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- noun Plural form of
carnage .
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Examples
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We must also keep in mind at all times that while posthumous justice for the victims of genocide is an important consideration, the most critical imperative of both Resolution 96 I and the Genocide Convention has always been the prevention of future carnages.
Menachem Rosensaft: Criminalizing Mass Murder: 65 Years After The UN's First Condemnation Of Genocide Menachem Rosensaft 2011
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We must also keep in mind at all times that while posthumous justice for the victims of genocide is an important consideration, the most critical imperative of both Resolution 96 I and the Genocide Convention has always been the prevention of future carnages.
Menachem Rosensaft: Criminalizing Mass Murder: 65 Years After The UN's First Condemnation Of Genocide Menachem Rosensaft 2011
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Recent incidents of carnages and natural disasters imply that even a simple shopping, holiday or business trip can take an ugly turn instantaneously.
Disposable Pre-paid Mobile Phone by Shirley A. Roberts » Yanko Design 2009
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Besides this the families who have lost their members due to individual militant killings and carnages like Sangrampora, Vondhama, Chatisinghpora, Hugam should also be provided the accommodation on the priority basis.
Priority should given to camp dwellers while allotting quarters to displaced KP���s at Jagti :AIKS 2009
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It wanted, for the best intentions of course, to destroy the old rules that he believed had been at least partly responsible for the carnages and ravages of the first half of the 20th Century and create a new – fairer – better – society.
Archive 2008-06-01 David Hadley 2008
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We call on all road users to be always vigilant so that such road carnages can be prevented.
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(And then the insects return to these carnages, which they then join as roadkill, and the unending cycle goes on.)
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It wanted, for the best intentions of course, to destroy the old rules that he believed had been at least partly responsible for the carnages and ravages of the first half of the 20th Century and create a new – fairer – better – society.
Within The Rules David Hadley 2008
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Every day, Iraqi television is rife with images of ruthless carnages on the streets.
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The prince was with his battle down among the vines and had closed in the weakest part with their carnages.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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