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immolation

[ UK /ɪməlˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˈɪməˌɫeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. killing or offering as a sacrifice

How To Use immolation In A Sentence

  • Demonstrations, self-immolation, and an active underground press became the primary means of resistance.
  • This self-image explains in part why Bouazizi's self-immolation after the police confiscated his vending cart proved such a galvanizing event.
  • There are other forms of self-immolation, less instantaneous and less spectacular, to which doctors may not contribute.
  • All I can say to anyone who votes for it is that when their souls suffer eternal immolation in Hell, they can Damn well roast a wienie over the flames. Is Passing Health Care Forgivable? | RedState
  • After a Tunisian vendor was banned by local police, he could not stand it and resorted to self-immolation.
  • Since the Tunisian revolution on Jan. 14, at least five Egyptians have attempted suicide by self-immolation in imitation of the young Tunisian whose burning-death in December first galvanized protesters. Egyptian Opposition Is Divided on Protests
  • Over the past several years, experts say, this kind of defiance has been accompanied by an even more dangerous form of protest: suicide by self-immolation.
  • The death by self-immolation of a 19-year-old student in Prague in protest against conditions in the Czech Republic has shaken that country.
  • And in Mauritania's capital Nouakchott, police sources said Yacoub Ould Dahoud, 40, a company director and member of a wealthy family, staged a self-immolation protest on Monday against alleged government mistreatment of his tribe. Horrifying Copycat Suicide Protests Sweep North Africa
  • For the writer, they are themselves murderers, guilty of ‘grave crimes and offenses,’ including the most dreadful crime of all: the deicidal immolation of the Son of God.
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