Not that it necessarily has to be a symbol of modernism and innovation that is targeted for immolation. |
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Female infanticide was common, and the practice of sati, the immolation of the wife on her husband's funeral pyre, was encouraged, sometimes even forced. |
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And residual bad feeling about The Scots' immolation of Wetherby in 1314 can only explain so much. |
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But for those who cannot bear to continue watching the immolation of their country, Abu Samer is often their best bet. |
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But the idea of sacrifice has been realized in a unique and decisive way in the immolation of Christ on the Cross. |
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Back then, Labour would not listen, and the Tories became lucky bystanders at the historic immolation of public funds. |
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Both see morally mandated personal development as a form of self-destruction, an immolation of one's desires and impulses for the sake of something extrinsic to the self. |
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A ceremony that sometimes appears to be an immolation or sacrifice, celebrated on a primitive altar. |
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The innocent Lamb was slain on the altar of the Cross, and yet from the immolation of the victim new life burst forth: the power of evil was destroyed by the power of self-sacrificing love. |
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He supposedly saved one inhabitant from immolation in a kitchen fire and another from having her head crushed by a cinderblock thrown through the window. |
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Jordan has ratcheted up its air strikes in Syria since IS broadcast video footage in February showing the immolation of a Jordanian pilot captured there. |
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Willa's immolation in the fire that destroys not only her, but also her husband and his mansion, opens up the possibility of a female household unbeholden to patriarchy. |
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Mancini spoke of the immolation of the deutsche mark, but it is Italy that now faces immolation at the stake of monetary union to which it is chained. |
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In the emotionally charged Immolation Scene that concludes the opera, the former Walkyrie calls for her steed, Grane. |
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