He had promised Aphrodite a hecatomb, a sacrifice of 100 oxen, if he won Helen, but forgot about it, and earned her wrath. |
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In reaction to this judicial hecatomb, opposition to killing by the state has also grown. |
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We might be tempted to question the legacy of such a hecatomb, followed 21 years later by the Second World War. |
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The desire to limit substantially the hecatomb among laboratory animals is serving to shed the spotlight on progress in in vitro tests. |
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Half a century ago the need to construct peace was patently obvious to those who had witnessed the hecatomb of the Second World War. |
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It is, without any doubt, the main cause of the hecatomb which was going to follow within the next 6 to 7 minutes. |
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Luxembourg's Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the European Union is beginning in a context made fragile by the hecatomb caused by the Asian tsunami. |
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In this hecatomb along the minor rivers of Flanders and Picardy, the British peoplelost the cream of their working class and the flower of their aristocracy. |
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What are the stories behind this hecatomb? |
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In Conquest's opinion, the visceral reaction to Nazism entails a verdict that it was morally worse than Stalinism, even if its eventual hecatomb was a less colossal one. |
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