(a.) Of or pertaining to sacrifice or sacrifices; consisting in sacrifice; performing sacrifice.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to spokesman Vladimir Markin, the murder was either a set-up by the opposition to use Nemtsov as a “sacrificial victim”, a personal issue, a settling of scores between radical groups fighting on either side of the Ukraine conflict, or an act of Islamic terrorism.
(2) The results of this investigation suggest that the accumulation of denture plaque may be prevented by frequent application of a renewable, sacrificial coating of a non-toxic polysaccharide.
(3) The BBC Trust has asked Thompson to review the corporation's structure and his weak denial of a plan to axe 6 Music suggests the station will be one of the sacrificial lambs to prevent wider privatisation.
(4) According to the Beijing News, the well-known Babaoshan crematorium will ban mourners from incinerating funeral clothes – a common sacrificial offering meant to keep the dead clothed in the afterlife – during the first two weeks of November.
(5) Changes in ovarian biosynthesis and the effects of administered luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) on its activity during the course of the estrous cycle were studied by measuring the in vitro conversion of carbon-14 from carbon-14-1-acetate into progesterone (P), 20alpha-hydroxy-pregn-4-en-3-one (20alpha-OH-P), and estrogens in ovarian homogenates from rats sacrificied at 2-hour intervals.
(6) On this day, when our Saviour poured out his very life for the world, we share the following statement in a spirit of sacrificial and reconciling love.
(7) There is an inclination for ritual, with serious sacrificial moments such as the drowning of a key manuscript in the Regent's Park canal (Books Do Furnish A Room), or the death - could it be possible after all?
(8) These include self-sacrificial suicides that advance altruistic values and expressive suicides that demonstrate a fundamental interest in a cause or situation.
(9) The UK is in no position to support us as it will succumb to Spanish demands: we will be the sacrificial lamb on the altar of the benefit of the many in the UK,” he says.
(10) Polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) micromechanical structures can be made by selectively etching an underlying sacrificial oxide layer.
(11) But look, if ... I’m going to be the sacrificial lamb and save everyone else, well so be it, but I don’t believe so,” he said.
(12) The UK is in no position to support us as it will succumb to Spanish demands: we will be the sacrificial lamb on the altar of the benefit of the many in the UK.
(13) But the story is a psychological document of Hawthorne's propensity to see girl-children as the sacrificial victims of their father's vanity.
(14) Flash photolysis has been used to effect electron transfer from tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) to cytochrome c oxidase in the presence of a sacrificial electron donor, aniline.
(15) Just as Antin went through this sacrificial act of starving, I thought [taking steroids] was a necessary act."
(16) It was decided it was Corbyn’s turn to be the sacrificial lamb.
(17) Otherwise we run the risk of being the sacrificial lambs of Brexit,” said Jane Golding, chair of British in Europe.
(18) While the astaxanthin content remained virtually constant in salmon steaks during storage, the content decreased significantly in steaks of rainbow trout, an observation which suggests the role of astaxanthin as a sacrificial protector against radical processes.
(19) "However, I am not convinced that using 6 Music and the Asian Network as sacrificial lambs to pay for it is the right approach.
(20) Ours indeed was a land of shame,” she wrote, “a land of murder, and a land of strange, throttled, sacrificial women.” O’Brien’s autobiography has a kernel, an unforgettable scene.