The move follows pressure from animal rights groups and many vets who claim it is barbaric to dock tails for cosmetic reasons. |
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The organizers must do everything they can to prevent barbaric, inhumane acts of violence from occurring there. |
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He subjected the 27-year-old mother to a savage, barbaric, and brutal ordeal. |
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That would have been a cruel, barbaric and completely unnecessary level of violence, wouldn't it? |
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May we change barbaric, vulgar, and amoral political behavior via the political aesthetic? |
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All my children have been engaged in this right now, though they are biased about it being primitive, barbaric and a bit too demanding. |
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It was the barbaric form of primitivism that the print media continually drew from in its characterisations of my research. |
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Those who don't like boys-only schools would say they are barbaric and uncivilised. |
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He did not think that Kiril was below him, that he was barbaric and uncivilized. |
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The death of any living creature to satisfy an urge based in a primitive and barbaric past is morally wrong. |
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The Indians were thought of as uncivilized, barbaric beings, but much to the immigrants' surprise, they were mostly wrong. |
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What can we, the uncultured, unsophisticated, unwashed, barbaric, tacky and ignorant masses learn from the Mother Continent this time around? |
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He rejects empiricism, reason and logic for a primitive bloodlust that can only be described as barbaric. |
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What a contrast between the amity and beauty of the temples of Khajuraho and the primitive, barbaric, dehumanised events in Gujarat. |
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Many believed that slavery was a barbaric and primitive institution and that those who condoned it were, therefore, primitive and barbaric. |
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They would act as messengers and help organize or establish the central government to calm the barbaric behavior of these primitive races. |
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He implied that there were civilizations and civil peoples, barbaric societies and uncivil peoples. |
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Britain in 1954 was not barbaric towards its prisoners and miscarriages of justice were hardly common. |
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Many aikidoka have been led to believe that Daito-ryu is barbaric, unrefined, and spiritually bankrupt. |
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Both hunters quickly mounted and shouted a barbaric battle cry to their enemies. |
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The community of this tranquil village has been shocked and traumatised by this senseless and barbaric crime. |
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It shows how ideas that seem absurd and barbaric to most of us nowadays were the undisputed norm only a century ago. |
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In a satirical perspective, it may be blaming us for disregarding funerary rituals, for keeping death in an undomesticated, barbaric status. |
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Nacy Thompson is a bondager, a farm laborer forced to live in virtual slavery, her life dictated by the cruel and barbaric whims of her masters. |
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Moist, borborygmic gutturals, appropriately barbaric riffs and tendon tearing blastbeats are all available in abundance here. |
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There is no way that in our modern, civilised society that we can allow this barbaric, medieval practice to continue. |
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It's much too barbaric and such things are left to bar fights and street brawls. |
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His development is retarded and he will forever be handicapped by the barbaric treatment at the hands of his own family. |
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To claim that God engages in this same capricious and barbaric behavior is to blaspheme God. |
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They were convicted and executed, despite a massive outcry from all over the world against this barbaric treatment. |
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One has only to read Tacitus to realize that the barbaric extermination of masses of people was not a Hitlerian innovation. |
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The reality is that it takes the barbaric murder of 50 chinchillas or other furry animals, on average, to produce a full-length coat. |
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Such a cold-blooded and barbaric punishment degrades everyone involved in the murder. |
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This can be looked upon as cold-blooded and barbaric and not fit for today's modern society. |
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Some professors, lawyers, judges and doctors are making barbaric and inhuman decisions. |
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Their conduct was not only inhumane and barbaric, it was also plainly illegal. |
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The interior ministers saw no reason to stop this inhumane and barbaric practice, however. |
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The State continues to tolerate the barbaric treatment of timid animals in live hare coursing which was recently outlawed in the North. |
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Last Thursday's ban on the barbaric sports of hunting and coursing with dogs is a great and long overdue advance for animal welfare. |
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Lobby your MP, otherwise our silence will allow this barbaric practice to carry on. |
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The procedure is pretty barbaric and is not to be described here more definitely. |
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Their crimes are punished by a barbaric law, that of June 10, 1835, the sole penalty of which is execution. |
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They think our attempts to legislate morality are barbaric, puritanical and doomed to failure. |
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That is the way a lot of people cope with doing such a horrible, gruesome, barbaric job. |
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They see barbaric, irrational isolationist Luddites bent on plunging an entire nation into darkness. |
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His plans were bold and fiery, and his conceptions glowed with barbaric lustre. |
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I also hope now more than I ever did during my life that people wake up to what a barbaric punishment this is. |
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Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric. |
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Call me heartless, barbaric, unforgiving, or what you will, but I can not understand this attitude at all. |
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Gripping the Ruler with two hands, he launched himself at the demon with a barbaric yawp. |
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Some kids emerged as the true heirs of Whitman, barbaric yawpers singing their own songs of themselves. |
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Widespread as it may be, it is nevertheless a way of thinking that is profoundly amoral, unethical and indeed barbaric. |
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Now if it is barbaric to flog in school where it really should start, how can licks be of any help to a hard-back criminal? |
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The sati is the epitome of the obedient wife, but her burning is irredeemably barbaric. |
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No. To me the idea that words or taunts can enrage somebody to kill and act out of anger, and our judicial system says that's okay, is barbaric. |
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British psychiatrists viewed manacles and leg irons as barbaric symbols of the asylum's dubious past. |
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A French philosopher had more in common with a Chinese mandarin than with his barbaric Frankish ancestors in the Dark Ages. |
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I believe in free speech and free expression but these barbaric people are going too far and need to be stopped. |
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If those who have the power to change this law have listened to my story, then I hope they will see that the law is cruel, barbaric and inhumane. |
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Many will voice the opinion that circumcision is a cruel, barbaric procedure that can traumatize the baby. |
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First, will this new society ever stop the cruel, barbaric treatment of farm animals that suffer from their birth to their horrific death? |
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Hare hunting is a cruel and barbaric pastime carried out without respect for our wildlife. |
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It was a gradual understanding of the sheer wrongness of my actions by my participation in such a cruel, barbaric industry. |
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Hunting has nothing to do with pest control and everything to do with a cruel, barbaric pastime. |
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We too are firmly of the view that a line needs to be drawn on the barbaric and cruel country pursuits steeped in the feudal values of an age gone by. |
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History will judge the actions of your government as cruel and barbaric. |
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Rome wants and needs to be a capital of dialogue and peace, not a barbaric battleground. |
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The image of children being disposed of in such a barbaric and depraved manner outraged people across the world. |
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Sunnis view Shi'ites the way white South Africans viewed blacks, and now feel disenfranchised, seeing the barbaric heathens threatening to rule their country. |
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He would replace a government that is instituted to protect our inalienable rights with one that enforces his own barbaric moral code and bigotry. |
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As usual the hunters show complete disregard, even contempt for people who live in this village many of whom, like me, are totally opposed to this wicked and barbaric pastime. |
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It is an atmosphere of terror and bloodshed, a devilish scene of chaos, a barbaric game which is not governed by human discipline, rules and regulations of the sport. |
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He guillotined existentialism just when we needed most to hear its howl, its barbaric yawp that there is something in common between God and all of us. |
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In its strive to adopt Western civilizations, the Imperial Meiji government banned tattooing as something considered a barbaric relict of the past. |
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One is an ethical commonplace, that slavery is intrinsically barbaric, regardless of the particular identification of the slaveholders and the enslaved. |
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Perhaps she has forgotten that every year, millions of animals, including rabbits, minks, foxes, and raccoons, are trapped in the wild in barbaric steel-jaw leghold traps. |
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. |
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It is not known that there exists one good reason for attachment to the splinter bar, or why a barbaric and antiquated method should be longer adhered to. |
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I too am not a bit tamed... I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. |
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It is nothing more than barbaric and the sooner it stops the better. |
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Five minutes later, Keyan was in the medical bay, stripped down to his boxers, with a medic fussing over him, muttering oaths about how barbaric the fights were. |
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This guy defended his actions with these extremely lame statements that show how clueless he really is to how cruel and barbaric his actions were. |
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The dastardly act which has caused so much pain and misery to the American people and indeed all peace lovers around the globe, was barbaric and devilish. |
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The death and torture camps, barbaric prisons for political opponents and routine beatings for anyone suspected of disloyalty are well documented. |
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Then from the inner room came the servants again, carrying two crowns like great hieratic tiaras, barbaric diadems, composed of pearls of the finest orient. |
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The practice of setting dogs onto animals for sport is cruel and barbaric and should remain history. |
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Drawcansir rakes and Tunbelly Clumseys alike become, to progressive eyes, inadmissible relics of a barbaric past. |
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Condemning APS and Shikar Pur incidents, he said the two incidents were barbaric and inhuman acts of terrorism. |
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His accounts of barbaric northern tribes could be described as an expression of the superiority of Rome, including Roman Gaul. |
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By defining the German culture as barbaric in these passages, Caesar hopes to justify his conquest of the Germans in the eyes of his readers. |
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They came from the North and everyone knew that the colder the climate was, the more barbaric the people were. |
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During the 5th century, North East Italy was devastated by the barbaric invasions. |
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In the postelection euphoria of autumn 2008, Casting was a sobering reminder of barbaric wartime policies scarcely behind us. |
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Ideas of medieval surgery are often construed in our modern mind as barbaric, as our view is diluted with our own medical knowledge. |
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They are yawps, barbaric or otherwise, sounding over a living, writhing world. |
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Today, a brain operation for premenstrual syndrome might seem barbaric, but there were many well-meaning doctors in accordance with the idea. |
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Likewise, Vargas Llosa labels the Andean barbaric, leaving Hispanicization as the only option for the indigenous cultures of Peru. |
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I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. |
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A similar situation existed in Tsarist Russia, where the native Russian was widely disparaged as barbaric and uncultured. |
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The natural state of humanity, according to the authors, is barbaric and unorganized. |
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So the Chinese and Central Asians are the barbaric, faceless, yellow horde that may once again drown the noble Slavs. |
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It was a violent and barbaric sport and I wanted nothing to do with it. |
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In Ireland, a hybrid system of marches existed which was condemned as barbaric at the time. |
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What possible explanation could there be for this barbaric act? |
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During the Conquest, these and other Otomi groups allied themselves with the Spanish, in part because the Aztecs and others considered the Otomi to be backwards and barbaric. |
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The accused was found guilty of premeditated voluntary manslaughter, committing barbaric acts, attempt to set an inhabited house ablaze, and aggravated theft. |
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To people with brain cells, she is undoubtedly the weakest link for not wanting to find out more about these barbaric blood sports she is intent on supporting. |
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But what was my indignation, vexation and shame when I discovered them greedily engaged in ravenously devouring the semese fragments of a barbaric repast. |
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