How To Use Sacked In A Sentence

Even though he has in effect been sacked, he will trouser a ￡150,000 bonus.
After posting a "sunny, bright, cozy loft" on the rental marketplace, the woman, who uses the pseudonym EJ, returned to find the apartment ransacked by a renter using the name "DJ Pattrson. ABC News: Top Stories
The 18th century saw incessant warfare between the colonial powers, towns repeatedly sacked, and islands taken and retaken, often for use as bargaining counters at the peace.
At this point in the economic cycle, they are piling up like used tires: debt-sacked college kids who can't get jobs, foreclosed homeowners, failed small-business owners, pink-slipped employees, millions suddenly ejected from the middle class and now a couple Republican candidates who won't be our next president. Occupy Mitt Romney!
Six days later the health board announced that because of cost overruns clinical and support staff were to be sacked.

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On a third-and-2 play, Manning was sacked for the only time, by Tim Dobbins, back at the 1, forcing Hunter Smith to punt from the end zone. Somber Colts again searching for answers, facing long winter
What can now be said is that the youth workers' employer has sacked the woman involved after an investigation into her conduct.
The quarterback was sacked on the 45 yard line, and it was first down for the other team.
Meanwhile, more religions are ransacked for metaphor than Joseph Campbell ever shook his shtick at.
The gangs sold their booty, families tried to earn money from their belongings and neighbours ransacked the homes of anyone who had not returned from prison. Times, Sunday Times
York war veteran Joe Munday today spoke of his anger towards thieves who ransacked his house and stole his prized medals.
The crooks prised out the kitchen window and ransacked the house. The Sun
Three maritime workers in Queensland face disciplinary action and may be sacked by their ship towage employer for attending the rally.
Their houses by the river, to the number of twenty-two (_palagi e case grandi_), were sacked and burnt, and many among the chief of those who bore the Bardi name were driven from the city. Romola
They tied her to a chair in the nursery and then ransacked her house looking for cash and valuables. The Sun
Any employee who is sacked has an automatic right to appeal.
Four wardens employed by the agency were sacked in May after allegations of burglary.
It was promptly announced to Harvard dealers that the rebel had been sacked from Sheppards.
After that, I won my appeal at a council hearing but, instead of reinstating me, they promptly sacked me again.
Three Dell employees have been sacked by the company in the past seven months for taking drugs at work.
There's a minister who today deserves to be cross-examined by his boss, carpeted, and possibly sacked.
Exasperated by the apparent chronic incompetence of the new Children and Family Court Advisory Service, he sacked the entire board.
He allegedly then ransacked the house, stole a gun from a safe, and fled in the homeowner's vehicle.
It illegally sacked its entire waterfront workforce and attempted to replace them with secretly trained strike-breakers.
A landlord who was tied up and threatened at knifepoint while balaclava-clad raiders ransacked his Brentwood pub has told of his horrific ordeal.
He was pre-empted by a question from the audience seeking an explanation as to why the former democratically-elected team had been sacked.
A wall of wood, which alone shall abide unsacked by the foemen; A Historian For Our Time
Savi's house and shop were sacked as the crowd moved toward the commercial capital away from the site of detention.
Even though he is not being sacked, it realistically means the end to his slimy crawl up the political ladder.
His personal style was often abrasive, and he came close to being sacked by Eisenhower.
I've ransacked the house for those papers, but I can't find them.
In 1204, the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople and huge amounts of artistic treasures were taken to the West in the form of plunder, to fill cathedral treasuries and decorate cities across western Europe.
They hid out in empty houses as Rabbani's Tajiks entered and sacked the city.
Thieves had ransacked class seven, stealing exercise books belonging to Year Five children age 10.
Mosul University library, with its rare manuscripts, was also sacked, despite appeals blared from the mosque minarets to the people to stop destroying their city, the Arab TV network al-Jazeera reported.
If he had done this while still in his job his employers would have sacked him.
The robbers then ransacked the premises and stole £3,000 worth of cigarettes and a substantial amount of cash.
Management decided the office was overmanned and sacked three junior typists.
There are many who were shocked by Thatcher's use of the word golliwog, Adrian Chiles and Jo Brand among them, and many more who are equally outraged that she could be sacked for uttering it. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
Ransacked: Ania Cerelczak outside the gallery in Great Guildford Street Bungling thief drops mobile during ram-raid at gallery Robbers smashed their van into a London art gallery in a ram-raid that caused thousands of pounds of damage. Evening Standard - Home
In 1204 the Crusaders and Venetians attacked Constantinople and sacked the city.
SACKED Jody says he's GLAD to be out of Hell's Kitchen - away from 'plonker' Grant Undefined
The tile company had callously sacked 29 regular workers and replaced them with casual labour supplied by Skilled.
Earlier today the Prime Minister sacked 18 government officials for corruption.
The burglars ransacked the house but found nothing valuable.
The implication is that between now and then the auditors directly employed by the commission are sacked (and join private firms) or somehow retain their pensions and benefits (at huge cost to the public purse) and are magicked across into the private sector. Abolishing the Audit Commission does not add up
Earlier today the Prime Minister sacked 18 government officials for corruption.
Burglars ransacked the house, taking £1,000 of jewellery, silver and china and the family heirlooms.
Once inside, the Greek soldiers poured out of the horse, sacked Troy, and burned it to the ground, carrying off plenty of wealth and numerous Trojan women in the process.
As soon as the band stops being compliant to what the record label needs them to churn out or start to under-perform they are sacked.
‘When he went back into his home, he found that two rooms had been ransacked and the cash stolen,’ he said.
He's not a well man, you know, and his most consistently highly-paid gig has just upped and sacked him.
He had been sacked from his job as a warehouseman, losing £200 when he was ripped off by another prostitute and thrown out of his flat after a prostitute was found there.
On the same night a farmer's house was sacked because he had bought some 'boycotted' hay. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
Both parties have sacked the treasury, and the only thing left for them to take is the grainery. The Savage Nation Party?
Anawrahta's capital, Pagan, was sacked by the Mongols in 1287 and the city with its many thousand pagodas and temples was abandoned.
So I set to and ransacked the lockers, where, amongst a vast variety of miscellaneous matters, I was not long in finding a bottle of very tolerable rum, some salt junk, some biscuit, and a goglet or porous earthen jar of water, with some capital cigars. Tom Cringle's Log
Another Egyptian army sacked a nearby town and killed all its inhabitants, but then likewise withdrew.
In 1585 he travelled to the West Indies and the coast of Florida where he sacked and plundered Spanish cities.
Someone who works for my company was rather famously sacked recently for blogging about his work, and not even in a seriously vituperative way - just an occasional mild grizzle.
The Royal Mail sacked the two postal workers on the grounds that they had taken " excessive " sick leave.
The boss sacked a dilatory worker yesterday.
The fire raged until the outfit slipped beneath the surface. proles were unable to tight off the flow from the well before the set up cost submerged, raising the possibleness that oil sacked be gushing into Gulf waters. WN.com - Photown News
The second cocky khaki Kicky-Sack sock plucker I sacked since the sixth sitting sheet slitter got sick.
But unions would be effectively debarred from holding a strike ballot in support of workers already sacked for taking part in unofficial strikes.
I am writing to express my great disappointment to learn that one of your employees has been sacked.
Management decided the office was overmanned and sacked three junior typists.
Housing estates have been burnt down, schools ransacked, shops looted.
The tide turned when Tamerlane invaded their territory and in 1398 successfully raided Delhi, and sacked it without mercy.
If you breach the Code of Conduct, you could be up for disciplinary measures, you could even be up at the end of the day to be sacked.
Only British Telecom volunteered the information that in the past year, 61 out of 108,000 employees had been sacked for that type of misconduct.
There has been lots of looting and lawlessness, with government buildings, hospitals, schools, libraries and museums ransacked.
The catering group warned it would not reinstate sacked employees, but would look at ‘other alternatives’.
Following complaints from readers, the newspaper's faith in its columnist plummeted and he was sacked.
During that season, San Francisco sacked enemy quarterbacks 61 times.
Ever since the Parliamentary Commissioner began his inquiry into Caroline Spelman she has been in an odd political limbo land, neither sacked nor acquitted. The party chairmanship just got a lot more attractive
They tied her to a chair in the nursery and then ransacked her house looking for cash and valuables. The Sun
The quarterback got sacked behind the line of scrimmage.
I heard on the television yesterday that thirty-five people had been sacked from the interior ministry so that may be an encouraging sign.
The head lecturer was sacked for seducing female students.
Marcus Warner aka keir Hardley returns His new blog is Southpaw Grammar It is a very open story about how he was sacked , why he was sacked and the consequences. Archive 2007-09-30
The union yelled blue murder when one of its members was sacked.
Shaking a little at first but gradually warming to his theme, the sacked Chancellor dealt John Major a devastating blow.
the barbarians sacked Rome
He knocked on the door and, when the woman opened it, he pushed her inside and ransacked the house, escaping with her handbag, purse and glasses.
You can be sacked on the spot for stealing.
Gone were the rucksacked school kids, chattering and chasing around the old ladies who hobbled along almost in slow motion with yappy dogs and hair in a bun and little trolleys full of bread.
Management decided the office was overmanned and sacked three junior typists.
Twice burglars in my pay ransacked her house. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
One faith rises and another declines, the very scenario that prompted Augustine to write The City of God De civitate Dei after Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410. SuperCooperators
Especially the bit where Achilles has sacked the temple of Apollo and goes out onto the hilltop to raise his sword to the cheers of the army on the beach below.
The reality is, as the Sunday Times points out, that not only is being sacked from a Labour Government all but impossible, if it does happen there is immediate solace available to all, regardless of competence, probity or any thing else you might care to name. Stop The Gravy Train, I Want To Get On!
Others who took part in the event included Dr Ang Swee Chai, author and orthopaedic surgeon; Baroness Jenny Tonge, sacked from the Liberal Democrats front bench in 2004 after saying that she would consider becoming a suicide bomber if she was Palestinian; and Joceylyn Hurndall, the mother of peace campaigner Tim Hurndall, who died after being shot by an Israeli soldier. So british jews are anti-semitic?
And that's the issue that's been lost in this whole campaign Workers being sacked and replaced by casual labour and scabs.
The whole flat had been ransacked.
I ransacked the house looking for my purse.
Invaders from the south ransacked the town.
The economy, ransacked by successive leaders, now teetered on the brink of collapse. Times, Sunday Times
Sources say the officer will appear before a police disciplinary board within months, charged with gross misconduct which carries a maximum penalty of him being sacked from the force. Ian Tomlinson death: G20 police officer to face dismissal before Christmas
I, for instance, listen largely to Radio National, which has in recent years been shanghaied by this Government and is now less likely to present an unbiased view for fear of being sacked and general de-funding.
Answering the siren call of Egypt once more, Amelia Peabody and her family arrive at their home in Luxor to learn of a new royal tomb ransacked by thieves. The Golden One: Summary and book reviews of The Golden One by Elizabeth Peters.
But his employers sacked him, saying he was guilty of gross misconduct.
One witness said a police station in the central town of Kaolack had been ransacked, while state radio said the local headquarters of Wade's liberal PDS had been burned down. Protests sweep through Senegal after Wade poll ruling
Because the Jets and Giants shouldn't be the only ones sitting at home getting fat this Sunday, we've ransacked the minds of some of NY's most esteemed chefs & barmen to bring you easy-to-make recipes packing flavors so explosive, you'll think Antonio Cromartie's tweeting about you. Thrillist: Super Bowl Super Snacking: Easy Grub for Game Day
Commanding 36 ships and 2000 fellow buccaneers, Morgan sacked the town and left his men to the burning and looting.
They smashed the windowpanes of the cinema, damaged the furniture and ransacked the canteen.
Post-election violence was expected, and the interior minister was sacked during the campaign for suggesting that civil war might ensue unless the poll were delayed.
But after a trick play in the first minute of the second quarter, called a flea-flicker, resulted in his being sacked by three Giants, including all-pro linebacker Lawrence Taylor, Theismann was left sprawled on the bermuda grass of RFK, his lower leg pinned under his body. Strasburg, Theismann and D.C. sports injuries
They ransacked the house searching for a gun for almost 12 hours but it was not found.
This ‘guardian’ of the environment wasn't even sacked, only suspended (until the fuss died down).
She ransacked the wardrobe for something to wear.
If somebody is sacked or other drastic measures are taken, there is no requirement for them to be mentioned.
A strike by Royal Mail staff at Wythenshawe has been called off after a postwoman sacked for not wearing a cycle helmet was given her job back.
But splitting his responsibilities with another MP would at least save him the indignity of being sacked.
The quarterback was sacked on the 45 yard line, and it was first down for the other team.
He had been in the police force for 15 years, rising to the rank of detective constable but was sacked following his conviction.
Shortly afterwards her house was ransacked. Times, Sunday Times
They were ordered not to move or speak for an hour while the riot squad searched and often ransacked their rooms.
A ‘safe’ haven was considered to be the government public service, a secure job where you were never sacked and slowly mouldered away doing as little as possible.
The owner of a mail order lingerie business which was ransacked by burglars has spoken of her disgust at the intruders.
Sadly, pathetically, while he was hospitalised his neat single storey home was broken into and ransacked in an obvious search for money.
But when the Americans launched a withering counterattack the defenders sustained heavy casualties and were forced to abandon the town, which was subsequently ransacked. Times, Sunday Times
Two employees have been sacked and 120 others face dismissal for joining earlier protests.
I kept my keys in a'safe' place and as a result my home was ransacked. Times, Sunday Times
Wang's mausoleum was sacked soon after his kingdom was toppled.
He was sacked from every other job for theft, harassment of female staff or vandalism.
Last July the spotlight was on 125 miners at the Oakdale mine who were sacked with $6.3 million in entitlements owed to them.
He was sacked for computer misuse.
The reopening of the embassy building comes four years after a mob ransacked it in a protest over Western sanctions. Times, Sunday Times
Earlier today the Prime Minister sacked 18 government officials for corruption.
They smashed the windowpanes of the cinema, damaged the furniture and ransacked the canteen.
Then, an army of warriors and men dressed in black cowls came from the direction of Plunder castle and sacked the town.
Key demands from the loosely-aligned opposition coalition known as the G7 are the reinstatement of three ministers sacked by the president in the wake of the walkout. ANC Daily News Briefing
Every room in their home was turned over and ransacked by the raiders in their search for valuables.
The meeting heard that two workers had been sacked on the spot with no official reason given.
She ransacked her house hunting for the ticket, before remembering she still had the play slip. The Sun
When he demanded £5,000 to cover the costs of his journey south, Cecil and Buckhurst ransacked the accounts and found no credits whatsoever.
With teachers still raw from the layoffs, she told a business magazine that an unspecified number of the sacked educators "had had sex" with students or had engaged in corporal punishment. Michelle Rhee outspoken to the end of her tenure as D.C. schools chancellor
Then he bound her hands and ransacked the house, stealing what is believed to be a few hundred pounds.
After a sleepless night, I managed to reach her in the morning and she confirmed that I was about to be sacked.
He was allowed home after one night, only to find his house had been ransacked in his absence. Times, Sunday Times
Bledsoe, who was sacked 54 times last year, was constantly pressured in exhibition games.
Sacked alfalfa meal or pellets are usually less expensive (and being "stemmy," have a slightly higher C/N) than leafy, best-quality baled alfalfa hay. Organic Gardener's Composting
Meanwhile, Texans rookie David Carr was again hounded by a relentless pass rush and was sacked nine times. NFL - National Football League - Houston vs. Cleveland
Young artists ransacked antique shops and archives to find spiritual nourishment beyond the groundwork that had been laid waste.
Half a dozen senior people in the energy ministry, recently sacked on suspicion of taking bribes, may well join him.
When police failed to catch the burglar who ransacked her dying mum's home, Georgina Artingstall decided she would solve the case herself.
I've ransacked the house for those papers, but I can't find them.
Sources at the town hall also confirmed the yardman, responsible for operating the weighbridge, was sacked after another disciplinary hearing.
But that relief would have quickly turned to a different flavor of alarm when the victims realized that Under the pretext of a drug search, the five-man robbery crew ransacked the Locklear home in search of large amounts of cash that could be "forfeited" - that is, stolen - as alleged drug proceeds. LewRockwell.com
Two years later, the former Bolton bouncer and third Mitchell brother Stig Tofting was sacked by his Danish club AGF for alledgedly chinning four of his team-mates. The Knowledge | Who were the first team to use a Christmas tree formation? | John Ashdown
The victory included the reinstatement of five sacked strikers and payment of full wages.
Kidman's thriftiness was sometimes interpreted as meanness, but while he sacked employees for trivial waste, he was generous enough to donate properties and money to charitable causes.
But his employers sacked him, saying he was guilty of gross misconduct.
He also said a petition was circulated calling for the reinstatement of an officer sacked for using racist language.
The men have been locked in a wrangle with their employers since they were sacked in 2000 amid allegations of bullying and harassment.
The whole flat had been ransacked.
These decrees forced companies to rehire or retire all those workers who had been sacked as a result of strikes or industrial action in the railway industry.
Earlier this week former Wallabies coach Bob Dwyer called Deans "pigheaded" after that recent defeat and ex-Test hooker Jeremy Paul, during The Rugby Club on Fox Sports, went so far as to call for Deans to be sacked if the team lose this weekend. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
Earlier today the Prime Minister sacked 18 government officials for corruption.
He was sacked from his radio show and his concerts flopped.
A SHOCKED great gran died after suffering a heart attack when she found her home had been ransacked by burglars. The Sun
But there are no guarantees for any of the sacked workers on pensions, re-employment or maintenance of wages and conditions of work.
The Bears offense trotted back out, Mr. Umenyiora again sacked Mr. Cutler on third down and this time, when the ball came loose, Giants safety Deon Grant corralled it, giving his offense the ball on the Chicago 29. Giants' Defense Slams Bears
Every single psephologist, political pundit and pollster must now resign, be sacked, or better yet, commit suicide.
Any employee who is sacked has an automatic right to appeal.
Bruschi created it when he blitzed from the right side, sacked Boller and jarred the ball loose. USATODAY.com
Expectations were naturally high that those that would replace the sacked ministers would be men and women of proven track record of performance, and not merely recycled deadwoods. Vanguard
Thieves ransacked the office, taking a sack of loose change.
In 1916, he served as an aide-de-camp to General Pershing in his expedition against the Mexican Pancho Villa who had crossed the American / Mexican border and sacked the town of Columbus in New Mexico.
The former manager gave his first news conference since being sacked.
The tile company had callously sacked 29 regular workers and replaced them with casual labour supplied by Skilled.
The subject firmly grips a ransacked, unfashioned garment secured by a simple-knotted line of inter-woven string.
The shops have been ransacked, their steel shutters ripped away. Times, Sunday Times
I looked to the end of the conveyer belt where the pile of groceries were waiting to be sacked.
Following an internal probe, 12 members of staff were sacked for flagrant breaches of hygiene rules.
His lengthy absence from work fuelled rumours that he might have been sacked.
After he finished violating her, he then ransacked the room stealing 1,000 baht in cash and other items before leaving.
Speculation is rife that he will be sacked.
The sacked workers were in defiant mood as they entered the tribunal.
His Columbia University office was ransacked and he was subject to a seemingly endless litany of lies about his character.
A library had been ransacked and shops looted. Times, Sunday Times
They were the only ones who saw daylight unhampered by collar and chain, let out to gather even more gullible strays and errant pets into a pack to be corralled, sacked, and dumped into the kennel.
Earlier today the Prime Minister sacked 18 government officials for corruption.
I've ransacked the house for those papers, but I can't find them.
So, in a way, it ` s illogical to get sacked from the police for being a non-activist BNP member when another police officer might be involved in BNP activism but hasn ` t joined up. Ruralshire Constabulary lost data scandal! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Attics were ransacked with uncustomary thoroughness.
Blake has alleged that he was sacked from the programme after he complained about a faulty animatronic suit he had to wear as a Tombliboo character. Archive 2008-01-01
He discovered the house had been ransacked and his car taken when he returned. The Sun
The Police ransacked the village, killed 20 persons in indiscriminate firing, and set fire to two busses.
These scholars had the unenviable task of explaining why their patrons eventually sieged, overran, and sacked Carthage in a door-to-door killing spree that left only fifty thousand survivors out of an estimated population of seven hundred thousand. David Durham explains his interest in Hannibal and refutes the historical concept of him as a brutish barbarian.
The radicals in the party were clearly sacked to propitiate the conservative core.
They did that six weeks ago and won reinstatement for two sacked fitters in the test area.
So he sole out an 'went to whah dey was re - cruitin', an 'hired hisse'f out to de Colonel for his servant; an' den he went all froo de battles everywhah, huntin 'for his ole mammy; yes in - deedy, he'd hire to fust one officer an' den an - other, tell he'd ransacked de whole Souf -- but you see I didn't know nuffin ''bout dis. A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It
Great Rome will soon be sacked with Romans, for her boy is coming home; the child of her instinct, the son of her ignorance, the son of her RELIGION, is _coming home_. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
The shops have been ransacked, their steel shutters ripped away. Times, Sunday Times
About 500 workers imposed a blockade on the factory on October 14 after being abruptly informed that the plant was closed and the workforce sacked.
The sacked workers have not been reinstated and their case has been submitted to arbitration.
In a move which surprised commentators, the president sacked several cabinet ministers.
Reuters filmed houses with their doors smashed in and ransacked by US troops as they searched for weapons.

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