In his speech delivered before Parliament on November 23d, Caprivi explained that new sacrifices in money and taxation were necessary, in order to make the German army efficient to fight enemies "on two fronts.
There was from the first a widespread doubt among the people of the necessity for such heavy sacrifices as were entailed by this bill, and the possibility of carrying it successfully through Parliament.
After such sacrifices of blood and treasure, such disturbance to the development of industry, art and knowledge among the people, the same confusion prevailed as before.
I understand, that several sacrifices were offered to be made, and among the rest Canada to be given up to France.
Similarly mankind found not only justification but propriety in the human sacrificesto Moloch, and in the holocausts of the Aztec civilization.
I have not actually seen, or even heard of human sacrifices in the tribes I have personally visited.
It plays a less obvious and less frequent part than either sacrifices or the use of charms.
But on the adjacent Upper Guinea Coast, until ten years ago, there were human sacrifices to the sacred crocodiles of the rivers of the Niger Delta.
The very people who made the above declaration to me preserved their family fetich, made sacrifices to the spirits of their ancestors, and appealed to them for aid in their family undertakings.
The sacrifices that had been offered to Jehovah alone were divided for service to other gods.
They merely offer sacrifices to appease them when some evil has befallen the family.
In such cases special sacrifices must be offered before taking any steps.
Among the Wanyamwezi, "Every chief has near his hut a Musimo hut, in which the dead are supposed to dwell, and where sacrifices and offerings must be made.
Sacrifices of sheep are made there, but they are merely in remembrance of the deceased, and have no particular religious meaning attached to them.
There're some impulses in this world too noble to be interfered with or hampered or thwarted, and some sacrifices so fine that none of us should try to spoil 'em by settin' up ourselves and our own wills in the road.
True, the restoration of these unhappy men did not proceed as rapidly as their sacrifices or interests demanded.
And now, blessed day, and glory to the eyes that had lived to see it, and undying honour to the men whose genius and sacrifices had made it possible, the decree had gone forth that end there must be to landlordism.
And Ernest drew her to his heart, and felt that, with all her faults, a woman whom he feared he could not render as happy as her sacrifices to him deserved was becoming very dear to him.
By her present heavy sacrifices for a great ideal, Portugal wins a fresh title to universal consideration, and by helping to vanquish Germany she defends her oversea patrimony, which the Germans proposed to annex.
And how can words pay due tribute to the work and sacrifices of the women and children of England?
They have endured hardships with masculine strength, and have accepted irreparable sacrifices with infinite self-sacrifice.
It is natural then that to-day as well, we can only hold before our people thesacrifices that are once more required of it.
Our unfortunate people up to the present has seen only sacrifices to which it has been subjected for the sake of extending the boundaries of the state.
Sacrifices are made to buy things for the home by every member of the family.
Why should he make sacrifices to free the city from disgrace when his independent neighbor refuses to sacrifice his ease to protect his family from the inevitable evils of a corrupt city government?
To make sacrifices that their wage-earning capacity in the future might be greater would, if suggested to her, have been merely an evidence of how little the rich know of life.
Here an universal and subsisting tradition bore that human sacrifices were of yore offered, while the people assisting could behold the ceremony from the elevation of the glacis which slopes inward.
But on being finally transported to America, John Gibb, we are assured, was much admired by the heathen for his familiar converse with the devil bodily, and offering sacrifices to him.
He was so absorbed with the heroic sacrifices of the soldiers as to be utterly unconscious that he was the great actor in the drama, and that his simple words would live as long as the memory of the heroism he there commemorated.
Just think how wicked it was in him to allow those poor ignorant natives to believe he was a god, and to receive offerings and sacrifices as such!
Within we saw where the sacrifices were laid overnight, and the pit where they were thrown in the morning,--a place called by the natives hell.
Coming back we rode into the village of Kealakekua, and went to the spot where Captain Cook was worshiped, and had sacrifices offered to him.
Maui, thirteen human sacrifices are said to have been offered on this altar to insure him success.
Moreover, though the sacrifices are continued, they are no longer conducted with the decorum of the heathen rites.
One cannot over-estimate the numerous sacrifices which, despite everything, the Turks have made in this line.
No Parliament can rightly be termed incompetent when it has the support of an entire people, when it recognizes its own limitations, and when its members are willing to undergo great sacrifices for their nation's dignity and sovereign rights.
I do all the stinting and make all the sacrifices and your father gets all the respect.
It's worth all the sacrifices we made for such a success like hers.
Infanticide will never cease in China, until the notion that the dead are dependent for their happiness upon sacrifices offered to them by the living shall have been totally overthrown.
She belongs to the same husband, and is dependent for her happiness on the sacrifices offered by her descendants.
Her love for the Redeemer, and hersacrifices for his sake, were the jewels which adorned her on earth, and which lose not their lustre in death.
If we really love them, and if our sacrifices for them while they were here below, were the fruit of our love, then we have only to remember that this is one prolonged, supreme sacrifice for their sakes.
When human sacrifices had become a prominent feature of the native cult and it became a duty of the Cihuacoatl to perform the bloody rite, it is obvious that it became impossible for a woman to fill the position.
An insight having been thus obtained of the origin of blood sacrifices in ancient America, it is possible to understand the meaning of certain representations showing the performance of ritual blood-offerings.
Towards the end of the same month (November), feasts were celebrated for the flocks of the huacas, that they might multiply; for which sacrifices were made throughout the kingdom.
AKRA=Hindu village dancing and marriage ground, where sacred tree is planted and sacrifices made to it in great Naga festival (Hewitt).
They said that when sterile women made offerings or sacrifices to the god Quetzalcoatl, he immediately caused them to become pregnant.
The more the habit of thrift is practised, the easier it becomes; and the sooner it compensates the self-denier for the sacrificeswhich it has imposed.
The masses are too selfish, and fear that advantage will be taken of any sacrifices which they may be called upon to make.
It makes cheerful sacrifices for the present benefit of others; or it submits to voluntary privation for some future good.
The sacrifices and efforts which he made during the last few years of his life, even while paralyzed and scarcely able to hold his pen, exhibit Scott in a truly heroic light.
We offer ourselves too often as willing sacrifices to the fashion of the world, because we have not the honesty to pronounce the little word.
Human sacrifices were established among almost every people, but very rarely put in practice.
Among the Greeks, the story of "Iphigenia" is not well authenticated; and humansacrifices were very rare among the ancient Romans.
There is also a cistern dug in the rock, and after having there washed and purified themselves, they offered sacrifices and prayed to God in silence for three days.
Even carnal passions are not selfish, if by the self we understand the whole man: they are an obsession to which he sacrifices himself.
All the sacrifices that society or religion imposes on a man, when they are legitimate, are based on the same principle.
By a true instinct the early Christian writers called widows and orphans the altar of God on which the sacrifices of almsgiving are offered up.
These concessions were not secured, however, without some sacrifices on the English side.
Sacrifices in other places only accompanied special divine manifestations which made the recipient temporarily a priest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacrifices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
