| The only health hazard from the pyres is the smoke itself, he says, which could conceivably cause problems for asthmatics. |
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| They were mostly Indian cultural ceremonies, but there were also several Europeans cremated on funeral pyres. |
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| The horrific TV pictures of huge burning pyres of animal carcases helped make animal welfare a more sensitive issue. |
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| Jennifer and I were travelling by train and were at Carlisle station when we saw the pyres. |
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| At the urnfield excavated at Kimpton, Hants, two pyres have been identified. |
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| We were almost fed up seeing all the corpses and pyres along the bank of the river. |
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| Later, she burns it, in an image that brings to mind the burning pyres of sheep and cattle. |
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| Pawar, how can you stop the innumerable particles of dust rising from their burning pyres? |
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| And the constant smog brought on by the burning-cattle pyres in Trafalgar Square is making my eyes water. |
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| Just keep away from the burning pyres of fetid animal carcasses, and you'll be fine! |
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| As we were rowed back to the Assi Ghat, the boat veered a little towards the shores where the funeral pyres were burning. |
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| If the funeral pyres are still burning by then, you might have little better to do anyway. |
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| After three short weeks the total of infected farms has risen to 135-19 of those in Scotland and the funeral pyres are still burning. |
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| The dead would seem to have gone to their pyres dressed rather than in shrouds. |
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| Kerosene has been used to light pyres constructed of coal slag, old tyres and tar-soaked rail sleepers. |
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| And as the palls of smoke from the pyres on which animals are being incinerated spread, the livelihood of countless farmers hangs in the balance. |
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| Millions of animals were slaughtered as a precautionary measure and gigantic pyres burned everything. |
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| What will remain with us is the sight on our TV screens of the burning pyres. |
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| Unfortunately, during the recent foot-and-mouth crisis in England, we have had to witness huge funeral pyres of dead animals. |
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| Further down the shore: corpses are being burned, in great open funeral pyres. |
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| The pyres burn night and day but it is illegal to photograph them. |
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| For us the pyres were not on the television screen, they were over the garden fence. |
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| Everything from sides of yak meat to items of laundry was thrown onto the pyres. |
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| Because the crematoria were overcrowded, bodies were burned in pyres fueled partly by the victims' own fat. |
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| So many items were placed on some pyres, that it is tempting to think these must have been tiered like the depictions of some imperial funerals on the reverses of coins. |
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| In some foreign eyes, traffic jams, stalled trains and pyres of burning cows have turned Cool Britannia back into the sick man of Europe. |
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| It may seem a long time ago since we saw the pictures of the burning pyres on the front pages of newspapers in all those Member States affected. |
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| In the Netherlands, they actually carried out vaccinations to try and stop the mass funeral pyres. |
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| The inhabitants of the village of Supino meet to perpetuate the traditional feast of polenta Wholesale antique pots are installed on pyres used for cooking and preparation of polenta. |
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| Fragments of burnt bones, the remains of bodies cremated on pyres, were collected and placed in terracotta hydria decorated with painted motifs, or in stone or alabaster urns. |
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| The bodies of his victims were burned in pyres of wood and car tyres while the assassins stood around drinking and cooking meat in a grim parody of South Africa's famed braai, or barbecue. |
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| But earlier this year, members of the Anglo-Asian Friendship Society asked Newcastle City Council to allow them to build an al fresco site for funeral pyres. |
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| This I can understand, but, for heaven's sake, while thousands of pyres were burning in your countries in the not too distant past, those who fled those pyres gathered in Poland. |
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| We recall the burning pyres and the mass slaughter of animals which, apart from the environmental, economic and public health consequences, caused enormous social disruption in the countries affected. |
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| The scandals associated with foot and mouth disease and the burning pyres gave the world an image of Europe that we must not allow to be repeated. |
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| I hope that these pyres will no longer be needed in future. |
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| His range of alternative funerals includes woodland burials, firework celebrations, brass bands, torchlit processions, burial at sea and pyres. |
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| Can we refer to it as a secret when the pyres burned in public? |
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| Why did Hindu widows throw themselves into their husbands' funeral pyres? |
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| But the Red Army found the bodies and, even now, we question the secrecy of an operation in which the smell and glow of the pyres made their presence be clearly noticed. |
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| Never again must we see the enormous funeral pyres all over the landscape of the north-east of England, which had such a devastating effect on the tourist industry and all related industries, not just agriculture. |
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| Regarding the destruction of animal carcasses, the group was in favour of including more guidance on landfill as an incineration alternative, and on the use of pyres. |
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| The sheer quantity of animal corpses, slaughtered to halt the spread of the disease, meant that the army had to help with their disposal atop vast, smoking pyres. |
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