Immolation in a sentence

ALL of us were there – to the last cough, splutter and angina tablet, ready to watch the immolation of Bojangles’ Aristocrats.

It sparked a series of self-immolation attempts across university campuses.

Spectacular agency, including extreme forms like self-immolation, is not new.

The massacre saw the torture, rape, execution, immolation, and abduction of hundreds of Israeli civilians, as well as widespread Palestinian support for it.

These attempts of demolitions were “once again thwarted by the women of the family who attempted to inflict physical harm upon themselves and threatened self-immolation after barricading themselves within the premises,” the DDA claimed in the statement.

According to a source, Pujarani attempted self-immolation at her parental residence in New Market Colony in wee hours of Saturday.

Amid rumours connected to the swirling in Punjab, a team of health workers was threatened with immolation as they tried to cremate body of a patient at Moga’s Kokri Buttran village in Kot Isey Khan.

Ben Vereen is the beguiling leading player of a troupe who may or may not lead the eponymous prince to self-immolation.

Romper Stomper (Stan): There’s barely a wasted shot in Geoffrey Wright’s 1992 classic about the self-immolation of a violent, racist Melbourne skinhead pack led by Russell Crowe’s fearsome Hando.

Tibetans had turned to self-immolation to publicize and reach a larger audience about just how many people are truly suffering under the Chinese rule.

If the suicide is via, essentially, self-immolation using the house, the property damaged, but there's nobody to charge, so is it still arson?

In Iran, death records cover only two suicide methods: self-immolation and deliberate self-poisoning.

It’s a universal threat that neoliberal self-immolation follows continual adherence to a stale emphasis on globalization and austerity.

Tunisia's revolution began with the self-immolation of a desperate vegetable seller in December 2010, then mass protests that forced strongman ruler Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali to seek exile in Saudi Arabia and soon spread across the Arab world.

And by any measure, today the party drifts toward self-immolation.

A similar case of self-immolation, by a street vendor lamenting unemployment, corruption and repression, led to nationwide protests heightened by social media that brought down Tunisia’s long-time President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.

Images of a 12-year-old girl, Liu Siying, burning and interviews with the other participants in which they stated their belief that self-immolation would lead them to paradise were shown.

So far, there have been many interpretations for the Buddhist crisis and the immolation of Thích Quảng Đức in 1963.

Time reported that prior to the self-immolation incident, many Chinese had felt that Falun Gong posed no real threat, and that the state's crackdown had gone too far.