical removal of branchiomeric paragangliomas necessitates preparation of a small saphenous vein bypass in case it is not possible to avoid sacrificing the internal carotid artery.
(17) These rats were sacrificed at various periods after injection of each preparation: 3 hours, 24 hours and 48 hours in all preparations.
(18) Our older population is the most impressive, self-sacrificing and imaginative part of our entire community.
(19) In another experiment, animals were sacrificed on estrus of the next cycle and the oviducts examined for the number of ova.
(20) Implanted rabbits sacrificed after 3 and 6 days showed taking of the new mesothelial cells both by direct morphological observation and by autoradiography.