(1) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
(2) The son of the slain Afghan police commander (who is the husband of one of the killed pregnant woman and brother of the other) says that villagers refer to US Special Forces as the "American Taliban" and that he refrained from putting on a suicide belt and attacking US soldiers with it only because of the pleas of his grieving siblings.
(3) Facebook posts about slain members appeared soon after.
(4) Groups of women from outside the city arrived bearing photos of their relatives, slain victims of femicide.
(5) The Spanish forward showed good determination to beat Amorebieta to James Milner's long ball into the box but looked as though he had been slain by an assassin's bullet when he got there.
(6) Much earlier, he was the mole finally unmasked by Sir Alec Guinness and slain by Ian Bannen in John Le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979).
(7) The charismatic daughter of the slain hero of Burma's campaign for independence from Britain has a huge international following.
(8) He said all embassy workers were now safe and offered his condolences to the family of the slain guard.
(9) The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, a charity created after 11 September 2001, has said it will pay off the home mortgages of the two slain officers.
(10) On Sunday, he said neighbours saw two funerals for slain fighters, one with four bodies and one with two.
(11) That’s where we as a country were 50 years ago, as civil rights organizers prepared to march the 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery to honor the recently slain church deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson and all the other nonviolent activists shot and killed by police and white vigilantes.
(12) Contemporaneous accounts report his body was found among others slain, a halter was thrown around his neck, his naked body was slung over a horse with head, arms and legs dangling, and he was bought to a church in Leicester and irreverently buried.
(13) There were few professional athletes more demonstrative in their disgust with the fatal shooting of the unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin two years ago than LeBron James, who protested by convincing his Miami teammates to pose for a special photograph donning hoodies like the one Martin wore when he was slain, then told his tens of millions of fans on social media: We Want Justice .
(14) Two early recorded instances of dental identification of men slain in battle during the fifteenth century are given.
(15) According to one investigation, between January and September 2009 more than 1,400 civilians were slain in the provinces of North and South Kivu, at least 701 by the FDLR and the rest by Congolese and Rwandan government-allied forces.
(16) Yesterday Novak Djokovic, the four-time champion, was slain at last by the magnificent Stanislas Wawrinka - what a backhand on him, eh - and today one of Andy Murray or Federer is bound to follow.
(17) The story called “ That’s my boy: kids witness war’s horror ” was about Khaled Sharrouf’s Australian son holding up the decapitated head of a slain Syrian soldier.
(18) And baby turkeys were slain, their limbs torn apart,” the Dallas Morning News reported at the time.
(19) I saw my mother’s dead body two days ago,” said Naimul Khan, son of the slain Nazma Khanam.
(20) Children pull T-shirts to their noses and mouths so they don't retch but cannot resist peering at the slain young men.
Valhalla
Definition:
(n.) The palace of immortality, inhabited by the souls of heroes slain in battle.
(n.) Fig.: A hall or temple adorned with statues and memorials of a nation's heroes; specifically, the Pantheon near Ratisbon, in Bavaria, consecrated to the illustrious dead of all Germany.
Example Sentences:
(1) We’re not going to insist on a black man being cast in Valhalla Rising any more than we would insist on a woman being cast in The Shawshank Redemption.
(2) And Only God Forgives is dedicated to Argentinian director Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose 1970 acid-western-cum-vision-quest El Topo offered the direct inspiration for Valhalla Rising.
(3) Those who encountered Refn through his hyper-stylised LA thriller Drive might bridle at Only God Forgives, whose fugue-state narrative style, amnesiac and futureless, has more in common with Valhalla Rising, the hallucinatory but only intermittently engaging Viking movie he made before Drive (though parts of it were magnificent, including Gary Lewis's Scottish pagan talking of the barbaric Christians: "They eat their own god; eat his flesh, drink his blood.
(4) Describing her feelings on being appointed the first female editor of the New York Times , Jill Abramson said it was as if she had arrived at Valhalla.
(5) The sun was setting between Eigg and Rum as we reached the deserted beach, only to find "VALHALLA DANCEHALL" spelt out in seaweed letters two foot high, which stumped even the locals.
(6) At half past one, ribbons and streamers of pearly light were tossed down from Valhalla and glowed over the bay.
(7) In our experience over a 10-year period at Westchester County Medical Center (Valhalla, NY), we diagnosed 11 left atrial myxomas and three primary cardiac malignancies in ten females and four males, aged 18-74 years.
(8) The resistance (Valhalla equations) and skinfold methods showed the narrowest 95 per cent limits of agreement, when compared with the deuterium dilution technique, while the weight and height equations showed the widest limits of agreement.
(9) Abramson, a former New York Times Washington bureau chief and investigative reporter who has been managing editor since 2003, said being appointed editor of the title was like "ascending to Valhalla".
(10) The Jackson, Pollock, and Ward SKF equation and the manufacturer's equations for BIA (Valhalla) and NIR (Futrex-5000) were used.
(11) With these two objectives, we compared the prediction of minimal weight (MW) among 57 interscholastic wrestlers using three anthropometric methods (skinfolds (SF) and two skeletal dimensions equations) and three BIA systems (Berkeley Medical Research (BMR), RJL, and Valhalla (VAL].
(12) He has joined Gandhi and Martin Luther King in political Valhalla.
(13) DNA typing was performed by standard techniques using purchased DNA probes (Lifecodes Corp, Valhalla, New York).
(14) Refn's films look like nobody else's (although, admittedly, 2009's Valhalla Rising was pretty Malick-like).
(15) Nux is, in fact, a suicide bomber of sorts, whose worship of the great wheezy leader, Immortan Joe (the movie is set in a ravaged post-apocalyptic future 45 years hence), means he dreams only of a “historic death” in which he will reach Valhalla through an act of homicidal martyrdom.
(16) Miliband’s ascent to the Labour leadership in 2010 appeared to give him some hope of achieving what he once described as “a socialist Valhalla” in Britain.
(17) It is concluded that in this population, the resistance (Valhalla equations) and the skinfold thickness methods were the best predictors of body composition as measured by deuterium dilution.