How To Use Sacrifice In A Sentence
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His parents made a lot of sacrifices to make sure he got a good education.
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In meetings Thursday with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, the country's army chief and others, Gates called the antiterror operations a success so far, "and he acknowledged to all of them that we realize that has come with a great deal of sacrifice for the military," Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said following the sessions.
Stars and Stripes
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Ravel sacrificed something for form, for a vegetable that people must digest before bed.
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Love for others, concern for justice and the poor are not so much a question of social morals as the expression of a sacramental conception of Christian morality because, through priestly ministry, the spiritual sacrifice of all the faithful is accomplished, in union with the sacrifice of Christ, the only mediator.
Pope on the Essential Elements of Priestly Ministry
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He can try to save those countless millions but only by the sacrifice of his ship and crew.
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A hard-nosed unmoveable man, who sacrifices his lovely daughter to ward off future kidnap threats on his beloved son.
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Some pro-ana websites feature anorexia prayers and sacrifice rituals.
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She sacrificed family life to her career.
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For many the sacrifice of British sovereign power was too great a price to pay.
Times, Sunday Times
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Surely, no flame of piety, idealism, or self-sacrifice could burn in the cold hearts of its citizens.
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Shakespearean tales of love as sacrifice, conquest or unrequited passion are beyond reason.
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Some of the early church fathers used to argue that marriage was more of a sacrifice than celibacy.
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Therefore go and sacrifice the sheep in the house, cut off the legs and bring them here; thus the carcase will be saved for the choregus.
Peace
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In their homelands a horse would have been sacrificed to the old gods.
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Such is human nature in the West that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay for the privilege of becoming white collar workers.
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Their history is replete with heroic deeds of selfless devotion and supreme sacrifice over the years.
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The term implies sacrifice or taking less than what could be earned in the private sector or in an entrepreneurial position.
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It was the culmination of years of boycotts and demonstrations, of freedom rides and sit-ins, of protest and struggle, of sacrifice and suffering.
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In 7th century India members of the Thug cult would ritually strangle passers-by as sacrifices to the Hindu deity, Kali.
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Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
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Tom Staple would have willingly been impaled before a Committee of the House, could he by such self-sacrifice have infused his own spirit into the component members of the hebdomadal board.
Barchester Towers
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You must be ready to make sacrifices.
The Sun
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When someone died, the kahuna aumakau (priest of the appropriate ancestral deity) of the dead person came and ritually sacrificed a pig or a chicken to ensure that the soul would live with its ancestors.
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The translation sacrifices naturalness for the sake of accuracy.
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We must do everything in a spirit of individual sacrifice for the common good.
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Say the opponents have sacrificed in 5. over your 4..
Times, Sunday Times
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The sacerdotal role of the Christian laity, whose spiritual sacrifice and virtuous life makes a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit, is placed in complete opposition to the formal procedures of the Roman clergy.
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Our workers are being sacrificed on the altar of globalism.
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Originally, he may have been pouring a libation from a patera, as is common in similar sacrifice scenes belonging to this iconographic topos.
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She was prepared to sacrifice having a family in order to pursue her career.
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In order to be in tip-top shape for the upcoming Olympics, athletes must train vigorously and sacrifice time that they would normally spend with their families or their loved ones.
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The sacrifice had nothing to do with death, but more or less the converting of a white sorcerer or sorceress into a black one.
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By this substitution of a sure job for a possible masterpiece, military science made a deliberate sacrifice of capacity in order to reduce the uncertain element, the bionomic (read biological) factor.
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Has the president ever discussed with his children the idea of enlisting and making the "sacrifice" that he asks others to make?
Easter Lemming Liberal News
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The democratic rights to freely choose one's occupation and place of residency, as well as to immigration and asylum, are being ruthlessly sacrificed to the interests of big business.
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Her sacrifice & committment is to herself when she left Alaskans for the glory of being VP without a Lt. Governor and then leaving her elected seat to make money and do her beauty contestant walk & turns.
Palin to visit Fort Hood during book tour
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The woman was a seething cauldron of grievances against the man for whom she had sacrificed almost two decades of her life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Irigaray wonders why law and community have to be founded on violence as in Freud's founding of culture on parricide in Totem and Taboo and symbolic sacrifice as in Girard's Violence and the Sacred: ‘Why did speech fail?’
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The king's persistency in begging her not to veil so austerely a face which the gods had made for the admiration of men, his evident vexation upon her refusal to appear in Greek costume at the sacrifices and public solemnities, his unsparing raillery at what he termed her barbarian shyness, all tended to convince her that the young
King Candaules
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After all, both in reality and cinema, heroism consists of self-sacrifice: the sacrifice of life and freedom.
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When the Americans did not give up but rather kept building more planes and tanks, the Japanese responded with massive suicidal attacks, believing that Americans, selfish and mongrelized, could not stand up to such a show of national unity and self-sacrifice.
Sea of Thunder
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Not all the notions concerning sacrifice are entirely absent from our lives.
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Consequently, the Mass is the impetratory and propitiatory sacrifice.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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We find ourselves in a world system of globalization willing to sacrifice millions of human beings.
Christianity Today
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Retirees have already made sacrifices, Maroni said.
Italy Faces More Pressure To Find Growth
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He can sacrifice, forcing the first or third baseman to field the ball and make a play away from the lead runner.
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I mean, I'm willing to sacrifice my poulkes for some kugel and kishke.
Carin Davis: Honey Cake: The Fruitcake of the Jews
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Many of these ancient practices were not just for the sake of it, but were meant to be subtle reminders of the need for mutual give and take, besides sacrifices and adjustments, to ensure wedded bliss.
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The plodding pace at which he batted meant those following him had to sacrifice their wickets to the cause.
Times, Sunday Times
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If, however, we include in the term morality the transitory display of certain qualities such as abnegation, self-sacrifice, disinterestedness, devotion, and the need of equity, we may say, on the contrary, that crowds may exhibit at times a very lofty morality.
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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Said stories were so popular that they grew into a religion known today as Catholicism/Christianity and featuring dark-age, daily wine to blood and bread to body rituals called the eucharistic sacrifice of the non-atoning Jesus.
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Muslims may not eat any food that has been sacrificed to idols, but kosher is fine.
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The environment should not be sacrificed for a ha'p'orth.
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Relations with the ancestors and respect for Nyamwezi traditions are maintained through ritual activity such as animal sacrifices and other ceremonies.
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This quaint ceremonial, still annually observed in the secluded capital of Buddhism-the Rome of Asia-is interesting because it exhibits, in a clearly marked religious stratification, a series of divine redeemers themselves redeemed, of vicarious sacrifices vicariously atoned for, of gods undergoing a process of fossilisation, who, while they retain the privileges, have disburdened themselves of the pains and penalties of divinity.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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What kind of diety would ask a father to sacrifice a child?
Meaningless
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It's wrong to sacrifice quality to quantity.
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You must carry on that history with complete dedication and self-sacrifice.
Writers in Hollywood, 1915-51
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Such kind Samurai moral originate in self - sacrifice from " Hagakure ".
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When the crops fail, as they inevitably do, the temporary king is sacrificed so a new king can be anointed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Burn with righteous indignation , martyr sacrifices for equality, do the mankind to liberate emancipator.
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The losses and sacrifices suffered in terms of academic advancement had been construed to be the destiny of life.
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Disgusted with the bland, palliative Lutheranism of his day, he stresses duty, self-sacrifice, and total commitment.
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All it's done is remind me that when self-sacrifice is held up as a moral ideal, whatever you give will never be enough.
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After some research, I see that one can sacrifice goats in order to gain riches or appease the gods.
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Neville Chamberlain was greatly affected by the death of his cousin Norman and determined that such sacrifice should not be wasted.
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There I saw a piece of ye jury wall as its Called being in arches and was a place where the Jews burnt their sacrifices.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
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But after you made such a sacrifice, will still a good Samaritan?
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The custom of human sacrifice combined with the burial of the victims in bogs is connected to the Celtic culture of the time,
This Is Not a Spade: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney
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Just as an aside, Perry Forde, despite nicotine withdrawals was in fine fettle and led her team to victory in a riveting match-up led by quizmaster Billy Varley who also had to make the supreme sacrifice.
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I think what also countervailed any condemning supposition that Roosevelt sacrificed servicemen to get the US into a war with Japan was the real determination, lethality and tenacity of the dictatorial enemies of the US, and Europe.
AP Poll: Bush Is Both the Biggest "Hero" and "Villain"
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Since the sacrifice of a single one of these cargo vessels caused terrible losses, merchants yearned to avoid the inevitable.
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The time when stalwart men the world over bravely sacrifice their appearance, their romantic relationships, andany chance of career advancement.
Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Month of the moustache
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People are willing to sacrifice all sorts of things in their desire to be heroes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cross, she said, is the symbol of the sacrifice of the ideal to the nonideal. ...
The Seattle Times
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Now, it is clear that this sacrifice is brought as a consequence of impurity from the fact that the same sacrifice of two turtle-doves or two pigeons is brought by a leper, a woman who has had an impure issue, and one who has just given birth.
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He ordered the Temple in Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Greek gods and forbade the practice of circumcision, kashrut, and observance of the Sabbath.
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Lenape, "their worship consists of two parts, sacrifice and cantico," the latter "performed by round dances, sometimes words, sometimes songs, then shouts; their postures very antic and differing.
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
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“Hear, King Moloch!” called Hasdrubal, lifting his swarthy arms to heaven, then striking them with his sword till the blood gushed down, “suffer us to escape this calamity and I vow thee even my daughter Tibaït, — a child in her tenth year, — she shall die in thy holy furnace a sacrifice.”
A Victor of Salamis
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She may have originated with the notion of human sacrifice to ensure plentiful crops, for her actions were often bloodthirsty.
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They were accused of the stubborn refusal to accept Christ's Godhead and His sacrifice.
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Typically for the time, this strange group was interpreted by the excavators as being the victims of human sacrifice.
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Whenever you have an aim you must sacrifice something of freedom to attain it.
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IT is often hard to know how to say thank you, especially when a genuine sacrifice has been made on your behalf.
The Sun
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Though my Brooklyn hometown is lousy with lovely craft beers such as Cigar City's mango-hinted Jai Alai IPA, Sixpoint's bracing Crisp lager and Firestone Walker's balanced, citrusy Union Jack IPA, there are hundreds of brews I'd sacrifice a pinkie to sip every day.
Food Republic: 5 Craft Beers Worth Traveling For
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Hamilcar, it is true, might have lost his velites, only half of whom remained, but he would have sacrificed twenty times as many for the success of such an enterprise.
Salammbo
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No claque of paid liars can cheapen the sacrifice and nobility of the cause.
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Some questioned the political gain of such self-sacrifice, or of trying to take down a heavily guarded fence in a gesture of dubious symbolism.
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The film however plays down overt preaching, treating the themes of good, evil, sacrifice and redemption as the kind of cornerstones that any classic drama is built on.
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He has a greater appreciation of sacrifice.
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It is the profound, incurable, and inextirpable bigotry of the English people, to which they will not hesitate to sacrifice the national honour, the public happiness, their own liberties, and their own consciences ... ....
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
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The Taoist ignited the loess - made yellow paper when offering sacrifice.
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Within some Christian traditions, the altar is still a place of sacrifice, where a priest or pastor commemorates the sacrifice of the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
Charles Howard: Deep Calls To Deep: Re-imagining The Altar Call
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The sacrifices that the people at my place have given have apparently gone unnoticed.
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How quick we have forgotten the sacrifice demanded of those whose homes and communities that stood in the way of the inner relief folly.
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He is immortal 6, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible 7voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion 8and sacrifice9 and endurance.
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• "I say sacrifice style any day for becomingness.
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICON OF STYLE: Edith Head, The Most Famous Costume Designer of All Time (PHOTOS, POLL)
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Through self-sacrifice we must show people that service of the public is a life-building motivation.
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When we say we're afraid to exercise those liberties, we dishonor their sacrifice and we disgrace ourselves.
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Nor will the eternal movelessness that is coming to me be made easier or harder by the sacrifices or selfishnesses of the time when I was yeasty and acrawl.
Chapter 8
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This policy must be overturned now to ensure their sacrifice is properly recognised.
Times, Sunday Times
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As an Arab American, I can empathize with Shirley Sherrod, In the midst of this crisis, I wrote a number of short pieces on a few websites charging that she had been "lynched" and was a victim of a hysterical mob spurred on by lies and cowards in authority who, out of fear or political calculation, had sacrificed her to a mob refusing her right to a fair hearing.
James Zogby: I Understand Shirley Sherrod
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I rose and was about to clap my hat upon my head and burst away, in wrathful indignation from the house; but recollecting — just in time to save my dignity — the folly of such a proceeding, and how it would only give my fair tormentors a merry laugh at my expense, for the sake of one I acknowledged in my own heart to be unworthy of the slightest sacrifice — though the ghost of my former reverence and love so hung about me still, that I could not bear to hear her name aspersed by others — I merely walked to the window, and having spent a few seconds in vengibly biting my lips and sternly repressing the passionate heavings of my chest, I observed to Miss
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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You don't have to sacrifice environmental protection to promote economic growth.
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From the repeated allusions to offering, oblation, and victim, it becomes clear that the action is a sacrifice.
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He had promised Aphrodite a hecatomb, a sacrifice of 100 oxen, if he won Helen, but forgot about it, and earned her wrath.
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It is natural to weigh our sacrifices against their results, although the process brings little consolation, for so often in our superficial view the results are minified beyond our vision and the sacrifice fills the whole horizon.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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That Bruno himself, in "the enthusiasm of the idea," drew from his axiom of the "indifference of contraries" the practical consequence which is in very deed latent there, that he was ready to sacrifice to the antinomianism, which is certainly a part of its rigid logic, the austerities, the purity of his own youth, for instance, there is no proof.
Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance
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News that the beautiful daughter of the chief was to be sacrificed to give the people rain spread across the country like wind.
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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In those days people might sacrifice a goat or sheep to propitiate an angry god.
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The designers have sacrificed speed for fuel economy.
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Every year on the anniversary of D-Day, for example, we acknowledge the heroism and sacrifice of those who stormed the beaches of Normandy.
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This enraged many U.S. expansionists, not least Thomas Benton, who called the concession “a gratuitous and unaccountable sacrifice” that had “dismembered the valley of the Mississippi, mutilated two of our noblest rivers, and brought a foreign boundary to the neighborhood of New Orleans.”
A Country of Vast Designs
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A period of passionate love gives way to companionate love, where there is a readiness to accept and acknowledge a partner’s flaws and sacrifices are made for each another.
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The reasons they invent businesses and make sacrifices are much more varied and complex.
Times, Sunday Times
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Aristotle, at Politics 128036-8, remarks that ‘thusiai’, groups which sacrifice together, are a precondition for the city, along with families, phratries, and other works of friendship.
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Well, I'll just be patient and hope and pray and offer up sacrifices to whatever god is willing to help us out.
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The sides of these little sarcophagi are covered with _bassi-rilievi_, many of them finely executed: the subjects are combats and that favorite theme the boar-hunt of Kalydon; there was one which represented the sacrifice of a child.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
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My labours (if I may so term that which was the comfort of my other labours) I have dedicated to the King; desirous, if there be any good in them, it may be as the fat of a sacrifice, incensed to his honour: and the second copy I have sent unto you, not only in good affection, but in a kind of congruity, in regard of your great and rare desert of learning.
Selected English Letters
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You have still suggested that, as a Norse Neopagan, I should be prevented from being a foster parent (I would note that I am also an advocate of reviving animal sacrifice within Norse neopaganism).
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Religious, Cultural, and Personal Right To Eat Bacon — Even When Your Foster Parents Don’t Allow It in Their Home
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This does not mean that they conduct their audits negligently or sacrifice their independence by condoning accounting treatments that are demonstrably wrong.
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He would rather sacrifice his life than see damage done to state property.
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The stadium lights were extinguished and a minute's silence held in remembrance of soldiers past and present, a fly-past by an RAF helicopter underlining the significance of their sacrifices.
Archive 2008-11-01
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This policy must be overturned now to ensure their sacrifice is properly recognised.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
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You are the patron saint of life, your wisdom and sincerity to hold up the sun life, your selfless sacrifice life, heal the wounded bear bitter hardships, pain.
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They would use up excess grain and other food and slaughter old animals - not as sacrifices, but because they were not expected to survive the winter.
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For a few moments she watched the movements of the orphans as they smote their breasts at the "Confiteor," or bowed their heads at the "Sanctus," accompanying the priests who, they knew, in thousands of churches, were engaged in offering sacrifice to God; and reading the
The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Enter
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Few, even among Dutch painters, led such an unadventurous life, yet in his dedication to his art, and the sacrifice of his well-being to his unremitted meticulous toil, he fell little short of the heroic.
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The piacular sacrifice took place several days later, by which time Caesar had readied himself for his journey to take up duty under Marcus Minucius Thermus, governor of Asia Province.
Fortune's Favorites
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No sooner has a cease-fire been signed than it is broken, and Big Brother in either case exhorts the citizens, known as proles, to make ever greater sacrifices, especially their liberty.
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To thee, at thy birchen altar, with true Spartan devotion, I have sacrificed my blood.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Churches that have not been abandoned entirely are used for occult rites, animal sacrifices, and Black Masses.
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It is a compelling account of a commonly flawed man who accepted the sacrifices of service and survived with honor.
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It bears wonderful witness to the far-reaching power of evangelistic preaching, self-sacrifice, and persistent house-to-house visitation.
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War, of course, provided the readiest source for idealized displays of self-sacrifice.
The Times Literary Supplement
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God knows how many sacrifices, prayers and sufferings have been offered to support me in my service to the church, how much benevolence and solicitude, how many signs of communion have surrounded me every day.
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In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man.
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Back in the old days of 2002 I used to think that the point was to create an endplay in which the exclusionary rule, right to counsel, and such “had to be sacrificed” on the altar of our safety.
I Said I Said What I Said | ATTACKERMAN
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In all these respects the impetratory and expiatory Sacrifice of the Mass is of the greatest utility, both for the living and the dead.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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When Jesus Christ died on the cross as your supreme sin sacrifice, His blood didn't just seep into the ground and return to dust.
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This is my humble salute to their supreme sacrifice.
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He also says China can no longer sacrifice the environment for what he describes as rapid and reckless development.
China Lowers Growth Forecast to Curb Inflation, Pollution
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A generation ago, it was the women who sacrificed a postdivorce social life to care for the children.
Sex & Love: The New World
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Selfish- a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice. George Eliot
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Vajapeya sacrifices, or if he undergoes the severest austerities with head downmost.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
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If I live, sir, she will have to become the wife of Rivers; and, though I love her as my own -- as I have never loved my own -- yet she must abide the sacrifice from which, _while I live_, there is no escape.
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia
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The sacrifice of the cosy is a price many creative artists have thought worth making.
The Secrets of Musical Confidence
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Although her economical style can sacrifice immediacy and intimacy, this is a fiercely indignant and justly cynical work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Formerly I had fasted and prayed and made sacrifice on the Day of Atonement, but it was more than half play, in mimicry of my elders.
The Promised Land
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It means you have to leave home and that requires a big sacrifice in terms of leaving your family behind.
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Expert players are often able to judge exactly when to make a sacrifice bid.
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Try to break your pattern of self-sacrifice and self-sabotage, and stay on the road to good health.
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He went under the razor and sacrificed his crop of red hair to raise money for his son's special school.
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There are several theories about this, ranging from the dull (a goat might have been the prize at the Dionysia), to the moderately convincing (goats may once have been sacrificed to choral song, which evolved into tragedy as we know it, like in Antigone, etc.), to the highly impertinent (choral singers were young men much like goats in that they were hairy, smelly, and licentious).
Small joys « paper fruit
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The grisly human sacrifice described by Dio Cassius is presented as the work of a handful of violent drunks and is quickly stopped by an appalled Boudica, and a little Roman boy is horrified by a bear-baiting in the arena.
Boudica, Queen of the Iceni
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The defects which Maty insinuates, “Ces traits saillans, ces figures hardies, ce sacrifice de la regle au sentiment, et de la cadence a la force,” are the faults of the youth, rather than of the stranger: and after the long and laborious exercise of my own language, I am conscious that my French style has been ripened and improved.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings
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Their names are engraved in plaques on this monument, as are the names of our Aboriginal men who paid the supreme sacrifice during the Second World War.
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Temple at Jerusalem, with all that about the 'Mark of the Beast;' that mock (I suppose it was _mock_) miracle, with the fire consuming the sacrifice, and then that awful portent of darkness, thunder, and lightning -- but no rain.
The Mark of the Beast
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We should not pay politicians to sacrifice manufacturing and build windmills.
Times, Sunday Times
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O'Grady's accounts of the Elizabethan wars find heroism only among the ordinary members of the warrior class as brave and honest pawns sacrificed to the intrigues of their self-seeking leaders.
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The sacrifice of time is the costliest of all sacrifices.
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Riesman made the suburbs the prime locale of those who sacrificed their “inner-directed” opportunities in order to be “other-directed” by the prevailing manners and mores of their community.
Suburbs of Our Discontent
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Although 27 years might be stretching it a bit, I think I could make that sacrifice in this instance.
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touch the soul of the heart not sacrifice.
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For good measure, it has been built to vaastu specifications and, before its departure, was sanctified by Judev at a special ceremony where 101 coconuts were broken and a goat sacrificed!
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Their activities included group prayers and animal sacrifices for various spirits.
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But the speed and frequency of these interchanges sacrifices the clarity of the monologue, which is a shame as Hotter's script, in the places where is was Ned alone, is impressive.
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She has also sacrificed her family life for her career.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scattered around the airfield are the remains of many Allied and Japanese aircraft, whose aircrews made the ultimate sacrifice for their countries.
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At the time of sacrifice, blood was obtained for measurement of serum calcium, phosphate, and albumin.
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Following a brief sacrifice to the Dragon Fertility Goddess (don't tell Dave!), we will enjoy a traditional breakfast of potatoes and mate de coca, which is basically boiled cocaine and which I'm told puts Starbucks to shame.
Larry Doyle: Share Our Joy
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Her generation of Irish people knew all about sacrifice and were a noble people with a fine sense of community and idealism.
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They cared for their disabled son for 27 years, at great personal sacrifice.
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The English writers thought they found sacrifice in sword dancing and mumming, which sometimes included mock killings; surely this reflected ancient sacrifices, faded to rude play acting?
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Hence his way of life can be sacrificed without compunction, and his protests go unheard.
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Would you sacrifice a football game to go out with a girl?
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Many sacrificed their weekend to join the hunt for the missing girl.
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It is very important because this is one time in the year we all get together to remember those who paid the supreme sacrifice.
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Cooking up a quick dish doesn't mean you have to sacrifice flavour. Nor does fast food have to be junk food.
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Touch the soul of the heart not sacrifice.
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Any hostages in the firing line would have been sacrificed.
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You no longer have to make sacrifices in somebody else's name, trying to get yourself saved or to earn redemption.
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Demonic Sacrifice - The sacrifice effects for the Voidwalker and Felhunter have changed.
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Their battle for success also meant sacrifices in their personal lives.
The Sun
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Replacement keeper Matt Sargeant was brought on and striker Joel Rogers sacrificed, but that did not stop Epsom from being on the wrong end of a real hiding.
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This he pleads with his Father, for his intercession is made in the virtue of his satisfaction; by his own blood he entered into the holy place (Heb.ix. 12), as the high priest, on the day of atonement, sprinkled the blood of the sacrifice at the same time that he burnt incense within the veil, Lev. xvi.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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I count some of these amongst my closest friends - people whose self-sacrifice and unselfish love of truth would do credit to any man.
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Only the one ‘full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world’ will do.
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It followed, that those of the members who enjoyed consequence by means of their station in the ranks of the Vehme, saw the necessity of supporting its terrors by occasional examples of severe punishment; and none could be more readily sacrificed, than an unknown and wandering foreigner.
Anne of Geierstein
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Of the ridiculous statue Manduce; and how and what the Gastrolaters sacrifice to their ventripotent god.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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In Old Testament times, blood from sacrificed animals was applied to certain vessels in the tabernacle or temple to make them holy for God's use.
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After a family feud led him to sacrifice his brother Chumpol as education minister in 1998, Banharn ran the portfolio through a proxy.
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Thus the name indicated the joy of the people at the fancied propitiation of the god by this sacrifice; in antithesis to its joyless name subsequently. valley of slaughter -- It should be the scene of slaughter, no longer of children, but of men; not of "innocents" (Jer 19: 4), but of those who richly deserved their fate.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Workers made some pretty big sacrifices and there was wage restraint on a very wide scale.
Times, Sunday Times
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People in Shang Dynasty frequently prayed for rain and blessing , and sacrifice the mountain devoutly.
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This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice
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His first duty was to them, and it would be "caddish" to let them suspect any sacrifice in its fulfilment.
More about Pixie
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Since alcohol and blood sacrifice were associated with the worship of the goddess, at times it contained an orgiastic element.
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You must be ready to make sacrifices.
The Sun
