"sacrifice" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In the context of the day it was lost-and indeed nearly that whole month-it was a needless sacrifice, because at the time, we appeared to be losing-badly.
- A needless sacrifice continues because the American occupation of Iraq, and its bloodshed, continues.
- Don't let it be a needless sacrifice.
- Our bill keeps the dolphin-safe label honest, lifts the trade embargo on all tuna imports of dolphin-safe tuna and spares dolphins from needless sacrifice.
- That counsel makes the Administration's policy-pinching in favor of politics look like a needless sacrifice of idealism for ambition or misguided loyalty.
- Whenever my authority would permit I saved my command from needless sacrifices and unnecessary toil; therefore, when hard or daring work was to be done I expected the heartiest response, and always got it.
- Saddened by Claudia's needless sacrifice, Amanda decides to mend her ways.
- You say the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington commemorates needless sacrifice and betrayal.
- Ideals, for Vaz, interfere with practicality, since they admit choices which many times require needless sacrifices, both for oneself and for others.
- Hill intended the Stonehenge replica to express that modern warfare (like Druid sacrifices as he understood them) was a form of needless human sacrifice.
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