| He would probably have been compelled to commit punk hara-kiri by impaling himself on a winklepicker. |
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| Yet every time Tariana Turia tried it, the worm all but committed hara-kiri. |
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| He even pledged he would commit hara-kiri if he could not offer evidence of this five days before polling day. |
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| But hopefully with my advice you won't be reduced to returning home in a depressed state and committing hara-kiri in your bathtub. |
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| The Japanese commander, Saito, committed hara-kiri and left his troops without leadership. |
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| A frequent reason for committing hara-kiri was in a lost battle to avoid the disgrace of falling into the hands of an enemy. |
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| This man, a superior samurai named Yogo Zenemon, has been ordered by the lord, for his own reasons, to commit hara-kiri, or ritualistic suicide by disembowelment. |
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| When Pinkerton finally reappears, bringing his American wife with him, Butterfly bids a desperate farewell to her boy before retiring behind a screen to commit hara-kiri. |
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| The player simply announces the act of hara-kiri and removes the Samurai or Busho from the game. |
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| After failing to launch a right-wing military coup in 1970, he committed hara-kiri, ritually disembowelling himself before being decapitated by an assistant. |
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| After failing to launch a military coup in 1970, he committed hara-kiri, ritually disembowelling himself. |
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| In the final, disarmingly quiet scene of The Sun, the emperor is informed that the young sound technician who recorded his speech of renunciation has committed hara-kiri. |
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| We're not out to commit economic hara-kiri with industries in this product business. |
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| Disgrace and defeat were atoned by committing hara-kiri or seppuku. |
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| The day after the surrender, he committed hara-kiri or suicide. |
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| Most fortunately, to date the corporation's board of directors has resisted and refused to do so, refused to commit a kind of hara-kiri. |
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| After earnest consideration, the ronin were ordered to commit hara-kiri. |
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| Nagase said he had also hoped to meet an elderly female resident in the area who had reportedly said her wartime lover, a Japanese soldier, had committed hara-kiri there. |
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| These days in music are sad between the economical crisis, the business ever evolving transformation, the boys bands created for screaming teenage girls, you could easily to want to commit a hara-kiri with your ears. |
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| It was a chilling spectacle — like watching someone commit hara-kiri in public. |
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| The guy would rather commit hara-kiri under a cypress tree in Carmel than utter a pretentious statement. |
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| During the samurai days, we just give you a knife and ask you to commit hara-kiri. |
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| In June Mr Cao suggested that the head of BP America commit hara-kiri because of his poor handling of the oil spill. |
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| Without footsteps, the retailer commits hara-kiri. |
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| It probably won't be Research in Motion, which appears set on hara-kiri. |
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| If he doesn't win here, and win convincingly, his strategy of betting on the later, bigger states will go down as a prime example of political hara-kiri. |
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| But with GSM players lobbying hard for more spectrum, taking MVNOs on board now would be hara-kiri. |
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| Salamé had warned Vieira de Mello that the influence of Iraq's neighbors would increase in the coming months, and he said that the Americans had committed hara-kiri by demobilizing Saddam's Army. |
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| As it turns out, its creators knew that for a fact as they chose to commit hara-kiri with an undisputable touch of class, instead of trying to juggle with time. |
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| In Japan, the tradition of accountability which once caused leaders to commit hara-kiri lingers on among managers, who take their responsibilities very personally. |
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| It's the story of a group of samurai whose lord has been put to death — ordered to commit hara-kiri — by the shogun, and whose castle has been confiscated. |
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