| The person who slaughters the animal is called a shochet, he has trained for many years and uses a surgically sharp knife called a chalaf to slaughter the animal. |
| The decision came after several mass slaughters of African elephants, most notably the 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter in Chad. |
| Interestingly, the former family home is now a cripplingly expensive Cotswold hotel in the Slaughters. |
| Nero sought admission into the Eleusinian mysteries, but was rejected because of the many slaughters connected with his name. |
| But sadly even bloodier subsequent slaughters proved that was not the case. |
| The military had been reticent over casualty figures during the slaughters of new militarist adventures in Grenada and Panama. |
