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Example sentences for: mutilation

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Traditionalists went to court, but the court rejected their argument that Islamic law authorizes mutilation "as an individual right" beyond the reach of government.
I, for one, mourn the unhappy mutilation of meaning.
A photo essay vividly depicts the brutal rite of genital mutilation in Uganda.
A corpse is discovered in a grotesque state of mutilation, then the scene shifts to an autopsy room where skulls are popped off and innards held up for inspection.
Egypt's supreme court upheld a ban on female genital mutilation . The country's health minister banned the practice (removal of the clitoris and sometimes the labia, often by family members using razors or knives) in 1996.